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COLERIDGE, HARTLEY (1796-1849)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 677 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COLERIDGE, See also:HARTLEY (1796-1849) , See also:English See also:man of letters, eldest son of the poet See also:Samuel See also:Taylor Coleridge, was See also:born on the 19th of See also:September 1796, near See also:Bristol. His See also:early years were passed under See also:Southey's care at Greta See also:Hall, See also:Keswick, and he was educated by the Rev. See also:John See also:Dawes at See also:Ambleside. In 1815 he went to See also:Oxford, as See also:scholar of Merton See also:College. His university career, however, was very unfortunate. He had inherited the weakness of purpose, as well as the splendid conversational See also:powers, of his See also:father, and lapsed into habits of intemperance. He was successful in gaining an See also:Oriel fellowship, but at the See also:close of the probationary See also:year (1820) was judged to have forfeited it. The authorities could not be prevailed upon to See also:reverse their decision; but they awarded to him a See also:free See also:gift of £300. Hartley Coleridge then spent two years in See also:London, where he wrote See also:short poems for the London See also:Magazine. His next step was to become a partner in a school at Ambleside, but this See also:scheme failed. In 1830 a See also:Leeds publisher, Mr. F.

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Bingley, made a See also:contract with him to write See also:biographies of See also:Yorkshire and See also:Lancashire worthies. These were afterwards republished under the See also:title of Biographia Borealis (1833) and Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire (1836). Bingley also printed a See also:volume of his poems in 1833, and Coleridge lived in his See also:house until the contract came to an end through the See also:bankruptcy of the publisher. From this See also:time, except for two short periods in 1837 and 1838 when he acted as See also:master at See also:Sedbergh See also:grammar school, he lived quietly at See also:Grasmere and (1840-184.9) Rydal, spending his time in study and wanderings about the countryside. His figure was as See also:familiar as See also:Wordsworth's, and his gentleness and simplicity of manner won for him the friendship of the See also:country-See also:people. In 1839 appeared his edition of See also:Massinger and See also:Ford, with biographies of both dramatists. The closing See also:decade of Co)eridge's See also:life was wasted in what he himself calls " the woeful See also:impotence of weak resolve." He died on the 6th of See also:January 1849. The See also:prose See also:style of Hartley Coleridge is marked by much finish and vivacity; but his See also:literary reputation must chiefly See also:rest on the sanity of his criticisms, and above all on his See also:Prometheus, an unfinished lyric See also:drama, and on his sonnets. As a sonneteer he achieved real excellence, the See also:form being exactly suited to his sensitive See also:genius. Essays and Marginalia, and Poems, with a memoir by his See also:brother See also:Derwent, appeared in 1851.

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