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

Derwent Coleridge

Derwent Coleridge , third child of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, was a distinguished English scholar and author.-Early life:Derwent Coleridge was born at Keswick, Cumberland, 14 Sept. 1800 . He was sent with his brother Hartley to be educated at a small school near Ambleside...

 and grandson of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla...

. 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 Coleridge Cottage

Coleridge Cottage

Coleridge Cottage is a cottage situated in Nether Stowey, Bridgwater, Somerset, England.It was constructed in the 17th century as a building containing a parlour, kitchen and service room on the ground floor and three corresponding bed chambers above...

 in Nether Stowey

Nether Stowey

Nether Stowey is a large village in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset, South West England. It sits in the foothills of the Quantock Hills , just below Over Stowey...

 for the nation. He provided this epitaph

Stranger, beneath this roof in byegone days

Dwelt Coleridge. Here he sang his witching lays

Of that strange Mariner, and what befel,

In mystic hour, the Lady Christabel.

And here, what time the Summer’s breeze blew free,

Came Lamb, the gentle-hearted child of glee;

Here Wordsworth came, and wild-eyed Dorothy!

Now, all is silent but the taper light,

Which, from these Cottage windows shone at night,

Hath streamed afar. To these great souls was given

A double portion of the light of Heaven.

Works

• (ed.) Anima Poetae. From the Unpublished Note-Books of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1895
• (ed.) Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1895
• (ed. with Rowland E. Prothero) 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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