The longest major poem by renowned English poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, tells of a wedding guest who is intercepted on his way to the ceremony by an old mariner. The mariner engages the guest with an incredible tale of a fateful sea journey, the story of which he is compelled to relate.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) was born in Ottery, UK. A poet, philosopher, theologian, and literary critic, he was seminal to the development of the Romantic Movement, along with his friend William Wordsworth. Coleridge contributed to English Literature with many works, including the famous “Kubla Khan” and “Frost At Midnight”. He died in Highgate, London.View all by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
