“Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good…” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events; just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.”

Insisting that poetic elevation rests on a foundation of sound sense · Table Talk, 9 May 1830

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

About Samuel Taylor Coleridge

21 October 1772–25 July 1834

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on 21 October 1772 in Ottery St Mary, Devon, and died on 25 July 1834 at Highgate, near London. He occupies an unusual and commanding place in English literary history: he was at once one of the makers of Romantic poetry, a revolutionary critic of Shakespeare and poetic language, a…

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