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Hartley Coleridge, possibly David Hartley Coleridge (19 September 1796 – 6 January 1849), was an English poet, biographer, essayist, and teacher. He was the eldest son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Hartley Coleridge è stato un poeta, biografo, saggista e insegnante inglese. Figlio maggiore del poeta Samuel Taylor Coleridge, prende il nome dal filosofo David Hartley.
Hartley Coleridge was the oldest son of Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Although he was the subject of two of his father’s poems—“ Frost at Midnight ” and “The Nightingale”—Coleridge was nonetheless estranged from his parents in his youth and raised by the poet Robert Southey.
Hartley Coleridge (born September 19, 1796, Kingsdown, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England—died January 6, 1849, Grasmere, Cumberland) was an English poet whose wayward talent found expression in his skillful and sensitive sonnets.
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Hartley Coleridge was an English poet and essayist, the eldest son of renowned poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Although his life was marked by personal struggles that hampered his literary output, he nonetheless left behind a body of work admired for its lyrical beauty and emotional depth.
Hartley Coleridge wrote many fine poems, some reflecting his sadness at a wasted life and his lack of self worth. His poem Long Time a Child, and Still a Child contains the poignant lines “For I have lost the race I never ran, And still I am a child, tho’ I be old”.
Building on Andrew Keanie’s commendable work, Hartley Coleridge: A Reassessment of his Life and Work (2008), the only modern study of Hartley as a literary figure in his own right, I define what makes Hartley a distinctive and significant poet.