Religious Musings was composed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1794 and finished by 1796. It is one of his first poems of critical merit and contains many of his early feelings about religion and politics. Warning: template has been deprecated. It was first published in its complete form in Coleridge's 1796 collection of poems. Prior to that, approximately 100 lines of it, under the title "The Present State of Society", were published in The Watchman, 9th March, 1796. The lines prefixed to the poem are adapted from Book 1 of The Pleasures of Imagination by Mark Akenside
