[Chapter VI.]
1806-1809.
Stay at Malta – Its injurious effects – Return to England – Meeting with De Quincey – Residence in London – First series of lectures.
[Chapter VII.]
1809-1810.
Return to the Lakes – From Keswick to Grasmere – With Wordsworth at Allan Bank – The Friend – Quits the Lake country for ever.
[Chapter VIII.]
1810-1816.
London again – Second recourse to journalism – The Courier articles – The Shakespeare lectures – Production of Remorse – At Bristol again as lecturer – Residence at Calne – Increasing ill health and embarrassments – Retirement to Mr. Gillman's.
Metaphysical and Theological Period.
[Chapter IX.]
1816-1818.
Life at Highgate – Renewed activity – Publications and republications – The Biographia Literaria – The lectures of 1818 – Coleridge as a Shakespearian critic.