Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Henry Gardiner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) * * * * * Transcriber's Note: The original publication document has been replicated faithfully except as listed near the end in another Transcriber's Note. Words in italics are indicated _like this_. * * * * * [Illustration] [Illustration: THE CREW OF THE SKELETON SHIP. "Are those _her_ ribs through which the Sun Did peer, as through a grate? And is that Woman all her crew? Is that a Death? and are there two? Is Death that woman's mate? "_Her_ lips were red, _her_ looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was as white as leprosy.... The naked hulk alongside came, And the twain were casting dice." (_The Ancient Mariner_).] A DAY WITH SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE BY MAY BYRON [Illustration] LONDON HODDER & STOUGHTON _In the same Series._ _Tennyson._ _Wordsworth._ _Browning._ _Burns._ _Byron._ _Keats._ _E. B. Browning._ _Whittier._ _Rossetti._ _Shelley._ _Longfellow._ _Scott._ _Whitman._ _Morris._ A DAY WITH COLERIDGE. In a beautiful part of beautiful Somerset, where the "soft orchard and cottage scenery" is dimpled between blue hillslopes, where meadows and woods and translucent streams compete with each other in charm,--in the lovely region of the Quantock hills, lies the quiet little market-village of Nether Stowey. About sunrise on a May morning of 1790, a young man awoke in a little wayside cottage there: and, resolutely thrusting back his natural inclination to indolence, rose and dressed, and set himself to the performance of such humble duties as devolve upon a very poor householder with a wife and child.