Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the primary leaders, poets, and philosophers of the 19th-century English Romantic movement. In collaboration with his close friend William Wordsworth, he initiated the Romantic era in English literature through the publication of 'Lyrical Ballads' in 1798. Coleridge is famous for his extraordinary coordination of supernatural subject matter and power of imagination, the finest examples of which are 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'Kubla Khan'. Besides poetry, he was also a highly intellectual critic; his distinction between 'Fancy' and 'Imagination' in the work 'Biographia Literaria' is still considered unique in literary theory.
