Coleridge, Hartley

an English poet, the eldest son of Samuel Taylor Cole ridge, B. at Clevedon, 1796. Imagination was predominant in him, and he displayed it when a boy in the composition of long and extraordinary romances. He entered Oxford University in 1815, and became Fellow of Oriel. Unhappily, he soon lost his fellowship, chiefly through a habit of intemperance, and his fortunes were blighted. After a brief stay in London, he went back to the north, tried his hand at the task of schoolmaster, but failed, and spent his remaining years in literary labors. His poems, many of which are of rare excellence, and his Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire, with two volumes of E ays and Marginalia, are the only written remains of his sad life. D. 1849.