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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(1772-1834), Poet

Sitter in 10 portraits
As a youth, the poet Coleridge was a radical inspired by the French Revolution. With Robert Southey he planned to emigrate to America to establish a 'pantisocratic' society of equals. In 1798, his collaboration with William Wordsworth culminated in Lyrical Ballads which, with Wordsworth's later 'Preface' (1800), became a manifesto for revolutionary poetics. Coleridge's most successful poems include the visionary Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), Frost at Midnight (1798) and Kubla Khan (1816). Later in life he was largely responsible for introducing the English-speaking world to the philosophy of German-Idealism.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

by Peter Vandyke
oil on canvas, 1795
NPG 192

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

by Robert Hancock
black, red and brown chalk and pencil, 1796
NPG 452

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

by Washington Allston
oil on canvas, 1814
NPG 184

'New morality; - or - the promis'd installment of the high-priest of the Theophilanthropes, with the homage of Leviathan and his suite'

by James Gillray, published by John Wright
etching, published 1 August 1798
NPG D13093

'New morality; - or - the promis'd installment of the high-priest of the Theophilanthropes, with the homage of Leviathan and his suite'

by James Gillray, published by John Wright
hand-coloured etching, published 1 August 1798
NPG D13094

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

by Unknown artist
stipple and line engraving, circa 1798
NPG D13985

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

by William Say, published by Marseille Middleton Holloway, after James Northcote
mezzotint, published 2 November 1840
NPG D32122

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

by William Say, published by Marseille Middleton Holloway, after James Northcote
mezzotint, published 2 November 1840
NPG D19942

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

by Samuel Cousins, after Washington Allston
mezzotint, published 1854
NPG D34029

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

by Samuel Cousins, after Washington Allston
mezzotint, published 1854
NPG D34030

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