“So little do, what we think inflictions weigh in the scale against the…” — Hartley Coleridge

“So little do, what we think inflictions weigh in the scale against the divine bounty that flows through the universe, filling it with joy and beauty.”

Setting personal affliction against a larger vision of goodness and beauty · Letter to Derwent Coleridge, January 1820

Hartley Coleridge

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…

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