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

• Coleridgian
  adjective

Example Sentences

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Coleridge

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

Maintaining a semblance of truth, as Samuel Taylor Coleridge pointed out in the context of poetry, was necessary to procure “that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025

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

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2025

She quotes William Wordsworth — “There hath past away a glory from the earth” — as a call to action and Samuel Taylor Coleridge as seeing “the divine as inseparable from nature.”

From Washington Post ● May 1, 2023

This second meaning we owe to the poetic license of Mr. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, whose famous poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner contained just such a creature.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood