Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 1772 - 25 July 1834) was an English lyrical poet, philosopher, and critic, whose Lyrical Ballads, written in 1798 with William Wordsworth, has been credited with starting the English Romantic movement. He is probably best known, however, for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan. His works also include Sybilline Leaves (1817), Biographia Literaria (1817), and The Poetical Works (1834).[1]