Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 1772 - 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. (http: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge) Peter G. Stocker is an elementary and high school teacher living in Coquitlam, BC Canada