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SOURCE: “Poems (1833),” in Hartley Coleridge: Poet's Son and Poet, Oxford University Press, 1931, pp. 101-15.
In this critical overview of Poems, Hartman notes the technical skill of Coleridge's sonnets, remarking on the strong influence Wordsworth had on the younger poet.
Poems: (Songs and Sonnets) by Hartley Coleridge, issued by Bingley at Leeds early in 1833,1 is the slender octavo volume upon which rests the poetic reputation of the son of S. T. C. ‘Some writers’, the author wrote a decade later, ‘maintain a sort of dubious, twilight existence, from their connection with others of greater name. … If aught of mine be preserved from oblivion, it will be owing to my bearing the name of Coleridge, and having enjoyed, I fear with less profit than I ought, the acquaintance of Southey and Wordsworth.’ Elsewhere he modestly refers to his ‘knack of verse’ as entitling him to rank as ‘one of the...
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