The poet Hartley Coleridge (1796-1849) was marginalised  for a long time while  trying to develop his artistry under the shadow of his father, the great Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). He did not really gain recognition until at the beginning of the 21st century, in our own era of ecological awareness. Now, his poetry has been received as a pertinent combining of "the trivialand the monumental". His sensitive, minute recordings of hardly perceivable bucolic and sylvan scenes have earned him a reputation as a "miniaturist" and foreshadower of the current awakening to the precarious fragility of nature.