Coleridge, Hartley

Coleridge, Hartley

▪ British poet
born Sept. 19, 1796, Kingsdown, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Eng.
died Jan. 6, 1849, Grasmere, Cumberland

      English poet whose wayward talent found expression in his skillful and sensitive sonnets.

      The eldest son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, he spent his childhood alarming and delighting his family and the Southeys and Wordsworths by his mental agility and the “exquisite wildness” that caused his father and Wordsworth to address poems to him prophetic in their forebodings. He entered Oxford in 1815 and in 1819 gained an Oriel Fellowship but forfeited it after a year by uncontrolled drinking and lack of application.

      In 1820 he began literary work in London and contributed to the London Magazine, but again instability cut short a promising career. By 1833 Coleridge returned to the Lake District at Grasmere, where, with two short intervals of teaching at Sedbergh, he lived until his death.

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