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

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

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

Even in 1801 we can still catch Coleridge resolving that ‘before my thirtieth year I will thoroughly understand the whole of Newton’s works.’

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton