Colerıdge'ın radikal kişiliği ve güney batı topluluğu

Although radical thoughts of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of the “Big Six” pioneers of Romantic era in British Literature and his effects over the refinement of the eighteen-century English society have been widely discussed, not much attention has been drawn into the underlying backdrop and principal grounds that he founded his anomalous ideas on. Even though some critical studies shed some light on his relationships with the marginal communities in Bristol, there is still much to say about the intellectual development of a genius mind. In this respect, this paper aims to address how Coleridge’s main ideas such as pantisocracy, Unitarianism and political radicalism were shaped, what drove him to adopt such radical opinions, and what role the Dissenting circle in Bristol played in shaping Coleridge’s intellectual mind. To do so, the present study first presents a brief introduction to Coleridge’s biography, focusing on significant turning points that shaped his radical personality and thoughts. Then, the study examines the social, theological and political thoughts of this genius poet who had a great influence on British Romanticism