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Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in 1772. The son of a Devonshire vicar, he was orphaned at eight years old and sent to a charitable boarding school. He went on to Cambridge University, enlisted briefly in the army, and then with fellow poet Robert Southey planned to form a utopian community (called ‘Pantisocracy’) in the wilds of Pennsylvania. The friends had married sisters, Sara and Edith Fricker, but Coleridge’s marriage was unhappy from the beginning.
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