COLE RIDGE, HARTLEY (1796-1849)

—Poet, eldest s. of Samuel T.C. ( q.v. ), b. at Clevedon, spent his youth at Keswick among the "Lake poets." His early education was desultory, but he was sent by Southey to Oxf. in 1815. His talents enabled him to win a Fellowship, but the weakne of his character led to his being deprived of it. He then went to London and wrote for magazines. From 1823 to 1828 he tried keeping a school at Amble side, which failed, and he then led the life of a recluse at Grasmere until his death. Here he wrote E ays , Biograph i a Borealis (lives of worthies of the northern counties) (1832), and a Life of Mas singer (1839). He is remembered chiefly for his Sonnets . He also left unfinished a drama, Pro me the us .