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Ernest Hartley Coleridge (1846–1920) was a British literary scholar and poet. He was son of

Derwent Coleridge Derwent Coleridge (14 September 1800 – 28 March 1883), third son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, was a distinguished English scholar and author. Early life Derwent Coleridge was born at Keswick, Cumberland, 14 September 1800 (Derwent Water i ...

and grandson of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Coleridge was educated at

Highgate School Highgate School, formally Sir Roger Cholmeley's School at Highgate, is an English co-educational, fee-charging, independent day school, founded in 1565 in Highgate, London, England. It educates over 1,400 pupils in three sections – Highgate ...

, Sherborne School, and

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. He did scholarly work on his grandfather's manuscripts, being the last of the Coleridges involved in their editing. He also took part in the campaign to buy the

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for the nation. He provided this epitaph

Life

In 1876, he married Sarah Mary (née Bradford) of Newton Abbot, Devonshire, by whom he had two sons and two daughters. In 1894 he was secretary to

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, the Lord Chief Justice, to whom he was related. The following year he published the ''Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge,'' and a selection from his grandfather's unpublished notebooks entitled ''Anima Poetae''. He then spent several years editing and annotating the poetical works of Lord Byron, which were published by John Murray in seven volumes between 1898 and 1903. Over the next ten years he worked on a biography of Lord Coleridge which was published in 1904 as ''The Life and Correspondence of John Duke, Lord Coleridge.'' Coleridge died, aged 74, in February 1920 at

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Works

*(ed.) ''Anima Poetae. From the Unpublished Note-Books of Samuel Taylor Coleridge'', 1895 *(ed.) ''Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge'', 1895 *(ed. with

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) ''The Works of Lord Byron'', 13 vols., 1898 *''Poems'', 1898 *''Life & Correspondence of John Duke Lord Coleridge Lord Chief Justice of England'', 2 vols., 1904 *(ed.) ''The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge'', 1912 *''The Life of Thomas Coutts Banker'', 2 vols., 1920

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Coleridge, EH 1846 births 1920 deaths Ernest English book editors People educated at Sherborne School People educated at Highgate School Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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