High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "To Lord Stanhope" was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and published in his 1796 collection of poems. The subject, Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope, was an individual that Coleridge shared many political beliefs with but slowly separated from him intellectually. By 1803, Coleridge was claiming that he did not want the poem published anymore and that it was originally intended to mock those who held the beliefs Coleridge held years earlier. It is part of the Sonnets on Eminent Characters series, although it was not published in the Morning Chronicle unlike the others in the series. There is, however, a possible predecessor sonnet to the 1796 version that some editors have attributed to Coleridge.