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“The world is not to me a barren wilderness; but it is a garden, thick planted indeed, but planted with forbidden fruit, and guarded by dragons.”

Portraying life as abundant with attraction yet constrained by prohibition · Letter to Mrs Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1829

About Hartley Coleridge

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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