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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in collaboration with his friend William CLIPPER
Wordsworth, revolutionised English poetry; in 1798 they produced
their Lyrical Ballads, poems of imagination and reflection using ‘the
language of men’. They pointed the way forward for a generation
of Romantic poets.
Coleridge’s addiction to opium affected his poetic output,
and yet the handful of poems he did produce were innovative.
These ranged from the quietly conversational to the wildly
imagined, and include two of the greatest in English literature:
Kubla Khan and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.