Record Number: 33991

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

‘Mr. Wordsworth looks older but keeps up his spirits wonderfully; his character, like his poetry, is much softened by age. I know not how Derwent [Coleridge] can think his last volume [Yarrow Revisted, and Other Poems] poor and degenerate. This is, indeed, nothing like the Ode on Immortality, or the finer parts of the Excursion, there is neither the same profundity of thought nor the same solar warmth of feeling - but there is a vein of tenderness, sweetness, and beauty which is almost new. ... I do wish, however, that there had been a little less of Lowther Castle, and that he had not call’d poor old Lady Lonsdale a Nymph.’

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1835 and 18 Jan 1836

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Hartley Coleridge

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

19 Sep 1796

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Poet, essayist, teacher, biographer

Religion:

Church of England

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

William Wordsworth

Title:

Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Longman, 1835

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33991

Source:

Print

Author:

Hartley Coleridge

Editor:

Grace Evelyn and Earl Leslie Griggs

Title:

Letters of Hartley Coleridge

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1936

Vol:

n/a

Page:

186-7

Additional Comments:

Letter written to 'Mother and Sister' (Sarah and Sara Coleridge), but addressed to Mrs Samuel Taylor Coleridge, at No. 27 Downshire Hill, Hampstead, from Grasmere, dated ‘Jan. 18, 1836. Raining Cats and Dogs’. Editors’ footnote on ‘Nymph’: ‘See “Lines written in the album of the Countess of Lonsdale, nov. 5, 1834”.’

Citation:

Hartley Coleridge, Grace Evelyn and Earl Leslie Griggs (ed.), Letters of Hartley Coleridge, (London, 1936), n/a, p. 186-7, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33991, accessed: 23 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None