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The first chapter of a book by this author prints three parodic sonnets by his alter ego Nehemiah Higgenbottom to illustrate his appreciation for William Lisle Bowles. That book by this author proposes an “esemplastic power” to counter the theories of David Hartley, after whom this author named his son. This author and his less-acclaimed brother-in-law examined the Susquehanna River as a location for a failed commune they called “Pantisocracy.” This author distinguished (*) imagination from fancy and encouraged “suspension of disbelief” in his book (10[1])Biographia (10[1])Literaria. This poet’s time living in the Lake District (-5[1])inspired (10[1])many of his “conversation poems.” An opium-addled dream inspired a poem (10[1])by this author that was interrupted by a “person from Porlock.” For 10 points, name this Romantic poet of “Kubla Khan.” ■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Coleridge’s brother-in-law was Robert Southey.)
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