Samuel Taylor Coleridge and an American naval hero in Malta

Abstract

It is not to be expected that in the early nineteenth century, only a short time after the . American Revolution, the English in general should have had kindly feelings or words for their kinsmen in the United States. However, there was a notable exception in the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge thin whom, according to his son Hartley, 'the Americans, as a nation, had no better friend in England; he contemplated their growth with interest, and prophesied highly of their destiny'.