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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 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (; 21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poe ...

. 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 (God and My Right) , established = 705 by Aldhelm, re-founded by King Edward VI 1550 , closed = , type = Public school Independent, boarding school , religion = Church of England , president = , chair_label = Chairman of the governors , ...

, 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

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, by whom he had two sons and two daughters. In 1894 he was secretary to Lord Coleridge, the

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, to whom he was related. The following year he published the ''Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge,'' and a selection from his grandfather's unpublished

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entitled ''Anima Poetae''. He then spent several years editing and annotating the poetical works of

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, 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

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English book editors People educated at Sherborne School People educated at Highgate School Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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