The English philosopher and poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834); most famous for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan. Coleridge was a member of the Lake Poets who; with his friend William Wordsworth; founded the Romantic Movement in England. He also helped introduce German idealism to English-speaking culture and was influential on American transcendentalism (via Ralph Waldo Emerson). Throughout his adult life; Coleridge suffered from crippling bouts of anxiety and depression; which he chose to treat with opium; becoming an addict in the process. He died at age 61 due to symptoms typical of prolonged opium usage.