“We have had several parties—vain attempts at merriment—but alas—it’s all body without spirit—Nitrogen without Oxygen—the tragedy of Hamlet with the character of Hamlet left out.”
About Hartley Coleridge
19 September 1796–6 January 1849
David Hartley Coleridge was born on 19 September 1796 at Clevedon, Somerset, into one of the most celebrated, unsettled, and intellectually charged families of the English Romantic age. He was the eldest surviving child of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, philosopher, critic, and author of “The Rime of the Ancient…