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

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

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

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

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers