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In this article I would like to examine literary dialogues between Edmund Burke, who was the champion of British conservative philosophies, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a poet, literary critic and polemist. I will focus on Burke’s influential political pamphlet, Reflections on the Revolution in France, which was published in 1790 and attracted various political responses at that time. I will compare Burke’s Reflections with Coleridge’s two works written in his early years -- a political pamphlet titled “On the Present War,” which was included in Conciones Ad Populum and a sonnet, “To Burke,” written as a part of sonnet cycles, Sonnets on Eminent Characters. Coleridge criticized Burke in those works. In so doing, I will show young Coleridge’s disagreement with Burke’s conservatism. (Chonbuk National University)