Who is considered as the high priest of the English romantic movement
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Romanticism was a literary movement that began in eighteenth century in response to the Enlightenment age which was heavily influenced by logic and truth.
Coleridge emerged as one of the greatest Romantic poet in disregard who wrote poems filled with imaginative imagery treating nature as an entity that is mysterious and deep. He wrote major poem of the century including Kubla Khan, The Rime of Ancient Mariner etc.
For his extraordinary works, Saintsbury called him “the high priest of Romanticism.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was considered as the high priest of the English Romantic Movement.
The era of romanticism started in the eighteenth century with most of the writers doing romantic work.
Works of the era are widely acclaimed by writers even today and inspiration is drawn from those works by writers.