Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Coleridge and his friend, the poet Robert Southey, wanted to form a utopian community in Pennsylvania, where everyone would own property in common and share labor evenly. It never happened, although Coleridge ended up in a fairly terrible marriage to Southey's wife's sister. (Source.)
Coleridge and Wordsworth were great friends, and major influences on each other's poetry. However, Wordsworth caused a temporary rupture in the friendship when he privately attacked Coleridge for abusing drugs and alcohol. (Source.)
In his later years, Coleridge turned from poetry to theology, writing extensively on religion, and trying to reconcile cutting-edge German Idealist philosophy with Christianity. (Source.)
Coleridge's son, Hartley (the baby in "Frost at Midnight"), actually went on to live a fairly troubled existence. He did spend a lot of time in Nature, but became estranged from his family for a while and struggled with alcoholism for virtually the rest of his life. (Source.)