. Coleridge and Wordsworth in the West Country : their friendship, work, and surroundings . Mrs. Wilson, the daughter of a lateChaplain Priest of the parish, showing the outside of theroom in which S. T. C. was born. PAGE Myrtle Cottage, Clevedon, in which the coleridges honeymoon was spent . xu No. 7 Great George Street, Bristol, 1906 2 No. 54 College Street, Bristol, 1906 . 13 Racedown . . . 19 Nether Stowey . . 43 The chief street of the village. Thomas Pooles houseis the last but one on the right-hand side. Coleridges Cottage, Nether Stowey . 58 As it was before the Nineteenth Century alte
. Coleridge and Wordsworth in the West Country : their friendship, work, and surroundings . Mrs. Wilson, the daughter of a lateChaplain Priest of the parish, showing the outside of theroom in which S. T. C. was born. PAGE Myrtle Cottage, Clevedon, in which the coleridges honeymoon was spent . xu No. 7 Great George Street, Bristol, 1906 2 No. 54 College Street, Bristol, 1906 . 13 Racedown . . . 19 Nether Stowey . . 43 The chief street of the village. Thomas Pooles houseis the last but one on the right-hand side. Coleridges Cottage, Nether Stowey . 58 As it was before the Nineteenth Century under the direction of Mr. M. J, Moore, who livedthere as a boy, and described it to the artist in detail. Alfoxden Park . . 73 [XV] List of Illustrations PAGt The Holford Coombs . 92 Interior of Coleridges Cottage, 1906 loo The Well at Coleridges Cottage no The Glen, Alfoxden Park 127 PoRLOCK Bay 161 Minehead Bay 179 Kilve . . 208 Clevedon Church . . 220 Above Brockley Coomb 226 Shurton Bars 228 [ xvi ] Coleridge and Wordsworthin the West Country. Coleridge and Wordsworthin the West Country CHAPTER I THE FIRST MEETING OF WORDSWORTHAND COLERIDGE IT seems strange that a doubt should stillexist as to the exact date, and place ofthe first meeting of these poets ; whetherit occurred at Racedown or at Bristol (fornowhere else could it have happened); and,if it was in the latter, where and when inthat city it took place. Much has beensurmised, and a good deal written on thesubject: but neither point has as yet been; determined with accuracy. In The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by [3] Coleridge and IVordsworth James Gillfnan (Vol. I, p. 74), the writersays :-^^.,*** ^.•,\,Some years since the late CharlesSjVl^athews, the comedian (or rather, as Cole-ridge used to observe, *the comic poet actinghis own poems), showed me an autographletter from Mr. Wordsworth to Mathewsbrother, who was at that time educating forthe Bar, and with whom he this letter he
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