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Influenced by Plato's Republic , they constructed a vision of pantisocracy equal government by all , which involved emigrating to the New World with ten other families to set up a commune on the banks of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania.
Coleridge and Southey envisioned the men sharing the workload, a great library, philosophical discussions, and freedom of religious and political beliefs. After finally visiting Wales, Coleridge returned to England to find that Southey had become engaged to a woman named Edith Fricker. As marriage was an integral part of the plan for communal living in the New World, Coleridge decided to marry another Fricker daughter, Sarah. Coleridge wed in , in spite of the fact that he still loved Mary Evans, who was engaged to another man.
Coleridge's marriage was unhappy and he spent much of it apart from his wife. During that period, Coleridge and Southey collaborated on a play titled The Fall of Robespierre While the pantisocracy was still in the planning stages, Southey abandoned the project to pursue his legacy in law.
Left without an alternative plan, Coleridge spent the next few years beginning his career as a writer. He never returned to Cambridge to finish his degree. In Coleridge befriended William Wordsworth , who greatly influenced Coleridge's verse. Coleridge, whose early work was celebratory and conventional, began writing in a more natural style.
The following year, Coleridge published his first volume of poetry, Poems on Various Subjects , and began the first of ten issues of a liberal political publication entitled The Watchman. From to he lived near Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, in Somersetshire.
In the two men collaborated on a joint volume of poetry entitled Lyrical Ballads. The collection is considered the first great work of the Romantic school of poetry and contains Coleridge's famous poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. That autumn the two poets traveled to the Continent together. While there he mastered the German language and began translating.
When he returned to England in , he settled with family and friends at Keswick. Over the next two decades Coleridge lectured on literature and philosophy, wrote about religious and political theory, spent two years on the island of Malta as a secretary to the governor in an effort to overcome his poor health and his opium addiction, and lived off of financial donations and grants.
Still addicted to opium, he moved in with the physician James Gillman in In , he published Biographia Literaria , which contained his finest literary criticism. The poems are arranged chronologically, showing how attitudes to landscape have shifted through the centuries.
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