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47. Poole. 26 Dec. 1796

CHAPTER IV.

CONTEMPORARY PORTRAITS OF COLERIDGE

CHAPTER V.
STOWEY Letter 48. To Cottle. Jany. 1797 49. " 3 Jany. 1797 50. " 10
Jany. 1797 51. " Jany. 1797 52. " Jany. -- 53. " Jany. -- 54. " Feby. or
Mch. 1797 55. " May, 1797 56. " -- -- 57. " -- -- 58. Wade. -- -- 59.
Cottle. -- -- 60. " -- June, 1797 61. " 8 June, 1797 62. " 29 -- -- 63. "
3-17 July, 1797 64. Wade. 17-20 July, 1797 Letter 65. To Cottle. --Sept.
1797 66. " 3 Sept. 1797 67. " 10-15 Sept. 1797 68. " 28 Nov. 1797 69. "
2 Dec. 1797 70. " --Jany. 1798 71. Wedgwood. --Jany. 1798 72. Cottle.
24 Jany. 1798 73. the Editor, "Monthly Mag." --Jany. 1798

CHAPTER VI.
THE LYRICAL BALLADS AND GERMANY
Letter 74. To Cottle. 18 Feb. 1798 75. the Editor, "Morning Post." 10
Mch. 1798 76. Cottle. 8 Mch. 1798 77. Wade. 21 Mch. 1798 78. Cottle.
Mch. or Apl. 1798 79. " 14 April, 1798 80. " --April, 1798 81. " --May,
1798 82. Mrs. Coleridge. 14 Jany. 1799 83. " 23 April, 1799

CHAPTER VII.
THE RELIGION OF THE PINEWOODS
Letter 84. To Mrs. Coleridge. 17 May, 1799

CHAPTER VIII.
RETURN TO ENGLAND, "WALLENSTEIN", AND THE
"MORNING POST"
Letter 85. To Josiah Wedgwood. 21 May, 1799 86. "the Editor,
Morning Post." 21 Dec. 1799 87. " 10 Jany. 1800 88. Thomas
Wedgwood. --Jany. 1800 89. Josiah Wedgwood. --Feby. 1800 90.
Thomas Poole. --Mch. 1800

CHAPTER IX

KESWICK
Letter 91. To William Godwin. 21 May, 1800 92. Humphry Davy.
--June, 1800 93. Josiah Wedgwood. 24 July, 1800 94. Davy. 25 July,
1800 95. Godwin. 22 Sept. 1800 96. Davy. 9 Oct. 1800 97. Godwin. 13
Oct. 1800 98. Davy. 18 Oct. 1800 99. Josiah Wedgwood. 1 Nov. 1800
100. " 12 Nov. 1800 101. the Editor, "Monthly Review."18 Nov. 1800
102. Davy. 2 Dec. 1800 103. " 3 Feby. 1801 104. Wade. 6 March, 1801
105. Godwin. 25 March, 1801

PART II.--THE PERMANENT

CHAPTER X.
ILL HEALTH; SOUTHEY COMES TO KESWICK
Letter 106. To Southey. 13 April, 1801 107. Davy. 4 May, 1801 108. "
20 May, 1801 109. Godwin. 23 June, 1801 110. Davy. 31 Oct. 1801
111. Thos. Wedgwood. 20 Oct. 1802 112. " 3 Nov. 1802 113. " 9 Jany.
l803 114. " 14 Jany. 1803 115. " 10 Feby. 1803 116. " 10 Feby. 1803
117. " 17 Feby. 1803 118. " 17 Feby. 1803 119. Godwin. 4 June, 1803
120. " 10 July, 1803 121. Southey. -- July, 1803 122. Thos. Wedgwood.
16 Sept. 1803 123. Miss Cruikshank. -- -- 1803 124. Thos. Wedgwood.
-- Jany. 1804 125. " 28 Jany. 1804 126. Davy. 6 Mch. 1804 127. Sarah
Hutchinson. 10 March, 1804 128. Wedgwood. 24 March, 1804 129.
Davy. 25 March, 1804

PART I
POETRY
BIOGRAPHIA EPISTOLARIS

CHAPTER I

EARLY YEARS [1772 to 1791]
While here, thou fed'st upon etherial beams, As if thou had'st not a
terrestrial birth;-- Beyond material objects was thy sight; In the clouds
woven was thy lucid robe! "Ah! who can tell how little for this sphere
That frame was fitted of empyreal fire!" [1]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was the youngest child of the Reverend John
Coleridge, Chaplain-Priest and Vicar of the parish of Ottery St. Mary,
in the county of Devon, and Master of the Free Grammar, or King's
School, as it is called, founded by Henry VIII in that town. His mother's
maiden name was Ann Bowdon. He was born at Ottery on the 21st of
October 1772, "about eleven o'clock in the forenoon," as his father, the
Vicar, has, with rather unusual particularity, entered it in the register.
John Coleridge, who was born in 1719, and finished his education at
Sidney-Sussex College, Cambridge,[2] was a country clergyman and
schoolmaster of no ordinary kind. He was a good Greek and Latin
scholar, a profound Hebraist, and, according to the measure of his day,
an accomplished mathematician. He was on terms of literary friendship
with Samuel Badcock, and, by his knowledge of Hebrew, rendered
material assistance to Dr. Kennicott, in his well known critical works.
Some curious papers on theological and antiquarian subjects appear
with his signature in the early numbers of "The Gentleman's Magazine",
between the years 1745 and 1780; almost all of which have been
inserted in the interesting volumes of Selections made several years ago
from that work. In 1768 he published miscellaneous Dissertations
arising from the 17th and 18th chapters of the Book of Judges; in which
a very learned and ingenious attempt is made to relieve the character of
Micah from the charge of idolatry ordinarily brought against it;