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Coleridge

Coleridge

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An English Romantic poet famous for 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'
  • proper noun
  • /ˈkoʊlərɪdʒ/
: Coleridge
  • Vallins argues that Coleridge examines the constructs of consciousness and mental functioning more deeply than any of his contemporaries.
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Coleridge and Wordsworth
  • Coleridge's Ode

And you know, Descartes comes up again later on as well in when she's praising Coleridge.

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Examples

  • I only want to discuss Dante and Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Coleridge and Goethe.

    Possession (2002)

  • The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge was once asked why he attended so many chemistry lectures.

  • His position here is similar to that of S.T. Coleridge: every state should have an established religion, whatever that may be.

    Academic text (1999)

  • "Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink," wrote Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

    Academic text (2002)

  • I believe in what the great poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge thought were the cardinal rules of early education.

    Women Talking (2022)

  • Indeed, we find Wordsworth himself congratulating Coleridge on his awareness of this fact.

    Academic text (1997)

  • I am ravished by the beauty of the great pagoda, like that "stately pleasure dome" Coleridge imagined.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge reported that he felt a pleasurable sensation of warmth, the desire to laugh, and an increased heartbeat.

  • Coleridge provides a dynamic example of fancy's "excursions" in a 1799 entry of his Notebooks.

    Academic text (2017)

  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge is celebrated for his influential poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."

Synonyms

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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An English poet from the Romantic period, known for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan

uses only the family name as a shorter reference

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Coleridge likely comes from an old English place name made of coal and ridge, meaning 'a ridge where coal or charcoal was found'. So it began as a family or place name, which is why we use Coleridge to refer to the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.