Joseph HucksDespite the company he kept, and the events at which he was present, there is scant information about Joseph Hucks (1772 - 1800), and his work has not been the focus of sustained scholarly analysis. He was born in Belford, Northumberland, and his his family was from Yorkshire. He was educated at Cambridge, where he became friends with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and he was later introduced to Robert Southey at Oxford. It is thought that he meaningfully contributed to the genesis of 'pantisocracy', Coleridge and Southey's failed vision of a 'republic of Reason and Virtue'. He wrote two books, A Pedestrian Tour through North Wales (1795) and Poems (1798). He also contributed three poems to Southey's Annual Anthology (1800). He died of consumption aged 28. Read More Read Less