Abstract: As an initiator of Romantic movement in Britain, S. T. Coleridge’s aesthetics was deeply influenced by Kant’s philosophy. What we can see in the Biographia Literaria, however, is merely an eclectic assimilation. Coleridge thoroughly negates his own radical thought of Jacobinism and integrates Kant’s metaphysical principles of moral theology with his own faith. Such an electic assimilation leads him back to the Church of England and formulates his own notion of “oneness,” which became a strong influence on the Romanticism in England and the Transcendentalism in America.

Key words: Coleridge, Kant, Biographia Literaria, metaphysics, religious return