Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Lake Poets

 The English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge died on this day in 1834.

Along with his friend, William Wordsworth, he helped found the Romantic Movement in England and was a member of a group called the Lake Poets.
In his poem called Youth and Age, Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote,
"Flowers are lovely; Love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;"
 
 


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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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