Coleridge was a poet of imagination. Born in Devon in 1772, he believed that the mind could not give or receive feelings from nature. Instead, he thought that the mind should already be filled with the pleasure and happiness it needs in order to enjoy the presence of nature. In his works, natural speech, straightforward themes, emotion over reason, and experiences of natural beauty over industrialization were strongly brought out as the underlining idea. These tenants above are the basis of the Romantic era, and nevertheless, seem to coincide with Wordsworth's ideas.

Coleridge was a poet of mind, and thus envying the supernatural. In his two poems, "Frost at Midnight" and "Kubla Khan," he connected the relationship between nature and the human mind. In "Frost at Midnight," the speaker, Coleridge, is said to be the only one awake at the cottage. He is left...