The Watchman was a short-lived periodical established and edited by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla...

in 1796.

The first number was promised for 5 February 1796 but actually appeared on 1 March. It ceased publication with its tenth number (published 13 May 1796). The publication contained essays, poems, news stories, reports on Parliamentary debates, and book reviews.

Further reading

• Lewis Patton (ed.) The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 2: The Watchman, Bollingen series: 75, 1970. ISBN 978-0-691-09719-0