Record Number: 33909
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
�Of course I need not tell you...that I wrote the critique on the Pilgrim to Compostella in Blackwood � that both the Professor and I have read "the Progress and Prospects of society" and that we both of us admire it hugely'.
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Jan 1829 and 31 Dec 1829
Country:England
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Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:19 Sep 1796
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Poet, essayist, teacher
Religion:Church of England
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Sir Thomas More; or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Social Science, Politics, Philosophy
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details1829
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:33909
Source: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:100
Additional Comments:
Letter addressed to Hartley's mother, Mrs Samuel Taylor Coleridge, at Greta Hall, Keswick [1829] Editors note that Hartley is referring to Blackwood's Magazine (July 1829), and Robert Southey�s Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society (1829). �the Professor� is John Wilson, who wrote under the pseudonym �Christopher North' for Blackwood's and was a close friend of Hartley's.
Citation:
Hartley Coleridge, Grace Evelyn and Earl Leslie Griggs (ed.), Letters of Hartley Coleridge, (London, 1936), n/a, p. 100, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33909, accessed: 03 February 2026
Additional Comments:
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