Poetic influence between William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and Hartley Coleridge (1796-1849)

What is it about?

The author Hartley Coleridge is best-known for his appearances in poems by the Romantic poets, particularly his father Samuel Taylor Coleridge and family friend William Wordsworth. But Hartley was an accomplished poet in his own right, and - as this article claims - his poetry provided an answer back to these elder poets to claim his own independent poetic identity.

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Why is it important?

The article proves a new perspective on the personal and poetic relationship between Hartley Coleridge and William Wordsworth. It also offers new thinking on Wordsworth's later life, and Hartley's perceptions of the changes to Wordsworth's imaginative and cultural influences in the mid-nineteenth century.