Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on 21 October 1772 at Ottery St Mary in Devon, the youngest child of the vicar John Coleridge. After his father's death he was sent to Christ's Hospital in London, where Charles Lamb became his lifelong friend. At Cambridge he fell into debt, briefly enlisted in the dragoons under a false name, and left without a degree. With Robert Southey he dreamed of a utopian community in America and married Sara Fricker. In 1797-98, living near William Wordsworth in Somerset, he wrote his greatest poems, and the two published Lyrical Ballads in 1798. Illness and a growing dependence on opium darkened the following years, but he lectured brilliantly on Shakespeare and published Biographia Literaria in 1817. From 1816 he lived with the physician James Gillman at Highgate, where he wrote Aids to Reflection and became a sage to younger thinkers. He died there on 25 July 1834.

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Faith: Son of an Anglican vicar; a Unitarian preacher in his twenties, he returned to Trinitarian Anglican Christianity and became an influential Christian philosopher through works such as Aids to Reflection (1825). Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica

See also: William Wordsworth · Lord Byron · Robert Burns · Percy Bysshe Shelley