One of the major figures of English Romanticism Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) created works of remarkable diversity and imaginative genius. The period of his creative friendship with William Wordsworth inspired some of his best-known poems from " "Rime of the Ancient Mariner " " " "Kubla Khan " "to " "Dejection An Ode " "and the ballad " "Christabel "".One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) created works of remarkable diversity and imaginative genius. The period of his creative friendship with William Wordsworth inspired some of Coleridge's best-known poems, from the nightmarish vision of the'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and the opium-inspired'Kubla Khan' to the sombre passion of'Dejection: An Ode' and the medieval ballad'Christabel'. His meditative'conversation' poems, such as'Frost at Midnight' and'This Lime-Tree Bower Mr Prison', reflect on remembrance and solitude, while late works, such as'Youth and Age' and'Constancy to an Ideal Object', are haunting meditations on mortality and lost love.