that I have no father, it appears more like a possible evil than an actual bereavement." In 1839 he brought out his edition of Philip Massinger and John Ford, with biographies of both dramatists. The closing decade of Coleridge's life was wasted in what he himself called "the woeful impotence of weak resolve". On the death of his mother in 1845, he was placed, by means of an annuity on his life, on a footing of complete independence, but he lived for only three more years. Hartley Coleridge's literary reputation chiefly rests on his works of criticism, on his Prometheus, an unfinished lyric drama, and on his sonnets (a form which suited his particular skills). Essays and Marginalia, and Poems, with a memoir by his brother Derwent, appeared in 1851. Modern criticism Hartley Coleridge, his Life and Work, E. L. Griggs, R. West, 1977. Hartley Coleridge: A Reassessment of His Life and Work, Andrew Keanie, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Notes References External links Individual book titles Bio & childhood image Essays of Hartley Coleridge Complete Poems of Hartley Coleridge, Vol 1 Complete Poems of Hartley Coleridge, Vol 2 Biographia Borealis; or, Lives of Distinguished Northerns Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire Hartley English biographers English essayists Headmasters of Sedbergh School People from Clevedon Samuel Taylor Coleridge Alumni of Merton College, Oxford 1796 births 1849 deaths Male essayists English male poets 19th-century English poets People from Grasmere (village) Male biographers