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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, detail of an oil painting by Washington Allston, 1814; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge died in Highgate, a location near London, on July 25, 1834. He had been living there since 1816 in the home of James Gillman, a surgeon who treated him for his opium addiction. His death was caused by heart failure exacerbated by a lung disorder.12