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Home. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an influential poet and writer whose literary career began when he was a student at Jesus College. Samuel Taylor Coleridge was probably the most fascinating of the great English Romantic poets. He was also, as biographer Richard Holmes says:
Jesus College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college's full name is The College of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist and the glorious Virgin Saint Radegund, near Cambridge. Its common name comes from the name of its chapel, Jesus Chapel.
NameBornDiedDetails14891556Archbishop of Canterbury14951563149415541535/61606Protestant propagandistAt Jesus College, Cambridge, where Coleridge matriculated in October 1791, he composed a mass of occasional poetry. Full of the rhetorical machinery of the middling verse of the period, and often cloying in sentiment, these early poems have little in common with the work of 1795 and after, on which his reputation would be founded.
From 1791 until 1794, Coleridge attended Jesus College, Cambridge. In 1792, he won the Browne Gold Medal for an ode that he wrote attacking the slave trade.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on 21 October 1772. The youngest of 14 children, he was educated after his father's death and excelled in classics. He attended Christ's Hospital and Jesus College, Cambridge.
A brilliant student, he went up to Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1791, on a small allowance provided by his brother George.
