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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There is scarcely a crime before me that is not, directly or indirectly, caused by strong drink.
—Hartley Coleridge
Topics: Drunkenness
Her very frowns are fairer far
Than smiles of other maidens are.
—Hartley Coleridge
Topics: Compliments
If we take care of the inches we will not have to worry about the miles.
—Hartley Coleridge
Topics: One Step at a Time
The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
—Hartley Coleridge
Rage is essentially vulgar, and never more vulgar than when it proceeds from mortified pride, disappointed ambition, or thwarted willfulness.
—Hartley Coleridge
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