Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A Different Traveler
Like many of his contemporaries, Samuel Coleridge was interested in travel and travel books he read about exotic strangers in faraway places. As a young man he even joined a group planning a utopian settlement in the United States. The scheme was abandoned, staying in England living in the countryside where he attracted friends including the poet William Wordsworth and his sister
Dorothy to join him. One of the most brilliant scholars and thinkers of his day
One of his best known poems, The Rime of the ancient mariner is describing a strange and ter- ifying voyage to the edge of the earth. Like some earlier travel adventures it is a fantastical work, but