It’s a trope that’s as old as the written word: the brilliant artist whose creative genius is intricately tied to substance abuse—or so the genius usually believes. For Hemingway, it was alcohol; for ...

“The problem isn’t that the government is broken,” Greg Coleridge says, whipping out one of many activist slogans he’s been repeating so long they’re inextricably threaded into the fabric of his ...

Break-ups had happened before of course. Henry VIII's split from the Vatican comes to mind, or Socrates' spat with the Athenian state, but this is the break-up over which we still take sides. Even ...

No writer has had as much ink spilled in the interpretation of his works only to remain so woefully undervalued in the popular imagination as Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Despite co-creating English ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge is best known for the “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” a doozy of a poem that includes spirits, zombies and, of course, a rotting albatross. As it turns out, since the English ...

In honor of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who died 174 years ago today, we present to you Kenneth Burke’s 1939 essay lauding Coleridge as a great champion of idealism. Each time I note the signs of the ...

Kimberly Stroud and Coleridge Bernard Stroud III raised their four children in California Ethan Miller/Getty; Kara Durrette/Getty C.J. Stroud is the son of Kimberly Stroud and Coleridge Bernard Stroud ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 1797, Wordsworth and his adored sister Dorothy lived for a little over a year as Somerset neighbours to ...

Late Victorian London wasn't an easy place to achieve musical success if you were mixed-race and born outside of marriage, like composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Despite never setting foot in Africa, ...

Was "the person from Porlock", who interrupted Coleridge at work and is blamed for depriving the world of a epic poetic masterpiece, actually his opium dealer, meeting him by arrangement with a fresh ...

In July 1913, friends of the African British composer and conductor Samuel Coleridge-Taylor gathered in his hometown of Croydon, England, to lay a plaque on his grave in anticipation of the first ...