“He
prayeth best, who loveth best
All
things both great and small;
For
the dear God who loveth us,
He
made and loveth all.”--Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (1798)
The
Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
was born on this date in 1772 in Devonshire, England. He had gone to Jesus
College at the University of Cambridge intending to follow his father into the
ministry of the Church of England, but while in school became fascinated by the
Unitarian Church, liberalism and poetry. His religious beliefs became
integrated into a larger philosophical system in which he suggested that a
concern for the natural world was necessary for human salvation—a belief system
that probably has the most adherents now, two centuries since the height of his
career as poet and critic.
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