COLERIDGE, HARTLEY (1796-1849), English man of letters, eldest son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, was born on Sept. 19, 1796, near Bristol. In 1815 he went to Oxford, as scholar of Merton College. His university career, however, was unfortunate. He gained an Oriel fellowship, but at the close of the probationary year (182o) was judged to have forfeited it. Hart ley Coleridge then spent two years in London, where he wrote short poems for the London Magazine, afterwards he became for a short time partner in a school at Ambleside, and in 183o began to do hack work for a Leeds publisher, Mr. F. E. Bingley. Bingley also printed a volume of his poems in 1833, and Coleridge lived in his house until the contract came to an end through the bank ruptcy of the publisher. From this time, except for two short periods in 1837 and 1838 when he acted as master at Sedbergh grammar school, he lived quietly at Grasmere and (184o-1849) Rydal, spending his time in study and wanderings about the countryside. In the year 1839 appeared his edition of Massinger and Ford, with biographies of both dramatists. He died on Jan. 6, 1849. The prose style of Hartley Coleridge is marked by much finish and vivacity; but his literary reputation must chiefly rest on the sanity of his criticisms, and above all on his Prometheus, an unfinished lyric drama, and on his sonnets. As a sonneteer he achieved real excellence, the form being exactly suited to his sensitive genius. Essays and Marginalia, and Poems, with a memoir by his brother Derwent, appeared in 1851.