Poems. With a Critical and Biographical Introduction by Hamilton W. Mabie, and a Frontispiece in Color by W.J. Aylward. A Book Lover’s Library of Poetical Literature : In twenty-five volumes

His most notable poems were inspired by William Wordsworth - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) and Kubla Khan. Yet in addition to being an English poet, Coleridge was an essayist and critic, who wrote the finest book of literary criticism of the Romantic period, the Biographia Literaria (1817). Prior to collaborating with Wordsworth in Lyrical Ballads, he and Robert Southey developed a utopian scheme called the Pantisocracy. Apparently for financial and personal reasons, it failed to meet the status which the creators had hoped for it.