Cole·ridge  (kōl'rĭj, kō'lə-rĭj)  British poet and critic who was a leader of the romantic movement. With William Wordsworth he published Lyrical Ballads (1798), which contains "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," his best-known poem. |
An English author of the early nineteenth century. Coleridge was a leader of romanticism; his poems include “Kubla Khan” and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”