CONTENTS. Testimonies to Coleridge's greatness; he is born October 21, 1772, at Ottery St. Mary, where his father is vicar and schoolmaster; his mother's character; leaves Ottery on his father's death, and is admitted to Christ's Hospital July, 1782; not happy at school; has thoughts of becoming a shoemaker, and then of entering the medical profession; is a solitary lad; reads poetry and metaphysics; is flogged for infidelity; greatly influenced by Bowles' poetry; begins to write himself; leaves Christ's Hospital in the autumn of 27 Coleridge goes to Cambridge, February, 1791; talks much and Coleridge returns to Cambridge; greatly impressed with Words- 34 Testimonies to Coleridge's greatness; he is born October 21, 1772, at Ottery St. Mary, where his father is vicar and schoolmaster; his mother's character; leaves Ottery on his II Coleridge goes to Cambridge, February, 1791; talks much and is a democrat ; falls into debt; runs away from Cambridge Coleridge returns to Cambridge; greatly impressed with Words- worth's first book; visits Oxford, and makes friends with Southey; visits Bristol (1794) and falls in love with Sarah Fricker, to whose sister Southey is engaged; literary society of Bristol; Coleridge, Southey, and Allen project new social system, to be known as "Pantisocrasy," and determine to go to America and establish it there; mean- while Coleridge stays in London in society of Lamb, and Married life at Clevedon; Coleridge writes for the press; pro- • 47 Coleridge meets Wordsworth; sketch of latter's early career; description of Coleridge by Dorothy Wordsworth; Cole- ridge and Wordsworth discuss poetry, and write "Lyrical Ballads"; origin of "Ancient Mariner," autumn 1797; Coleridge writes "Ancient Mariner,' ""Dark Ladie," first in Solitude," "France, an Ode"; how "Kubla Khan' 59 Material position not prosperous in 1798; Coleridge thinks again of Unitarian pulpit; makes acquaintance of Hazlitt at Shrewsbury; Hazlitt describes him; eloquence as a speaker; the brothers Wedgewood give Coleridge £150 a year, and he goes to Germany with Wordsworth in 70 Situation of Greta Hall; second part of "Christabel"; Cole- Coleridge physics himself, and unconsciously takes to opium; goes to Malta (April, 1804) chiefly for his health; appointed secretary to the governor; visits Rome; leaves Rome for 80 |
