Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), poet and essayist. Son of a Devonshire vicar, Coleridge was educated at Christ's Hospital School in London and at Jesus College, Cambridge. On meeting Southey in 1794, Coleridge began a life-long association and friendship with a circle of poets and writers known as the 'Lake Poets', especially after Coleridge himself moved to the Lake District to be near Wordsworth in 1800, although he eventually returned to London. The publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 with Wordsworth precipitated a revolution in literary taste, with both writers subsequently acknowledged as progenitors of English Romanticism (see Ruskin and Coleridge).