Record Number: 34001

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'...I should have thought that I acknowledged the “[Literary] Remains”, but I suppose I only intended to do it. I am, on the whole, greatly pleased with them. There is little in the book that is new to me. Some of the marginal notes can hardly be intelligible to any but those who are familiar with the books in which they were written, and a few contain opinions not strictly consonant with my father’s later judgement. But Henry [Nelson Coleridge] has performed a laborious task, with infinite care, industry and skilfulness. ...’

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1836 and 26 Dec 1836

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Grasmere
county: Cumbria

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:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Title:

The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Genre:

Drama, Essays / Criticism, Philosophy, Miscellany / Anthology, Reference / General works, marginalia; lecture notes

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

34001

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:

205-206

Additional Comments:

Letter addressed to Mrs Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Hartley’s mother), at Downshire Place, Hampstead, London, from Grasmere, dated December 26, 1836. Editors’ footnote: ‘H. N. Coleridge’s edition of [S. T.]Coleridge’s Literary Remains appeared between 1836 and 1838 (vols. i and ii, 1836; vols. iii and iv, 1838).’ Henry Nelson Coleridge is Hartley's cousin and brother-in-law (husband of Hartley's sister, Sara).

Citation:

Hartley Coleridge, Grace Evelyn and Earl Leslie Griggs (ed.), Letters of Hartley Coleridge, (London, 1936), n/a, p. 205-206, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=34001, accessed: 19 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Mrs Samuel Taylor Coleridge is Sarah Coleridge, née Fricker.