Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an important English Romantic poet born in 1772. He was influenced by French Revolutionary ideals in his youth but later became disillusioned. He collaborated with William Wordsworth on Lyrical Ballads, which included his famous poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Coleridge distinguished between primary imagination, a fusion of perception and image production, and secondary imagination, the poetic faculty that builds new worlds. He believed nature carried abstract meaning through its images but did not identify nature with the divine. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" tells the story of a mariner who is cursed after killing an albatross and is forced to wander telling his story. Written in