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Robert, the English poet and miscellaneous writer, was born in 1774. He was sent to Westminster School in 1788, but was dismi ed in 1792 for w'riting a satirical paper on flogging, published in “The Flagellant, ” a school journal. Soon after he entered Balliol College, Oxford, which he left in 1794 and he and Cole ridge were married on SPECIFIC the same day,; in 1795, to two sisters. Having sold his “Joan of Arc,” he went, not long afterwards, to Portugal, and returning in 1798, entered Gray's Inn, but made no progre there and in 1801 again visited the Peninsula. He had already; published a violent, democratic piece, entitled "Wat Tyler,” but he now renounced those opinions on democracy, and his poem, “Thalaba the Destroyer," published in 1802, attracted much notice. In 1804 he settled near Keswick, and in 1839, having lost his first wife, he married the writer, Catharine Bowles (1786-1854) but he soon became imbecile, and died in 1843. Besides the poems mentioned, he wrote “ Madoc,” “ The Curse of Kehama,” “ Roderick, the Last of the Goths,’’ “ A Poet’s Pilgrimage to Waterloo,” and “Vision of Judgment. His prose works are in excellent style, his “ Life of Nelson ” being a model SPECIFIC of its kind.