Inspirational Quotes by Hartley Coleridge (British Poet)

Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849,) fully David Hartley Coleridge, was an English poet whose self-willed talent found expression in his masterful and sensitive sonnets. He was the eldest son of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Born in Clevedon, Somerset, Coleridge was brought up by poet Robert Southey at Greta Hall and educated at Ambleside School and Merton College-Oxford. He lost his Oriel College fellowship because of intemperance.

Coleridge’s Poems, Songs, and Sonnets were published in 1833. He also wrote unfinished biographies, published under the titles Biographia Borealis (1833) and Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire (1836,) contributed to Blackwood’s Magazine, the London Magazine, and other literary journals, and edited the works of John Ford and Philip Massinger. His Essays and Marginalia (1851) were edited by his brother Derwent.

Coleridge was provided for by an annuity. He spent his later years in the Lake District, where he continued to write tender, sincere poetry. He was the subject of his father’s poems ‘Frost at Midnight’ and ‘The Nightingale.’

Earl Leslie Griggs wrote Hartley Coleridge, His Life, and Work (1929.)

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