Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the most influential English poets of the late 18'th and early 19'th centuries. He was born on October 21, 1772. His father died when he was about 10, and he was sent to a charity school. Coleridge attended Jesus College, Cambridge University from 1791 to 1794, except for a brief stint as a soldier, but left without a degree.
Coleridge produced a large and important body of work, although he is perhaps best known today for his famous poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan. Coleridge had a long and fruitful friendship with the poet William Wordsworth.
Coleridge was passionately interested in religion, politics, and literature. He believed strongly in the unity of mind and body in the age of Newtonian dualism. His holistic view and his love of scholarship are evident in the quote Nothing can permanently please which does not contain in itself the reason why it is so and not otherwise.