Samuel Taylor Coleridge

             Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey “planned to establish and ideal democrat community in America.”  Coleridge went from being a radical to a conservative.  Coleridge collaborated with William Wordsworth and finished some of his poems, after Wordsworth’s death.  He was “repeatedly charged with gross plagiarism” and struggled with an opium addiction.  His friends thought he lacked “applications and staying power,” but had “great promise.”  Mary Shelley was a fan of his work and used one of his stanzas in her book, Frankenstein.  He wrote about political and gothic subjects.