ABSTRACT
On April 9, 2018, The Guardian broke the story that “the remains of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge have been rediscovered in a wine cellar”. The condition of Coleridge’s entombment hardly befits the dignity of the man, but it offers an eerily appropriate analogy for his reception after his death. Moreover, Coleridge’s religious identity bore many of the marks of a broader Evangelical “culture.” A survey of Coleridge’s biography provides greater insight into the lines of causation that led to his developing a religious identity with so much in common with Anglican Evangelicals. The real chasm between Coleridge and the mainstream of Anglican Evangelicalism begins to open more clearly when we look at some of his doctrinal positions. In response, Coleridge angerly responded, “A plague on that man’s religion who would starve his neighbour’s nose in order to save his soul”.
