_Coleridge, Samuel Taylor_: his five autobiographical letters to Thomas Poole, i, 3-22; born 21st October 1772, 3; ancestry and parentage, 3-6; writes autobiographical letters to Thomas Poole, 5; baptised, 9; child life of, 9-22; at the reading school, 11; early reading, 12; admitted to the Grammar School, 13; anecdotes of, 15; his father resolves to make him a parson, 17; recollections of the Vast, 17; sent to Christ's Hospital, 19; sent to Hertford, 20; entered at Jesus College, Cambridge, 29; gains Sir William Browne's gold medal for the Greek Ode, 30; stands for the Craven Scholarship, 30; writes a Greek Ode on Astronomy, 31; account of, by a fellow student (C. V. Le Grice) at college, 31; at Frend's trial, 31; at Ottery St. Mary in 1793, 32; returns to Cambridge and enlists in the 15th Light Dragoons, 32; comes back to Cambridge, 33; espouses Unitarianism, 33; goes to Oxford and makes the acquaintance of Southey, 34; leaves Oxford in company with John Hucks and makes a tour in Wales, 35; tells an anecdote about his walking stick, 39; goes to Bristol to meet Southey and is introduced to Sarah Fricker, 41; along with Southey projects a scheme of Platonic Republicanism named Pantisocracy, 41-9; delivers lectures in Bristol, 48; marries Sarah Fricker on 4th October 1795, 49; resides at Clevedon, 49-50; projects a political journal called the _Watchman_, 50; proposes to start a school, 51; becomes acquainted with Joseph Cottle, publisher and poet, Bristol, 51; and John James Morgan, 52; and Dr. Beddoes and the Wedgwoods, 53; preaches with remarkable effect, 54; goes on a tour to the North to canvass for subscribers for the _Watchman_, 54-61; meets Erasmus Darwin, 57; meets James Montgomery, the poet, 59; returns to Bristol and resides at Redcliffe Hill, 61; gets ready for publication his first volume of poems, 61; publishes the _Watchman_, 64; removes to Kingsdown, Bristol, 64; attacks William Godwin in the _Watchman_, 69; projects various literary, etc., schemes, 74-5, 78-9; Tom Poole collects an annuity for, 80; proposes to settle at Nottingham, 83; proposes to take to teaching, 85-6; goes to Darley to see Mrs. Evans, 85-6; returns to Bristol, 88; goes to Birmingham to see the father of Charles Lloyd, 89; his first child is born, 90; quarrels with and is reconciled to Southey, 92; writes his _Ode to the Departing Year_, and dedicates it to Thomas Poole, 112; removes early in January 1797 to Stowey, Somersetshire, 121; engages to publish a revised edition of his Poems, 122; and sends poems to Cottle for his criticisms, 125; invited by Sheridan to write a Tragedy, 127;