Transcriber's Note Variations in spelling, punctuation and hyphenation have been retained except in obvious cases of typographical errors. Italics are shown thus _italic_ and bold thus =bold= The letter o written with a macron (straight line) above is marked [=o]. DE QUINCEY'S COLLECTED WRITINGS VOL. II AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND LITERARY REMINISCENCES THE COLLECTED WRITINGS OF THOMAS DE QUINCEY BY DAVID MASSON EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH VOL. II LONDON A. & C. BLACK, SOHO SQUARE 1896 [Illustration: Samuel Taylor Coleridge. From a picture by Peter Vandyke in the National Portrait Gallery] CONTENTS OF VOL. II PAGE EDITOR'S PREFACE 1 AUTOBIOGRAPHY CONTINUED FROM 1803 TO 1808-- CHAP. I. OXFORD 9 II. GERMAN STUDIES AND KANT IN PARTICULAR 81 LITERARY AND LAKE REMINISCENCES-- CHAP. I. A MANCHESTER SWEDENBORGIAN AND A LIVERPOOL LITERARY COTERIE 113 II. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 138 III. THE LAKE POETS: WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 229 IV. THE LAKE POETS: WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AND ROBERT SOUTHEY 303 V. THE LAKE POETS: SOUTHEY, WORDSWORTH, AND COLERIDGE 335 VI. THE SARACEN'S HEAD 348 VII. WESTMORELAND AND THE DALESMEN: SOCIETY OF THE LAKES 360 VIII. SOCIETY OF THE LAKES: CHARLES LLOYD 381 IX. SOCIETY OF THE LAKES: MISS ELIZABETH SMITH, THE SYMPSONS, AND THE K---- FAMILY 403 X. SOCIETY OF THE LAKES: PROFESSOR WILSON: DEATH OF LITTLE KATE WORDSWORTH 432 XI. RAMBLES FROM THE LAKES: MRS. SIDDONS AND HANNAH MORE 446 EDITOR'S PREFACE The matter of this volume breaks itself into two main divisions, as follows:-- I.--AUTOBIOGRAPHY CONTINUED FROM 1803 TO 1808