The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge rented the cottage for three years from 1797. As well as writing poetry he was a 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. It was while he was living in Nether Stowey that Coleridge wrote "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison", "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", part of "Christabel", and "Frost at Midnight". While writing "Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment", Coleridge was said to have been interrupted by the arrival of a "Person from Porlock". It is unclear whether this really happened or was part of a dream but has become a literary allusion for unwanted intruders who disrupt inspired creativity. During Coleridge's time at the house William Wordsworth visited him and subsequently rented Alfoxton Park, a little over away. There are references to the cottage in several of Coleridge's poems, including "To The Rev G Coleridge" (lines 52–61), "This Lime Tree Bower My Prison"; "Frost at Midnight"; and "Fears in Solitude" (lines 221–226).