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

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

A report of the investigation, overseen by Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge, had been sent to the Vatican where the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith was continuing to investigate, Costelloe said.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 19, 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 afternoon was all Wordsworth, Longfellow, and Coleridge—Turner figured Coleridge would do—and last of all, Mr. Darwin’s Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt