Coleridge and the Church of England

Abstract

Consideration of Coleridge’s relationship with the Church of England could quite appropriately begin, of course, shortly after his birth, with his baptism in the village church of Ottery St. Mary. For this was the beginning of a bond — spiritual, intellectual and emotional — which was to be at the centre of his life for most of the next sixty-two years. Indeed, as a boy he was assumed to be destined for a career in the Church. However, since Coleridge’s upbringing (initially under the tutelage of his vicar father, John Coleridge) was unexceptionably Anglican, and since his flirtation with Unitarianism is treated by H. W. Piper in this volume, we may begin with his return from Unitarianism to Trinitarian orthodoxy in 1805, during his sojourn in Malta.

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