Samuel Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet and philosopher of the Romantic era, best known for "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan." His partnership with Wordsworth produced *Lyrical Ballads* (1798), a landmark of English poetry.
Coleridge also pioneered literary criticism and struggled with opium addiction throughout his life.
- XanaduLegendary pleasure palace
- opiumNarcotic from scored seedpods
- ancient marinerElderly ocean voyager
- albatrossLong-winged oceanic bird
- water snakesSemiaquatic limbless reptiles
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