His wife and children remained at Keswick, where Southey and his family had become co-tenants with them of Greta Hall.

Southey, it might almost be said, took care of Coleridge's family henceforth; for Coleridge had begun to find his own fireside an intolerable place as early as 1802, lived little at home, and made a formal separation from his wife in 1808,--though they saw each other occasionally after that and the Wedgwood annuity continued to be paid to Mrs.Coleridge.In 1809 he was living with the Wordsworths at Grasmere, where he wrote several numbers of a politico-philosophical paper called "The Friend." About the close of 1810 he was taken in hand by a Mr.and Mrs.Morgan of Hammersmith, near London, under whose care he kept the opium in check sufficiently to give his famous lectures on the "Principles of Poetry" in the winter of 1811-12, and another series in the early summer on Shakespeare.

In the winter following, his play of "Remorse," a recast of the "Osorio" of 1797, was acted in London with some success.

In the winter of 1813-14 he lectured, in a "conversational" fashion, at Bristol.

He also wrote irregularly for the London papers during these years.