“No state can be such properly, which is not self-subsistent at least; for no state that is not so, is essentially independent.”
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…