Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher
who, with his friend William Wordsworth,
was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England.Throughout his adult life Coleridge had crippling bouts of anxiety and depression. He was physically unhealthy, which may have stemmed from a bout of rheumatic fever and other childhood illnesses. He was treated for these conditions with laudanum, which fostered a lifelong opium addiction.
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