Coleridge

Coleridge's discharge was obtained at Hounslow on April 10, 1794, and he returned to Cambridge. The year was destined to be eventful for him in more ways than one. In June he went to Oxford to pay a visit to an old schoolfellow, where an accidental introduction to Robert Southey, then an undergraduate of Balliol, laid the foundation of a friendship destined largely to influence their future lives. In the co