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1772 born (Oct. 21) at Ottery St. Mary's, Devonshire.
1781 father dies.
1782-91 at Christ's Hospital (school). [See Lamb, "Christ's Hospital Five- and-Thirty years Ago."]
1789 reads Bowles's Sonnets.
1790-91 brother Luke and sister Ann die.
1791-94 at Cambridge.
1793 in love with Mary Evans; enlists in the 15th Dragoons.
1794 returns to Cambridge; meets Southey.
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Engaged to Sara Fricker. Meets Godwin. STC and Southey plan a "Pantisocracy."
1795 meets Wordsworth. Marries Sara Fricker.
1796 Poems on Various Subjects. Son Hartley born.
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Coleridge moves to Nether Stowey. First takes opium.
1796-97 preaching at various Unitarian chapels.
1797 with Wordsworth at Nether Stowey. Begins The Ancient Mariner.
1798 Lyrical Ballads, with Wordsworth. Wedgewoods give Coleridge £150 annuity.
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Visits Germany with Wordsworth. Writes "Kubla Khan."
1799 meets Sara Hutchinson. Tours the Lake district.
1799-1802 writes political leaders for Morning Post.
1801 health breaks down; opium again.