Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 1875-1912, English composer. He studied violin and composition at the Royal College of Music in London. He wrote many songs, orchestral works, piano pieces, and some chamber music but is best known for his cantatas, particularly the Hiawatha trilogy (1898-1900) and A Tale of Old Japan (1911).

Bibliography: See J. F. Coleridge-Taylor, Genius and Musician (1943).

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772–1834), English poet, critic, and philosopher, author of several plays in verse, one of which, Remorse, written in 1797 as Osorio, was produced at Drury Lane in 1813 with moderate success. The others, which include several translations from the German, remained unacted, except for a Christmas entertainment which, with alterations by Dibdin, was produced in 1818. Coleridge's chief importance in theatre history lies in his critical and editorial work on Shakespeare, though he was handicapped by ignorance of Elizabethan stage conditions, which the Shakespearian scholar Malone was only just bringing to light.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772–1834). Poet and thinker. Born at Ottery St Mary in Devon, he studied (somewhat chaotically) at Cambridge where he met William Wordsworth. With him he published Lyrical Ballads in 1798. Already he had, with Robert Southey, attempted to set up a communal society, Pantisocracy, putting into practice the ideals of the French Revolution. In 1798, he went to Germany to study Kant, and came under the influence of Schiller and Goethe. On his return he lectured and wrote. In religion he represents the Romantic reaction against both rationalism and dogmatic religious systems, seeing the heart of religion in human religious need. He is sometimes called the ‘father of the Broad Church’.