Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont & Fletcher

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on October 21st, 1772 in Ottery St Mary, Devon, England. As a young child he was an early and devoted reader, having no time for play or sports. After his father died in 1781, 8-year-old Samuel was sent to Christ's Hospital, a charity school founded in the 16th century in Greyfriars, London, where he remained throughout childhood, studying and writing poetry. From 1791 Coleridge attended Jesus College, Cambridge and in 1792, he won the Browne Gold Medal for an od