Man of letters, born in Clevedon, Somerset, SW England, UK, the eldest son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He was brought up by Robert Southey at Greta Hall, and studied at Merton College, Oxford, but forfeited an Oriel College fellowship by intemperance. He spent two years in London, tried taking pupils at Ambleside, occasionally writing for Blackwood's Magazine, lived for some time in Grasmere, then moved to Leeds, where he wrote biographies. He later returned to Grasmere, where he continued to write poetry.
Hartley Coleridge (September 19, 1796 - January 6, 1849) was an English writer.
He was born near Bristol, and spent his early years in the care of Robert Southey at Greta Hall, Keswick, and he was educated by the Rev.
Hartley Coleridge then spent two years in London, where he wrote short poems for the London Magazine. Bingley, made a contract with him to write biographies of Yorkshire and Lancashire worthies. These were afterwards republished under the title of Biographia Borealis (1833) and Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire (1836). Bingley also printed a volume of his poems in 1833, and Coleridge lived in his house until the contract came to an end through the bankruptcy of the publisher.
From this time, except for two short periods in 1837 and 1838 when he acted as master at Sedbergh grammar school, he lived quietly at Grasmere and (1840-1849) Rydal, spending his time in study and wanderings about the countryside. The closing decade of Coleridge's life was wasted in what he himself calls "the woeful impotence of weak resolve."
Hartley Coleridge's literary reputation chiefly rests on his works of criticism, on his Prometheus, an unfinished lyric drama, and on his sonnets (a form which suited his particular skills).
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