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Hartley Coleridge

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From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Date: 20080415
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Hartley Coleridge , 1796-1849, English author; eldest son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Reared in the household of the poet Southey after the estrangement of his parents, Hartley Coleridge went to Oxford and gained a fellowship at Oriel. His shy and melancholy nature, however, curtailed a very promising university career. He was dismissed from Oriel for intemperance and went to London. There he wrote and tutored private pupils. His Biographia Borealis, a series of very sound critical biographies, appeared in 1833. The same year he published a small volume of poems, including some beautiful ...

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