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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(1772-1834), Poet

Regency Portraits Catalogue Entry

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 - NPG 192

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

by Peter Vandyke
oil on canvas, circa 1795
On display in Room 17 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 192

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, by Unknown artist - NPG D13985

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 - NPG D32122

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 - NPG D19942

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 - NPG D34029

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, by Samuel Cousins, after  Washington Allston - NPG D34030

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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