CHAPTER VII. [1809-1810.] Return to the Lakes--From Keswick to Grasmere--With Wordsworth at Allan Bank--The _Friend_--Quits the Lake country for ever. CHAPTER VIII. [1810-1816.] London again--Second recourse to journalism--The _Courier_ articles--The Shakespeare lectures--Production of _Remorse_--At Bristol again as lecturer--Residence at Calne--Increasing ill health and embarrassments--Retirement to Mr. Gillman's. _METAPHYSICAL AND THEOLOGICAL PERIOD._ CHAPTER IX. [1816-1818.] Life at Highgate--Renewed activity--Publications and republications--The _Biographia Literaria_--The lectures of 1818--Coleridge as a Shakespearian critic. CHAPTER X. [1818-1834.] Closing years--Temporary renewal of money troubles--The _Aids to Refection_--Growing weakness-Visit to Germany with the Wordsworths--Last illness and death. CHAPTER XI. Coleridge's metaphysics and theology--_The Spiritual Philosophy_ of Mr. Green. CHAPTER XII. Coleridge's position in his later years--His discourse--His influence on contemporary thought--Final review of his intellectual work. INDEX. COLERIDGE. CHAPTER I. Birth, parentage, and early years--Christ's Hospital--Jesus College, Cambridge. [1772-1794.] On the 21st of October 1772 there was added to that roll of famous Englishmen of whom Devonshire boasts the parentage a new and not its least illustrious name. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE was the son of the Rev. John Coleridge, vicar of Ottery St. Mary in that county, and head master of Henry VIII.'s Free Grammar School in the same town. He was the youngest child of a large family. To the vicar, who had been twice married, his first wife had borne three children, and his second ten. Of these latter, however, one son died in infancy; four others, together with the only daughter of the family, passed away before Samuel had attained his majority; and thus only three of his brothers, James, Edward, and George Coleridge, outlived the eighteenth century. The first of these three survivors became the father of Henry Nelson Coleridge--who married his cousin Sara, the poet's accomplished daughter, and edited his uncle's posthumous works--and of the late Mr. Justice Coleridge, himself the father of the present Lord Chief-Justice of England. Edward, the second of the three, went, like his eldest brother William, to Pembroke College, Oxford, and like him took orders; and George, also educated at the same college and for the same profession, succeeded eventually to his father's benefice and school. The vicar himself appears from all accounts to have been a man of more mark than most rural incumbents, and probably than a good many schoolmasters of his day. He was a Hebrew scholar of some eminence, and the compiler of a Latin grammar, in which, among other innovations designed to simplify the study of the language for "boys just initiated," he proposed to substitute for the name of "ablative" that of "quale-quare-quidditive case." The mixture of amiable simplicity and