Hartley Coleridge: Genius Disregarded

It is now 20 years since the last publication of a selection of Hartley Coleridge’s poems. Then, in 2000, the editor Lisa Gee said that Hartley was ‘perhaps the most neglected poet of the nineteenth century’. He still is, despite Gee’s captivating Bricks Without Mortar, and the excellent revisionary work done since by contemporary critics.

This selection, Hartley Coleridge: Genius Disregarded, includes two previously unpublished poems, including the contemplative and lovely ‘Windermere Lake’.

For beauty is no object of the Eye

No calculable form or quality,

It is not aught that Scale or Scales can try.

It is a stirring introduction to a poet whose style is light, profound, personal, and prevailingly intellectual. Hartley Coleridge’s is a voice worth listening to now more than ever.

About the author: Andrew Keanie is a lecturer at Ulster University. He has written books, articles, reviews and book chapters on several of the writers of the English Romantic era. 

102 pages.

ISBN: 978-1-910996-44-7 (Softback).

ISBN: 978-1-910996-55-3 (Hardback).