Coleridge

American

[kohl-rij] / ˈkoʊl rɪdʒ /

noun

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

Coleridge British

/ ˈkəʊlərɪdʒ /

noun

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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Coleridgian adjective

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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

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

This year, as he prepares to lead the No. 2 Buckeyes against No. 5 Notre Dame in the season opener on Saturday, Coleridge Bernard Stroud IV is a boss.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 29, 2022

The Coleridge poem gave me yet a new idea about writing.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

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