“My whole experience has convinced me that advice does more harm than good in the world.”
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…