Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher who was, along with his friend 
William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and one of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems 
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and 
Kubla Khan, as well as his major prose work 
Biographia Literaria.