Coleridge's full name is samuel taylor coleridge (English: samuel taylor coleridge, 1772,10,21-1834, July 25th), an English poet, literary critic and one of the founders of English romantic literature. He spent his whole life in the shadow of poverty, disease and opium addiction, and his poems were relatively few. Despite these unfavorable factors, Coleridge insisted on writing and established his position as a major romantic poet in fantasy romantic poetry.
Lake poets is a representative of early English romanticism. It refers to a school of poetry formed by Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, three poets living in Cumberland Lake District in northern England. Wordsworth was once the poet laureate, and Southey was also named the poet laureate by the king in 18 13. Only Coleridge is not the Poet Laureate.