Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) was a founder of the English Romantic movement and a member of the Lake Poets. Although less well known than his contemporaries Wordsworth and Shelley, he created an enormously influential body of poetry and literary criticism. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is his masterpiece.

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• To the Author of 'The Robbers' [sonnet; 1794?]Sonnet: To a Friend Who Asked, How I Felt When the Nurse First Presented My Infant to Me [1796]This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison [1797]The Dungeon [1797]The Rime of the Ancient Mariner [1797-98, revised later; marginal glosses added 1815-16]On a Ruined House in a Romantic Country [No. III of 'Sonnets Attempted in the Manner of Contemporary Writers,' 1797]Christabel [Part 1, 1797; Part II, 1800; 'The Conclusion to Part II,' 1801]Frost at Midnight [1798]France: An Ode [1798]Lewti; or, The Circassian Love-Chaunt [1798]Fears in Solitude [1798]The Nightingale [1798]Kubla Khan [1798]The Ovidian Elegiac Metre [1799]Something Childish, but Very Natural [1799]Love [1799]Dejection: An Ode [1802]The Pains of Sleep [1803]To William Wordsworth [1807]The Knight's Tomb [1817?]On Donne's Poetry [1818?]Youth and Age [1823, with additions in 1832]Cologne [1828]