Where did Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey plan to establish their utopian community?

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Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge, detail of an oil painting by Washington Allston, 1814; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the poet Robert Southey planned to establish their utopian community, which they termed a "pantisocracy," along the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania.1

The two men conceived of this project as a way to organize a small society based on principles of equal rule, aiming to avoid the violence and instability that had characterized the French Revolution. To pursue this goal, Coleridge left Cambridge and began working as a public lecturer in Bristol alongside Southey.1