Coleridge

American  

[kohl-rij] / ˈkoʊl rɪdʒ /

noun

1. Samuel Taylor, 1772–1834, English poet, critic, and philosopher.

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Coleridge British  

/ ˈkəʊlərɪdʒ /

noun

1. Samuel Taylor. 1772–1834, English Romantic poet and critic, noted for poems such as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), Kubla Khan (1816), and Christabel (1816), and for his critical work Biographia Literaria (1817)

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• Coleridgian
  adjective

Example Sentences

Mr. Holmes shows how the unstable and morose Tennyson, born in the wild Romantic age of Byron, Coleridge and Shelley, grew into the settled and self-satisfied voice of Victorian England.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

For a minute, the film seems to invoke Samuel Coleridge: “Death came with friendly care.”

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2025

The syllabus is much like what one might expect from an undergraduate English course, with texts by William Wordsworth, Willa Cather and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 1, 2023

A minister in the years before his arrest, Coleridge would often tell CJ that “comparison is the thief of joy.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2023

He lifts an opinion from Coleridge, takes something else from Frye or Empson or Leavis.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez