Young poet details low mood and disappointment in love in 1795 letter, written not long before he met Wordsworth
He would go on to write The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, two of the greatest English poems.
But in a letter written when he was 22, Samuel Taylor Coleridge revealed he was contemplating packing it all in and fading into obscurity.
The letter, which is being offered for sale by the London rare books and manuscripts dealer Bernard Quaritch, details his low mood and disappointment in love, and appears to allude to an opium addiction.
The young Coleridge writes he is finishing a work of “consequence”, believed to be his long philosophical-political poem Religious Musings.
