Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. His biographers, birth and family history, his boyhood and school days, early childhood, death of his father, goes to Christ's Hospital, goes to Jesus College, Cambridge, wins the Browne Gold Medal, leaves Cambridge suddenly and enlists in the army, his discharge, returns to Cambridge, his meeting with Southey and Sara Fricker (his future wife), writes the _Fall of Robespierre_ with Southey, leaves Cambridge, delivers the Bristol lectures, marries Sara Fricker at Bristol, writes the _Aeolian Harp_, plunges into politics and journalism, projects the _Watchman_ and goes on a canvassing tour, preaches Unitarian sermons by the way, brings out the _Watchman_, retires to a cottage in Somersetshire with Charles Lloyd, his meeting with Wordsworth, cooling of his revolutionary enthusiasm, his intercourse with Wordsworth, writes _Osorio_, his rambles with Wordsworth among the Quantock Hills, projects the _Lyrical Ballads_, writes the _Ancient Mariner_, _Christabel_, _Love_, _Kubla Khan_, undertakes the duties of a Unitarian preacher at Shrewsbury, accepts an annuity from the two Wedgwoods, goes to Germany with the Wordsworths, returns to England after a year's absence, translates Schiller's _Wallenstein_, devotes himself again to journalism, goes to the Lake country, takes opium as an anodyne, writes the _Ode to Dejection_, goes on a tour with Thomas Wedgwood, visits the Wordsworths at Grasmere, his illness there, goes to Malta, ill effects of his stay there, becomes Secretary to the Governor of the island, goes to Italy, returns to England after two and a half years' absence, his wretched condition of mind and body, estrangement from his wife, domestic unhappiness, meeting with De Quincey, pecuniary embarrassments, his lectures at the Royal Institution, lives with Wordsworth at Allan Bank, founds and edits the _Friend_, delivers lectures on Shakespeare, returns to journalism, his necessities, loses his annuity, neglect of his family, successful production of his play _Remorse_, lectures again at Bristol, retires to Calne with Mr. Morgan, more financial troubles, lives with Dr. Gillman at Highgate, undergoes medical treatment for the opium habit, returning health and vigour, renewed literary activity, writes the _Biographia Literaria_, lectures again in London, more money troubles, publishes _Aids to Reflection_, accompanies Wordsworth on a tour up the Rhine, his declining years, contemplation of his approaching end, his death,