{\b Hartley Coleridge}.

{\b Date of Birth}.: 19 September 1796

{\b Date of Death}.: 6 January 1849

{\b Works}.

English poet.  In 1833 he published Poems, Songs and Sonnets and Biographia 
Borealis, a biographical work which was republished in 1836 under the title 
Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire. He also wrote journalism, a Life of 
Marvell (1835) and edited The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford (1840). Two 
years after his death, his brother Derwent published an edition of his Essays 
and Marginalia.

{\b Featured Works}.

'To a Friend'.

{\b General Comment}.

The eldest son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Hartley appears as a child in two 
of his father's best poems, 'The Nightingale' and 'Frost at Midnight'. The 
poems provide vivid glimpses of the beauty of the Lake District where he grew 
up. Hartley's early education was supervised by his father's friend the poet 
Robert Southey. He went to Oxford in 1815, and later became a fellow of Oriel 
College, but he was dismissed for his excessive drinking. 

Like his father, Hartley was highly gifted but erratic, and he found it 
difficult to settle to a fixed career. He tried teaching in London for a short 
while, and also wrote articles for several journals, including Blackwood's 
Magazine and the London Magazine. In 1833 he returned to the Lake District 
where he lived for the rest of his life, passing his time with occasional 
study, writing and walking on the hills.

His 1833 Poems were received well, though he never achieved anything like the 
poetic fame of his father. His poetry is sensitive and graceful, particularly 
the sonnets, though it is still little known. He is chiefly remembered as a 
talented poet whose gift was not developed to the full.