“But no, my mother, I never ceased to love you, tho’ times have been…” — Hartley Coleridge

“But no, my mother, I never ceased to love you, tho’ times have been, when that love was more remorse and agony, proclaiming aloud the duties which it gave no strength to perform.”

Confessing the painful distance between enduring love and neglected duty · Letter to Mrs Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 10 October 1831

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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