Oct. 21: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet

BORN OCTOBER 21:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English poet and philosopher known for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (which gave us the idiom "an albatross around one's neck") and Kubla Khan (the result of an opium-induced dream)

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