William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) were close friends and the founding poets of English Romanticism. Wordsworth, later Poet Laureate, wrote of nature and memory, while Coleridge, a critic and philosopher as well as a poet, gave the movement 'Kubla Khan' and 'The Ancient Mariner.'