Hartley Coleridge was known during his life for his personal and professional failures, especially for his inability to live up to that "genius" pronounced upon him by his father, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and by William Wordsworth and Robert Southey. Hartley Coleridge, unlike his father, led an almost uneventful existence. With the exception of his years at Oxford, his brief attempt to live in London as a journalist, and periods of less than a year in Leeds and Sedbergh, he passed his life in the Lake District, which was made famous by the collaboration there of his father and Wordsworth. During his life Hartley Coleridge published one volume of poems, mostly sonnets, and one volume of biography; he practiced literary journalism, placing poems and essays in popular and literary journals such as Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, The Winter's Wreath, The English Woman's Magazine, and The Academic Correspondent. He also undertook...