Suspension of disbelief or willing suspension of disbelief is a term coined in 1817 by the poet and aesthetic philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who suggested that if a writer could infuse a " human interest and a semblance of truth " into a fantastic tale, the reader would suspend judgment concerning the implausibility of the narrative.

The term unconscious mind was coined by the 18th century German romantic philosopher Friedrich Schelling and later introduced into English by the poet and essayist Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

The term unconscious mind was coined by the 18th century German romantic philosopher Friedrich Schelling and later introduced into English by the poet and essayist Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Before the Romantics, Shakespeare was simply the most admired of all dramatic poets, especially for his insight into human nature and his realism, but Romantic critics such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge refactored him into an object of almost religious adoration or " bardolatry " ( from bard + λατρεία, Greek for worship — a word coined by George Bernard Shaw ), who towered above mere mortal writers, and whose plays were to be worshipped as not " merely great works of art " but as " phenomena of nature, like the sun and the sea, the stars and the flowers " and " with entire submission of our own faculties " ( Thomas de Quincey, 1823 ).

* Samuel Taylor Coleridge publishes Biographia Literaria.

In Biographia Literaria XIV, Coleridge writes:

* Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Shakespeare's Judgment Equal to His Genius, On the Principles of Genial Criticism, The Statesman's Manual, Biographia Literaria

The technique appears in English Romantic poetry, particularly in the poetry of Wordsworth, and was defined in the following way by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in his Biographia Literaria: " To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood ; to combine the child ’ s sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for perhaps forty years had rendered familiar.

# Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Poems ; Biographia Literaria

A thorough record of Christ's Hospital in Several essays by Lamb as well as the Autobiography of Leigh Hunt and the Biographia Literaria of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with whom Charles developed a friendship that would last for their entire lives.

To these she added some compositions of her own, among which are the Essay on Rationalism, with a special application to the Doctrine of Baptismal Regeneration, appended to Coleridge's Aids to Reflection, a Preface to the Essays on his Own Times, by S. T. Coleridge, and the Introduction to the Biographia Literaria.

There is also a plaque on the wall of the house where Samuel Taylor Coleridge stayed from 1814 to 1816 as part of the Morgan household whilst writing his Biographia Literaria.

Biographia Literaria, or in full Biographia Literaria ; or Biographical Sketches of MY LITERARY LIFE and OPINIONS, is an autobiography in discourse by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which he published in 1817.

In his Biographia Literaria, Coleridge alludes to Cottle as ‘ a friend from whom I never received any advice that was not wise, or a remonstrance that was not gentle and affectionate .’ Cottle died at Fairfield House, Bristol, 7 June 1853.

Kubla Khan () is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, completed in 1797 and published in 1816.

Coleridge described how he wrote the poem in the preface to his collection of poems, Christabel, Kubla Khan, and the Pains of Sleep, published in 1816:

The collection of poems was published 25 May 1816, and Coleridge included " A Fragment " as a subtitle to the 54 line version of the poem to defend against criticism of the poem's incomplete nature.

Before the poem was published, it was greatly favoured by Byron, who encouraged Coleridge to publish the poem, and it was admired by many people including Walter Scott.

In April 1861, the group published the first sample pages ; later that month, the thirty year old Coleridge died of tuberculosis.

It was posthumously titled and published, prior to which it was generally known as the poem " to Coleridge ".

His widow Mary published his lengthy autobiographical " poem to Coleridge " as The Prelude several months after his death.

* September 18 – Lyrical Ballads is published anonymously by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, inaugurating the English Romantic movement in literature.

* Samuel Taylor Coleridge — Kubla Khan ( published 1816 )

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ( originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere ) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797 – 98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads.

After experimenting with a writing partnership with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, most notably with the joint composition of The Fall of Robespierre, he published his first collection of poems in 1794.

In September 2006, Oxford University Press published an English, blank-verse translation of Goethe's work entitled Faustus, From the German of Goethe, now widely believed to be the production of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Between 1835 and 1849, Tait's published a series of De Quincey's reminiscences of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Robert Southey, and other figures among the Lake Poets — a series that taken together constitutes one of his most important works.

The Romantic period is especially associated with the poets William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Byron, Percy Shelley and John Keats, though two major novelists, Jane Austen and Walter Scott also published in the early 19th century.

Coleridge described how he wrote the poem in the preface to his collection of poems, Christabel, Kubla Khan, and the Pains of Sleep, published in 1816:

In 1808 he published The Simpliciad, this satirical poem was addressed in verse to William Wordsworth, Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with notes relating to his parodies and allusions to the originals.

In 1857 he published Modern Anglican Theology, an acute criticism of the writings of Coleridge, Hare, Maurice, Kingsley and Jowett.

He published the works of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey and Scott, and acted as London agent for the Edinburgh Review, which was started in 1802.

Stephen Coleridge anonymously published Terry's second autobiography, The Heart of Ellen Terry in 1928.

Henry Nelson Coleridge, William Sidney Walker, and John Moultrie were the three best known of his collaborators on this periodical, which was published by Charles Knight, and of which details are given in Knight's Autobiography and in Henry Maxwell Lyte's Eton College.

A complete edition of his poems was published in two volumes in 1876, with a memoir, by Derwent Coleridge.

* Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth-Lyrical Ballads ( published anonymously )

It has been suggested by Elisabeth Schneider ( in Coleridge, Opium and " Kubla Khan ", University of Chicago Press, 1953 ), amongst others, that this prologue, as well as the Person from Porlock, was in fact fictional and intended as a credible explanation of the poem's seemingly fragmentary state as published.

In 1789 he published, in a very small quarto volume, Fourteen Sonnets, which were received with extraordinary favour, not only by the general public, but by such men as Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Wordsworth.

" The next review came in the January 1817 Monthly Review, with the anonymous reviewer questioning: " Allowing every possible accuracy to the statement of Mr. Coleridge, we would yet ask him whether this extraordinary fragment was not rather the effect of rapid and instant composition after he was awake, than of memory immediately recording that which he dreamt when asleep?

In 1817 the poet, aesthetic philosopher and critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge came to live in the Highgate home of Dr James Gillman in order to rehabilitate from his desperate opium addiction.

Initially the project was part of transitional arrangements in 1817 under which Samuel Taylor Coleridge moved publisher, from John Mathew Gutch to Rest Fenner, working with the Rev.

Coleridge was offered the role of editor ; he wrote the Introduction, which appeared in January 1818, brought out to compete with the fifth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica which had appeared in 1817 in 20 volumes.

The Chandos portrait, commonly assumed to depict William Shakespeare, " the man who of all Modern, and perhaps Ancient Poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul " ( John Dryden, 1668 ), " our myriad-minded Shakespeare " ( Samuel Taylor Coleridge | S. T. Coleridge, 1817 ).