Samuel Taylor “Estese” Coleridge was born in Ottery St. Mary on October 21, 1772 as the son of a clergyman. From 1791 to 1794 he attended the University of Cambridge, except for a period when he was in debt and joined the army. His brother George got him discharged by reason of insanity, so he went back to Cambridge where he met Robert Southey. Through him, he married Sara Fricker, who was Roberts’s fiancé’s sister. The two were married, but Robert and Coleridge began to argue over their Pantisocracy, or their utopian society, and they split up,
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