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At Jesus College, Coleridge was introduced to political and theological ideas then considered [[Radical politics|radical]], including those of the poet [[Robert Southey]] with whom he collaborated on the play ''[[The Fall of Robespierre]]''. Coleridge joined Southey in a plan, later abandoned, to found a [[utopia]]n [[Commune (intentional community)|commune]]-like society, called [[Pantisocracy]], in the wilderness of Pennsylvania.
In 1795, the two friends marriedbecame engaged to sisters Sara and Edith Fricker, in [[St Mary Redcliffe]], Bristol,.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.stmaryredcliffe.co.uk/Chatterton.htm | title=Chatterton | publisher=St Mary Redcliffe | access-date=17 January 2011 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110703085810/http://www.stmaryredcliffe.co.uk/Chatterton.htm | archive-date=3 July 2011 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> Sara was the subject of Coleridge's poem, ''[[The Eolian Harp]]''. They wed that year, but Coleridge's marriage with Sara proved unhappy. By 1804, they were separated. When Coleridge wrote to his brother he laid all the blame on Sara: "The few friends who have been Witnesses of my domestic life have long advised separation as the necessary condition of everything desirable for me..." Subsequent biographers have not agreed with Coleridge's negative view of the wife he called his 'Sally Pally' when he first married her.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lefebure |first1=Molly |title=The bondage of love: a life of Mrs Samuel Taylor Coleridge |date=1987 |publisher=Norton |location=New York |isbn=9780393024432 |edition=Repr., 1. American }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Lefebure |first1=Molly |title=Private lives of the ancient mariner: Coleridge and his children |date=2013 |publisher=Lutterworth Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0718893002 }}</ref>
A third sister, Mary, had already married a third poet, [[Robert Lovell]], and both became partners in Pantisocracy. Lovell also introduced Coleridge and Southey to their future patron [[Joseph Cottle]], but died of a fever in April 1796. Coleridge was with him at his death.
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