The Poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Hugely influential co-founder of the Romantic movement in England

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on October 21st, 1772 in Ottery St Mary in Devon.

As a child he was an early and devoted reader and, after being schooled at Christ's Hospital, a charity school, he attended, from 1791, Jesus College, Cambridge and the following year won the Browne Gold Medal for an ode on the slave trade.

He was great friends with the poet Robert Southey, indeed they formed a plan, soon abandoned, in 1795, to found a utopian commune-like society, called Pantisocracy, in the w...