The English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was entertaining a visitor one day when the conversation turned to raising children. The visitor said, “I believe that children should be given ...

to a wedding-feast, and detaineth one. It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. `By thy long beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me? The Bridegroom's doors are ...

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) was a British composer who studied at the Royal College of Music and had early success at Gloucester Festival with his 1898 ‘Ballade in A Minor’. Named after the ...

In an 1818 lecture, on the subject of “Hamlet,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge had this to say: Persons conversant in deeds of cruelty contrive to escape from conscience by connecting something of ...

Instead of the cross, the albatross About my neck was hung. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” I commend to your attention the recent confirmation hearings of ...

A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled ...

Taylor's 'The Atonement' returns to Canadian audiences after over a century on March 22 at Yorkminster Park Baptist Church ...

An albatross is a seabird with a deep history as a literary metaphor, with roots in Samuel Taylor (Taylor, get it?) Coleridge's poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." The lengthy poem was ...

Collect rainwater in a water butt! Plants love fresh rainwater, and you save loads on your water bill. It’s a win-win! Sweep ...

Tamara Hinson visits Clevedon on the Severn Estuary's eastern shore The town inspired poets Alfred Tennyson and Samuel Taylor Coleridge READ MORE: Britain's best railway station named in 'World ...

On a pillar in Poets' Corner Westminster Abbey is a bust in memory of poet and critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The inscription reads: S. T. Coleridge. Born Oct 21. 1772. Died July 25. 1834 The bust is ...