Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) is one of the great figures in English literature. Although his poetic output was small, it included such masterpieces as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel, and 'Kubla Khan', and it is immortal. His friendship with Wordsworth, which resulted in the Lyrical Ballads of 1798; he Biographia Literaria, his recorded conversation; the immense range of his thought, have been the source of continued and rewarding study. Kathleen Raine shows in her survey of Coleridge's life and work how living and fecund are many of his ideas.