Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an English poet and philosopher who was one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England. Coleridge was also a major influence on Ralph Waldo Emerson. Coleridge's best known poem is The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Coleridge also wrote the famous autobiography Biographia Literaria, a collection of Coleridge's biographical sketches about his life.