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He is detained I fear, by a thorn, which he unfortunately took in his heel a day or two before he wrote to me his last letter. He comes alone. As soon as he is here he shall write to you." "Stowey, Nov. 27, 1799. He set off immediately for Yorkshire. He has since been to the lakes. I suppose we shall soon see him. "Stowey, March 15, 1804. ... Coleridge is still here with Tobin.
In 1795 he married Miss Fricker, and removed to Nether Stowey, a village in Somersetshire, where he wrote the "Ancient Mariner" and the first part of "Christabel." While here he became a close friend of Wordsworth.
"In omni adversitate fortunae, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem." Boethius. Carrlyon's Early Years and late Reflections, vol. i. p. 27. The Bristol Lectures Marriage Life at Clevedon The Watchman Retirement to Stowey Introduction to Wordsworth.
Coleridge now finding it difficult to superintend the press at so great a distance as Stowey, and that it interfered also with his other literary engagements, he resolved once more to remove to Bristol, the residence of so many friends; and to that city he repaired, the beginning of 1796.
In April I retire to my greater works, 'The Life of Lessing. My German chests are arrived, but I have them not yet, but expect them from Stowey daily; when they come I shall send a letter. I have seen a good deal of Godwin, who has just published a Novel. I like him for thinking so well of Davy. He talks of him every where as the most extraordinary of human beings he had ever met with.
T. Wedgewood, dated "16, Abingdon Street, London:" "Poole looks so worshipful in his office among his clerks, that it would give you a few minutes' good spirits to look in upon him." The following letter will explain this allusion. "Stowey, Sept. 14, 1803. My dear Sir, ... I thank you heartily for your kindness, and I will tell you all about my going to London.
The banners of Bridgewater, of Shepton Mallet, and of Nether Stowey swept past us, with that of the fishers of Clovelly and the quarrymen of the Blackdowns. In the rear were three companies of strange men, giants in stature, though somewhat bowed with labour, with long tangled beards, and unkempt hair hanging over their eyes.
The market-street is paved with cobble-stones, and down one side of it runs a small brook, partly built in and covered over, but making a merry noise all the way. Coleridge speaks of it in his letters as "the dear gutter of Stowey." Just outside of the town is the Castle Mound, a steep, grassy hill, to the top of which we climbed.
But as this did not bring him wealth he then tried various other ways of making a living. He began a weekly paper which ceased after a few numbers, he lectured on history, and preached in various Unitarian chapels. Then after a time he settled at Nether Stowey, where he was living when he met Wordsworth.
About 1796 he fell into the fatal habit of taking laudanum, which had such disastrous effects upon his character and powers of will. In the same year Poems on various Subjects appeared, and a little later Ode to the Departing Year. While at Nether Stowey he was practically supported by Thomas Poole, a tanner, with whom he had formed a friendship.
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