Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge NPG 184

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Washington Allston

As a youth, the poet Coleridge was a radical inspired by the French Revolution. With Robert Southey he planned to emigrate to America to establish a 'pantisocratic' society of equals. In 1798, his collaboration with William Wordsworth culminated in Lyrical Ballads which, with Wordsworth's later 'Preface' (1800), became a manifesto for revolutionary poetics. Coleridge's most successful poems include the visionary Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), Frost at Midnight (1798) and Kubla Khan (1816). Later in life he was largely responsible for introducing... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.