Mine Own Countree Coleridge Cottage (AW37)

In 1797 Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his wife Sara moved into this humble seventeenth century cottage in the village of Nether Stowey, Somerset.
Although he only lived in what is now known as Coleridge Cottage for some three years, during that time he wrote much of his greatest poetry, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (from which the title of this picture comes), Kubla Khan and Frost at Midnight. He also collaborated with his friend William Wordsworth to produce Lyrical Ballads, regarded as the starting point for the English Romantic age.