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Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in Ottery St. Mary, England in 1772. Poet, critic, and philosopher he was one of the founders of British literary Romanticism which, among other characteristics, esteems the glory of nature above industrialisation. Inspired by Plato and his friendship with Robert Southey, Coleridge came up with the idea of developing a pantisocracy, a kind of utopian society, a form of commune, with an egalitarian government and freedom of religious and political belief for all its citizens. The poet William Wordsworth was a key figure in Coleridge's personal and literary development; an intellectual influence who inspired him to turn his efforts definitively towards writing. Coleridge travelled through Germany learning the language, studying the philogophy of Kant, Böhme and Lessing and becoming involved in the art of translation. He died isolated from public life in 1834.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Balada del viejo Marinero)