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

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

. Coleridge was educated at

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, 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 Coleridge Cottage in Nether Stowey for the nation. He provided this epitaph

Life

In 1876, he married Sarah Mary (née Bradford) of

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shire, 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 The following year he published the ''Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge,'' and a selection from his grandfather's unpublished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 From the Unpublished Note-Books of Samuel Taylor Coleridge'', 1895 *(ed.)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 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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Ernest Ernest is a given name derived from the Germanic languages, Germanic word ''ernst'', meaning "serious", often shortened to Ernie. Notable people and fictional characters with the name include: People *Archduke Ernest of Austria (1553–1595), ...

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

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