Born in 1772, died in 1834; educated at Cambridge, but was
not graduated; formed an unsuccessful scheme for a
communistic settlement on the Susquehanna River, in
Pennsylvania; married a sister of Southey's wife in 1795;
published at Bristol a volume of poems in 1796; "The Ancient
Mariner" in 1798; settled at Keswick with Southey and
Wordsworth in 1800; lectured in London to fashionable
audiences, becoming in 1816 the guest of Mr. Gillman, a
London physician, at Highgate, where he spent the remainder
of his life; published "Christabel" in 1816, "Aids to
Reflection" in 1825, his "Literary Remains" appearing in
1836-39.
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