Volume I
Reading edition
PAGE
Juvenile Poems
Genevieve [9]
Sonnet to the Autumnal Moon 10
Time, Real and Imaginary. An Allegory 11
Monody on the Death of Chatterton 12
Songs of the Pixies 19
The Raven 25
Absence. A Farewell Ode 28
Lines on an Autumnal Evening 30
The Rose 35
The Kiss 37
To a Young Ass 39
Domestic Peace 41
The Sigh 42
Epitaph on an Infant ['Ere Sin could blight'] 43
Lines written at the King's-Arms, Ross 44
Lines to a beautiful Spring in a Village 46
On a Friend who died of a Frenzy-fever induced by calumnious reports 48
To a Young Lady with a Poem on the French Revolution 51
Sonnet I. My heart has thanked thee, Bowles 54
" II. As late I lay in Slumber's Shadowy Vale 55
" III. Though roused by that dark Vizir Riot rude 56
" IV. When British Freedom for an happier land 57
" V. It was some Spirit, Sheridan! 58
" VI. O what a loud and fearful Shriek 59
" VII. As when far off 60
" VIII. Thou gentle Look 61
" IX. Pale Roamer through the Night 62
" X. Sweet Mercy! 63
" XI. Thou bleedest, my Poor Heart 64
" XII. To the Author of The Robbers 65
Lines, composed while climbing Brockley Coomb 66
Lines in the Manner of Spenser 67
Imitated from Ossian 70
The Complaint of Ninathoma 72
Imitated from the Welsh 73
To an Infant 74
Lines in answer to a Letter from Bristol 76
To a Friend in Answer to a melancholy Letter 82
Religious Musings 84
The Destiny of Nations. A Vision 104
Sibylline Leaves
Half-title
I. Poems Occasioned by Political Events or / Feelings Connected with Them [127]
Motto—fourteen lines—'When I have borne in memory what has tamed', Wordsworth [128]
Ode to the Departing Year 131
France, an Ode 139
Fears in Solitude 144
Fire, Famine, and Slaughter 155
Half-title
II. Love Poems [159]
Motto—eleven lines of a Latin Poem by Petrarch [160]
Love 161
Lewti, or the Circassian Love-chaunt 167
The Picture, or the Lover's Resolution 171
The Night Scene, a Dramatic Fragment 179
To an Unfortunate Woman 184
To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre 186
Lines composed in a Concert Room 188
The Keepsake 191
To a Lady, with Falconer's Shipwreck 194
To a Young Lady on her recovery from a Fever 196
Something Childish, but very Natural 198
Home-sick: written in Germany 200
Answer to a Child's Question 202
The Visionary Hope 203
The Happy Husband 205
Recollections of Love 207
On revisiting the Sea-shore 209
Half-title
III. Meditative Poems. / In Blank Verse [211]
Motto—eight lines (translated) from Schiller [212]
Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouny 213
Lines written in an Album at Elbingerode, in the Hartz Forest 218
On Observing a Blossom on the First of February 221
The Eolian Harp 223
Reflections on having left a place of Retirement 227
To the Rev. George Coleridge 231
Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath 235
A Tombless Epitaph 237
This Lime-tree Bower my Prison 239
To a Friend who had declared his intention of writing no more Poetry 244
To a Gentleman [Wordsworth] composed on the night after his recitation of a Poem on the growth of an individual mind 247
[The Nightingale; a Conversation Poem 253]
Frost at Midnight 261
Half-title [265]
The Three Graves [267]
Half-title
Odes / And / Miscellaneous Poems [287]
Dejection, An Ode 289
Ode to Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire 296
Ode to Tranquillity 300
To a Young Friend, on his proposing to domesticate with the Author 302
Lines to W. L., Esq., while he sang a song to Purcell's Music 306
Addressed to a Young Man of Fortune 307
Sonnet To the River Otter 309
—— Composed on a journey homeward after hearing of the birth of a Son 310
—— To a Friend 311
The Virgin's Cradle Hymn 312
Epitaph on an Infant. ['Its balmy lips the Infant blest'] 313
Melancholy, A Fragment 314
Tell's Birth-place 315
A Christmas Carol 317
Human Life 320
The Visit of the Gods 321
Elegy, imitated from Akenside 324
Half-title
Kubla Khan: / Or, / A Vision In A Dream [327]
Of The Fragment Of Kubla Khan [329]
Kubla Khan [332]
[The Pains of Sleep 334]
Apologetic Preface to "Fire, Famine, and Slaughter" 337
END OF VOL. I
Volume II
Half-title
The Rime / of / The Ancient Mariner. / In Seven Parts. / [1]
Motto (From T. Burnet, Archæol. Phil., p. 68) [2]
The Ancient Mariner. Part I 3
Part II 8
Part III 12
Part IV 17
Part V 21
Part VI 27
Part VII 33
Half-title
Christabel [39]
Preface [41]
Christabel. Part I 43
Conclusion to Part I 56
Part II 59
Conclusion to Part II 73
Half-title
Prose in Rhyme: Or, / Epigrams, Moralities, and Things / Without a Name [75]
Mottoes:—
Ἔρωϛ ἀεὶ λάληθρος ἑταῖρος.
In many ways does the full heart reveal
The presence of the love it would conceal;
But in far more th' estranged heart lets know,
The absence of the love, which yet it fain would shew.
Duty surviving Self-love [77]
Song. ['Tho' veiled in spires,' &c.] 78
Phantom or Fact? A Dialogue in Verse 79
Work without Hope 81
Youth and Age 82
A Day-dream. ['My eyes make pictures,' &c.] 84
To a Lady, offended by a sportive observation 86
Reason for Love's Blindness 86
Lines suggested by the Last Words of Berengarius 87
The Devil's Thoughts 89
The Alienated Mistress 93
Constancy to an Ideal Object 94
The Suicide's Argument 96
The Blossoming of the Solitary Date-tree 97
Fancy in Nubibus 102
The Two Founts 103
Prefatory Note to the Wanderings of Cain 105
The Wanderings of Cain 109
Half-title
Remorse. / A Tragedy. / In Five Acts. / [119]
Remorse. A Tragedy 121
Appendix [232]
Half-title
Zapolya: / A Christmas Tale. / In Two Parts. [237]
Πὰρ πυρὶ χρὴ τοιαῦτα λέγειν χειμῶνος ἐν ὥρᾳ
Apud Athenæum.
Advertisement [238]
Part I. The Prelude / Entitled / "The Usurper's Fortune." / [241]
Part II. The Sequel / Entitled / "The Usurper's Fate" 274
Volume III
The Piccolomini, / Or / The First Part of Wallenstein. / A Drama. /
Translated from the German of Schiller / 1
The / Death of Wallenstein. / A Tragedy, / In Five Acts 249
XXI
The / Poetical Works / Of / S. T. Coleridge, / Including the Dramas of / Wallenstein, Remorse, and Zapolya. / In Three Volumes. / Vol. I, Vol. II, &c. / London: William Pickering. / mdcccxxix.
[8o.
Collation.—Vol. I. Title, one leaf, p. [iii]; The Imprint, Thomas White, Printer, / Johnson's Court. /, is at the foot of p. [iv]; Contents, pp. [v]-x; Preface, pp. [1]-7; Half-title, Juvenile Poems, p. [9]; Text, pp. [11]-353; The Imprint, Thomas White, &c., below a figure of a girl as in No. XX, is in the centre of p. 354.
[The Half-title and Mottoes are the same as in Vol. I of 1828, No. XX.]
Vol. II. Title, one leaf; The Imprint, Thomas White, Printer, / Johnson's Court. /, is at the foot of the Reverse, unpaged; Half-title, The Rime / of / The Ancient Mariner. / In Seven Parts. /, p. [1]; Motto from T. Burnet, Archæol. Phil., p. 68, p. [2]; Text, pp. [3]-394; The Imprint, Thomas White, &c., is at the foot of p. 394.
[The Half-titles and Mottoes are the same as in Vol. II of 1828, No. XX.]
Vol. III. For Collation see Vol. III of 1828, No. XX.
[The Title-page of this edition (Vols. I, II, III) is ornamented with the Aldine Device, and the Motto, Aldi / Discip. / Anglvs./]
PREFACE
The Preface is the same as that of 1808 and 1828, with the addition of the following passage (quoted as a foot-note to the sentence:—'I have pruned the double-epithets with no sparing hand; and used my best efforts to tame the swell and glitter both of thought and diction.')—'Without any feeling of anger, I may yet be allowed to express some degree of surprize, that after having run the critical gauntlet for a certain class of faults, which I had, viz. a too ornate, and elaborately poetic diction, and nothing having come before the judgement-seat of the Reviewers during the long interval, I should for at least seventeen years, quarter after quarter, have been placed by them in the foremost rank of the proscribed, and made to abide the brunt of abuse and ridicule for faults directly opposite, viz. bald and prosaic language, and an affected simplicity both of matter and manner—faults which assuredly did not enter into the character of my compositions.—Literary Life, i. 51. Published 1817.' In the Biog. Lit. (loc. cit.) the last seven lines of the quotation read as follows—'judgement-seat in the interim, I should, year after year, quarter after quarter, month after month (not to mention sundry petty periodicals of still quicker revolution, 'or weekly or diurnal') have been for at least seventeen years consecutively dragged forth by these into the foremost rank of the proscribed, and forced to abide the brunt of abuse, for faults directly opposite, and which I certainly had not. How shall I explain this?'
Contents.—The Contents of Vols. I and III are identical with the Contents of Vols. I and III of 1828 (No. XX): A 'Song' (Tho' veiled in spires of myrtle wreath), p. 78, and 'The Alienated Mistress: A Madrigal' (If Love be dead, &c.), p. 93 of Vol. II, 1828, are omitted in Vol. II of 1829; and 'The Allegoric Vision,' 'The Improvisatore, or John Anderson, My Jo, John' [New Thoughts on old Subjects], and 'The Garden of Boccaccio' are inserted in Vol. II of 1829; between 'The Wanderings of Cain' and 'Remorse', pp. 116-42. The text of 1829, which J. D. Campbell followed in P. W., 1893, differs from that of 1828.
XXII
The / Poetical Works / Of / Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. / Complete in One Volume. / Paris / Published by A. and W. Galignani / No. 18, Rue Vivienne / 1829. /
[8o.
Collation.—General half-title, one leaf; The imprint, Printed by Jules Didot Senior, / Printer to His Majesty, Rue du Pont-de-Lodi, No. 6, is on the reverse of the half-title; Title, one leaf, unpaged; Notice of the Publishers, one leaf, unpaged; half-title, The / Poetical Works / of / Samuel Taylor Coleridge. / pp. [i-ii]; Contents, pp. [iii]-iv; Memoir of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, pp. [v]-xi; Text, pp. [1]-225.
[Note.—A lithographed vignette of a Harp, &c., is in the centre of the title-page. The frontispiece consists of three portraits of Coleridge (Northcote), Shelley, and Keats, engraved by J. T. Wedgwood.
The contents are identical with those of 1829, with the following additions: (1) 'Recantation—illustrated in the story of the Mad Ox'; (2) 'The Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie' (as published in the Morning Post, Dec. 21, 1799); (3) 'The Composition of a Kiss'; (4) 'To a Friend together with an unpublished Poem'; (5) 'The Hour when we shall meet again'; (6) 'Lines to Joseph Cottle'; (7) 'On the Christening of a Friend's Child'; (8) 'The Fall of Robespierre'; (9) 'What is Life?'; (10) 'The Exchange'; (11) Seven Epigrams, viz. (1) 'Names'; (2) Job's Luck'; (3) 'Hoarse Maevius', &c.; (4) 'There comes from old Avaro's', &c.; (5) 'Last Monday', &c.; (6) 'Your Poem ', &c. (7) 'Swans sing', &c. ('Job's Luck' had been republished in The Crypt, 1827, and the other six in The Keepsake, 1829.) 'Fancy in Nubibus, or the Poet in the Clouds' (vide ante, p. 435), p. 216, was repeated on p. 217, under the title 'Sonnet, composed by the Seaside, October 1817', with two variants, 'yield' for 'let' in line 4, and 'To' for 'Own' in line 5. 'Love's Burial-Place', and Song, 'Tho' veiled', &c., which had appeared in 1828, were not included in Galignani, 1829.]
XXIII
The Devil's Walk; / A Poem. / By / Professor Porson. / Edited with a Biographical Memoir and Notes, By / H. W. Montagu, / Author of Montmorency, Poems, etc. etc. etc. / Illustrated with Beautiful Engravings on wood by Bonner and / Sladen, After the Designs of R. Cruikshank. / Γνωθι σεαυτον / London: / Marsh and Miller, Oxford Street. / And Constable and Co. Edinburgh. [1830.]
[12o.
Collation.—Title, one leaf, p. [iii]; The Imprint, London: / Printed by Samuel Bentley, / Dorset-Street, Fleet-Street, is in the centre of p. [iv]; Preface, pp. [v]-viii; Text, pp. [9]-32; 'Variations', p. 33; Advertisement of New Works Published by Marsh and Miller, p. [34]-[36].
[Note.—The motto Γνωθι κ.τ.λ may have suggested Coleridge's lines entitled 'Self-knowledge' (ante, p. 487). The Pamphlet is enclosed in a paper cover, The Devil's Walk; / By / Professor Porson. / With Illustrations by R. Cruikshank. / London: / Marsh and Miller. / 1830. / Price One Shilling. / The Illustrations consist of a Frontispiece and five others to face pp. 10, 14, 19, 24, and 31.]
XXIV
The Devil's Walk; / a Poem. / By / S. T. Coleridge, Esq. / And / Robert Southey, Esq. L.L. D. etc. / Edited with a Biographical Memoir, &c. (five lines as in No. XXIII). Γνωθι σεαυτον / Second Edition. / London: Alfred Miller, 137, Oxford Street; / And Constable, Edinburgh; / Griffin, Glasgow; and Milliken, Dublin. / [1830].
[12o.
Collation.—Title, one leaf, p. [iii]; The Imprint, as in No. XXIII, is in the centre of p. [iv]; Advertisement, pp. [v]-vi; Preface, pp. [vii]-x; Text, pp. 11-32; Variations, p. 33; Advertisement (as in No. XXIII), p. [34].
[Note.—The Advertisement, which is dated October, 1830, states that the 'Devil's Walk' 'has now put forth its fifteen thousandth copy', and apologizes for 'an error respecting its authorship'. The Second edition forms part of a volume entitled Facetiae, Being a General Collection of the Jeux d' Esprit which have been illustrated by Robert Cruikshank. London: William Kidd, 6, Old Bond Street. MDCCCXXXI. It is followed by the 'Devil's Visit', and 'The Real Devil's Walk.']
XXV
Ten Etchings, / Illustrations of the / Devil's Walk. / By / Thomas Landseer. / London: / Published by R. G. Standing, / 24, Cornhill. / 1831. /
[Folio.
Collation.—Title, one leaf, unpaged; The imprint, London: / Henry Baylis, Johnson's Court, Fleet-Street. /, is at the foot of the Reverse. The Devil's Walk. A Word at Starting, pp. 1-14, is followed by the illustrations, unpaged, with a single stanza at the foot of each illustration.
XXVI
The Poetical Works Of / S. T. Coleridge / Vol. I, Vol. II, &c. / London / William Pickering / 1834 /
[8o.
Collation.—Vol. I. Half-title, The Poetical Works Of / S. T. Coleridge / In Three Volumes / Vol. I, one leaf, p. [i]; Title, one leaf, pp. [iii]-[iv]; The Imprint, Charles Whittingham / London /, is at the foot of p. [iv]; Preface, pp. [v]-x; Contents, pp. [xi]-xiv; Text, pp. [1]-288; The Imprint, London: / Printed by C. Whittingham, Tooks Court. /, is at the foot of p. 288.
Vol. II. Half-title (as in Vol. I), Vol. II, one leaf, pp. [i]-[ii]; Title, one leaf, pp. [iii]-[iv]; The Imprint (as in Vol. I) is at the foot of p. iv: Contents, pp. [v]-vi; Text, pp. [1]-338; The Imprint (as in Vol. I) is at the foot of p. 338.
Vol. III. Half-title (as in Vol. I), pp. [i]-[ii]; Title, one leaf, pp. [iii]-[iv]; The Imprint (as in Vol. I) is at the foot of p. [iv]; Half-title, The Piccolomini, &c., p. [1]; Preface to the First Edition, p. [3]; Text, pp. [5]-330; 'Love, Hope, and Patience in Education', p. 331; Erratum, p. [332]; The Imprint (as in Vol. I) is at the foot of p. [332].
[Note.—This edition, the last printed in the lifetime of the author, was reprinted in 1835, 1840, 1844, 1847, &c. The Title-page is ornamented with the Aldine device and motto as in No. XXI.]
CONTENTS
[Preface, same as 1829, No. XXI, pp. [v]-x; the titles of Poems not published or collected before 1834 are italicized.]
Page Page of the
1834 present
edition
Half-title
Juvenile Poems [1]
Genevieve 3 19
Sonnet. To the Autumnal Moon 3 5
Anthem for the Children of Christ's Hospital 4 5
Time, real and imaginary 5 419
Monody on the Death of Chatterton 6 13
Songs of the Pixies 13 40
The Raven 18 169
Music 20 28
Devonshire Roads 21 27
Inside the Coach 22 26
Mathematical Problem 23 21
The Nose 27 8
Monody on a Tea-Kettle 29 18
Absence, a Farewell Ode 30 29
Sonnet. On Leaving School 31 29
To the Muse 32 9
With Fielding's Amelia 33 37
Sonnet. On hearing that his Sister's Death was inevitable 33 20
On Seeing a Youth affectionately welcomed by a Sister 34 21
The same 35 78
Pain 35 17
Life 36 11
Lines on an Autumnal Evening 36 51
The Rose 40 45
The Kiss 41 63
To a Young Ass 43 74
Happiness 44 30
Domestic Peace 48 71
The Sigh 48 62
Epitaph on an Infant 49 68
On Imitation 50 26
Honor 50 24
Progress of Vice 53 12
Lines written at the King's Arms, Ross 54 57
Destruction of the Bastile 55 10
Lines to a beautiful Spring in a Village 57 58
On a Friend who died of a Frenzy Fever induced by calumnious reports 58 76
To a Young Lady, with a Poem on the French Revolution 60 64
Sonnet I. "My Heart has thanked thee, Bowles" 62 84
—— II. "As late I lay in Slumber's Shadowy Vale." 63 80
—— III. "Though roused by that dark vizir Riot rude" 64 81
—— IV. "When British Freedom for a happier land" 64 79
—— V. "It was some Spirit, Sheridan!" 65 87
—— VI. "O what a loud and fearful shriek" 66 82
—— VII. "As when far off" 66 82
—— VIII. "Thou gentle look" 67 47
—— IX. "Pale Roamer through the Night!" 68 71
—— X. "Sweet Mercy!" 68 93
—— XI. "Thou Bleedest, my Poor Heart!". 69 72
—— XII. To the Author of the Robbers. 70 72
Lines composed while climbing Brockley Coomb 70 94
Lines in the Manner of Spenser 71 94
Imitated from Ossian 73 38
The Complaint of Ninathoma 74 39
Imitated from the Welsh 75 58
To an Infant 75 91
Lines in Answer to a Letter from Bristol 76 96
To a Friend in Answer to a melancholy Letter 80 90
Religious Musings 82 108
The Destiny of Nations, a Vision 98 131
Half-title
Sibylline Leaves. / I. Poems occasioned by Political Events / Or Feelings Connected / With them. / [119]
Motto—When I have borne in memory, &c. (fourteen lines), Wordsworth [120]
Ode to the Departing Year [121] 160
France, an Ode 128 243
Fears in Solitude 132 256
Fire, Famine, and Slaughter 141 237
II. Love Poems [145]
Motto—eleven lines from a Latin poem of Petrarch [145]
Love [145] 330
The Ballad of the Dark Ladie. A Fragment 150 293
Lewti, or the Circassian Love Chaunt 152 253
The Picture, or the Lover's Resolution 155 369
The Night Scene, a Dramatic Fragment 162 421
To an Unfortunate Woman 166 172
To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre 167 171
Lines Composed in a Concert Room 168 324
The Keepsake 170 345
To a Lady, with Falconer's Shipwreck 172 424
To a Young Lady on her recovery from a Fever 173 252
Something Childish, but very Natural 174 313
Home-sick: written in Germany 175 314
Answer to a Child's Question 176 386
A Child's Evening Prayer 176 401
The Visionary Hope 177 416
The Happy Husband 178 388
Recollections of Love 179 409
On revisiting the Sea-Shore 181 359
III. Meditative Poems. / In Blank Verse [183]
Motto—eight lines translated from Schiller [183]
Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni 183 376
Lines written in the Album at Elbingerode in the Hartz Forest 187 315
On observing a Blossom on the First of February 189 148
The Æolian Harp 190 100
Reflections on having left a place of Retirement 393 106
To the Rev. George Coleridge 196 173
Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath 199 381
A Tombless Epitaph 200 413
This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison 201 178
To a Friend, who had declared his intention of writing no more Poetry 205 158
To William Wordsworth, composed on the night after his recitation of a Poem on the growth of an individual mind 206 403
The Nightingale 211 264
Frost at Midnight 216 240
The Three Graves 219 267
Odes and Miscellaneous Poems 235
Dejection, an Ode 235 362
Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire 241 335
Ode to Tranquillity 244 360
To a Young Friend, on his proposing to domesticate with the Author 246
Lines to W. L. while he sang a song to Purcell's Music 249 286
Addressed to a Young Man of Fortune 249 157
Sonnet. To the River Otter 250 48
—— Composed on a journey homeward after hearing of the birth of a son 251 153
—— To a Friend 252 154
The Virgin's Cradle Hymn 252 417
Epitaph on an Infant 253 417
Melancholy, a Fragment 253 73
Tell's Birth Place 254 309
A Christmas Carol 256 338
Human Life 258 425
Moles 259 430
The Visit of the Gods 259 310
Elegy, imitated from Akenside 261 69
Separation 262 397
On Taking Leave of —— 263 410
The Pang more sharp than all 263 457
Kubla Khan 266 295
The Pains of Sleep 270 389
Limbo 272 429
Ne plus ultra 273 431
Apologetic Preface to Fire, Famine, and Slaughter 274
END OF VOL. I
Volume II
The Ancient Mariner.
Part I. 1 187
" II. 5 189
" III. 7 192
" IV. 10 196
" V. 13 198
" VI. 18 202
" VII. 23 206
Christabel, Part I 28 213
Conclusion to Part I 39 225
Part II 41 227
Conclusion to Part II 53 235
Half-title
Miscellaneous Poems [55]
Motto Ἔρωϛ ἀεί, &c. In many ways, &c. (four lines)
Alice du Clos; or, the Forked Tongue. A Ballad 57 469
The Knight's Tomb 64 432
Hymn to the Earth 65 327
Written during a temporary blindness, 1799 67 305
Mahomet 68 329
Catullian Hendecasyllables 69 307
Duty surviving Self-Love 69 459
Phantom or Fact? a dialogue in Verse 70 484
Phantom 71 393
Work without Hope 71 447
Youth and Age 72 439
A Day Dream 74 385
First Advent of Love 76 443
Names 76 318
Desire 77 485
Love and Friendship opposite 77 484
Not at home 77 484
To a Lady offended by a sportive observation 78 418
Lines suggested by the Last Words of Berengarius 79 460
Sancti Dominici Pallium 80 448
The Devil's Thoughts 83 319
The two round Spaces on the Tombstone 87 353
Lines to a Comic Author 89 476
Constancy to an Ideal Object 90 455
The Suicide's Argument 91 419
The Blossoming of the Solitary Date Tree 92 395
From the German 95 311
Fancy in Nubibus 96 435
The Two Founts 96 454
The Wanderings of Cain 99 288
Allegoric Vision 109 1091
New Thoughts on Old Subjects 117 462
The Garden of Boccaccio 127 478
On a Cataract 131 308
Love's Apparition and Evanishment 132 488
Morning Invitation to a Child 133
Consolation of a Maniac 135
A Character 137 451
The Reproof and Reply 140 441
Cholera Cured beforehand 142
Cologne 144 477
On my joyful departure from the same City 144 477
Written in an Album 145
To the Author of the Ancient Mariner 145
Metrical Feet. Lesson for a Boy 145 401
The Homeric Hexameter described and exemplified 146 307
The Ovidian Hexameter described and exemplified 146 308
To the Young Artist, Kayser of Kayserworth 147 490
Job's Luck 147
On a Volunteer Singer 148
On an Insignificant 148
Profuse Kindness 148
Charity in Thought 148 486
Humility the Mother of Charity 149 486
On an Infant which died before Baptism 149 312
On Berkeley and Florence Coleridge 149
"Γνῶθι σεαυτόν, &c. 150 487
"Gently I took," &c. 151 488
My Baptismal Birthday 151 490
Epitaph 152 491
Half-title
Remorse! / A Tragedy. / In Five Acts. / [153]
Dramatis Personae. [154] 819
Remorse. 155 820
Appendix. [237] 881
Half-title, Motto, &c.
Zapolya: / A Christmas Tale / In Two Parts / [241]
Advertisement. [242] 883
Zapolya. [243] 884
END OF VOL. II
Volume III
Half-title
The Piccolomini; / Or, the First Part of Wallenstein. / A Drama. /Translated from the German of Schiller. / [1]
Preface to the First edition [3] 598
The Piccolomini [5] 600
Half-title
The / Death of Wallenstein. / A Tragedy. / In Five Acts: / [193]
Preface of The Translator / To the First Edition. / [195] 724
Dramatis Personae [198] 726
The Death of Wallenstein [199] 726
Love, Hope, and Patience in Education 331 481
Erratum [332]
XXVII
The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; With a Life of the Author. London: John Thomas Cox, 84 High Holborn. mdcccxxxvi.
[8o, pp. lxxviii + 403.
The Life of the Author is followed by an Appendix containing 'Coleridge's Will', and 'Contemporary Notices of the Writings and Character of Coleridge'.
The Contents consist of the Poems published in 1797, together with 'The Nightingale'; 'Love'; 'The Ancient Mariner'; 'The Foster Mother's Tale'; four poems and seven sonnets reprinted from 1796; 'On a late Connubial Rupture'; and the 'Three Sonnets . . . in the manner of Contemporary Writers' reprinted from the Poetical Register. The Poems conclude with 'A Couplet, written in a volume of Poems presented by Mr. Coleridge to Dr. A.'—a highly respected friend, the loss of whose society he deeply regretted—
To meet, to know, to love—and then to part, Is the sad tale of many a human heart.
For the 'Couplet', vide ante, p. 410, 'To Two Sisters', ll. 1, 2. Dr. A. was probably John Anster, LL.D., the translator of Goethe's Faust.
The Dramatic Works consist of 'The Piccolomini' and 'The Death of Wallenstein'.
XXVIII
The Poetical And Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with a Life of the Author. London: Thos. Allman 42 Holborn Hill 1837.
[16mo, pp. viii + 392.
Note.—The 'Life of the Author' does not form part of this edition. The Contents are identical with those of No. XXVII. The frontispiece depicts the 'Ancient Mariner' and the 'Wedding Guest'. The title-page, 'Drawn and Engraved by J. Romney,' is embellished with a curious vignette depicting a man in a night-cap lying in bed. A wife, or daughter, is in attendance. The vignette was probably designed to illustrate some other work.
XXIX
The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge with Life of the Author. London: Charles Daly, 14, Leicester Street, Leicester Square, n. d.
[16mo, pp. xxxii + [35]-384.
The Contents consist of 'The Ancient Mariner' (with the marginal glosses printed at the end of the poem); the Poems of 1796, 1797, with a few exceptions: 'The Piccolomini'; 'The Death of Wallenstein'; 'The Dark Ladié'; 'The Raven'; 'A Christmas Carol'; and 'Fire, Famine, and Slaughter'—i. e. of poems then out of copyright, or reprinted from the Morning Post.
XXX
The Ancient Mariner, and other Poems. By S. T. Coleridge. Price Sixpence. London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, Paternoster-Row. mdcccxliii. J. Scott, Printer, 50, Hatfield Street.
[16mo, pp. iv + 148.
Note.—This edition formed one of the 'Pocket English Classics'. An illustrated title-page depicts the 'skiff-boat' with its crew of the Ancient Mariner, the Holy Hermit, the Pilot, and the Pilot's boy, who is jumping overboard. The flag bears the legend 'The Antient Mariner and Minor Poems By S. T. Coleridge'. The Contents include 'The Ancient Mariner', with the marginal glosses printed at the end of the poem; and a selection of poems published in 1796, 1797.
XXXI
The Poems of S. T. Coleridge [Aldine device and motto] London William Pickering 1844.
[8o, pp. xvi + 372.
Note.—The Contents of this volume, issued by Mrs. H. N. Coleridge as sole editress, consist of the Poems (not the Dramatic Works) included in 1834, with the following omissions, (1) Music, (2) Devonshire Roads, (3) Inside the Coach, (4) Mathematical Problem, (5) The Nose, (6) Monody on a Tea-kettle, (7) 'The Same,' 'I too a sister had', &c., (8) On Imitation, (9) Honor, (10) Progress of Vice, (11) The Two round spaces on the Tombstone; and the following additions, already republished in Lit. Remains, 1836, Vol. I, (1) Epigram, 'Hoarse Mævius', &c., (2) Casimir ad Lyram, (3) On the Christening of a Friend's Child, (4) Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie, (5) An Ode to the Rain, (6) The Exchange, (7) Complaint, 'How seldom, Friend', &c., (8) 'What is Life', (9) Inscription for a Time-Piece, (10) Ἐπιτάφιον αὐτόγραπτον. Four songs from the dramas were also included. The German originals of (1) Schiller's 'Lines on a Cataract', (2) Friederike Brun's 'Chamouny at Sunrise', and (3) Schiller's distiches on the 'Homeric Hexameter' and the 'Ovidian Elegiac Metre' are printed on pp. 371, 372.
XXXII
The Poems of S. T. Coleridge [Aldine device and motto] London William Pickering 1848.
[8o, pp. xvi + 372.
The Contents are identical with those of No. XXXI, with the exception of two additional 'Notes' (pp. 371, 372) containing the German original of Matthisson's Milesisches Märchen, and two stanzas of Cotton's Chlorinda, of which 'Separation' (ante, p. 397) is an adaptation.
XXXIII
The Raven, A Christmas Tale, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Esq. Illustrated with Eight Plates, By an Old Traveller. [n. d.]
Collation.—Oblong folio, pp. i-vi + eight scenes unpaged, faced by eight lithographs.
XXXIV
The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by Derwent and Sara Coleridge. A New Edition. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. 1852.
[8o, pp. xxvii ('Advertisement', and 'Editors' Preface to the Present Edition', pp. [v]-xiv) + 378 + 'Notes', pp. [379]-388.
ADVERTISEMENT
This volume was prepared for the press by my lamented sister, Mrs. H. N. Coleridge, and will have an additional interest to many readers as the last monument of her highly-gifted mind. At her earnest request, my name appears with hers on the title-page, but the assistance rendered by me has been, in fact, little more than mechanical. The preface, and the greater part of the notes, are her composition:—the selection and arrangement have been determined almost exclusively by her critical judgment, or from records in her possession. A few slight corrections and unimportant additions are all that have been found necessary, the first and last sheets not having had the benefit of her own revision.
Derwent Coleridge.
St. Mark's College, Chelsea, May 1852.
PREFACE TO THE PRESENT EDITION [1852]
As a chronological arrangement of Poetry in completed collections is now beginning to find general favour, pains have been taken to follow this method in the present Edition of S. T. Coleridge's Poetical and Dramatic Works, as far as circumstances permitted—that is to say, as far as the date of composition of each poem was ascertainable, and as far as the plan could be carried out without effacing the classes into which the Author had himself distributed his most important poetical publication, the 'Sibylline Leaves,' namely, Poems occasioned by Political Events, or Feelings connected with them; Love Poems; Meditative Poems in blank verse; Odes and Miscellaneous Poems. On account of these impediments, together with the fact, that many a poem, such as it appears in its ultimate form, is the growth of different periods, the agreement with chronology in this Edition is approximative rather than perfect: yet in the majority of instances the date of each piece has been made out, and its place fixed accordingly.
In another point of view also, the Poems have been distributed with relation to time: they are thrown into three broad groups, representing, first the Youth,—secondly, the Early Manhood and Middle Life,—thirdly, the Declining Age of the Poet; and it will be readily perceived that each division has its own distinct tone and colour, corresponding to the period of life in which it was composed. It has been suggested, indeed, that Coleridge had four poetical epochs, more or less diversely characterised,—that there is a discernible difference betwixt the productions of his Early Manhood and of his Middle Age, the latter being distinguished from those of his Stowey life, which may be considered as his poetic prime, by a less buoyant spirit. Fire they have; but it is not the clear, bright, mounting fire of his earlier poetry, conceived and executed when 'he and youth were house-mates still.' In the course of a very few years after three-and-twenty all his very finest poems were produced; his twenty-fifth year has been called his annus mirabilis. To be a 'Prodigal's favourite—[1169:1]then, worse truth! a Miser's pensioner,' is the lot of Man. In respect of poetry, Coleridge was a 'Prodigal's favourite,' more, perhaps, than ever Poet was before.
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[The poems] produced before the Author's twenty-fourth year [1796], devoted as he was to the 'soft strains' of Bowles, have more in common with the passionate lyrics of Collins and the picturesque wildness of the pretended Ossian, than with the well-tuned sentimentality of that Muse which the overgrateful poet has represented as his earliest inspirer. For the young they will ever retain a peculiar charm, because so fraught with the joyous spirit of youth; and in the minds of all readers that feeling which disposes men 'to set the bud above the rose full-blown' would secure them an interest, even if their intrinsic beauty and sweetness were less adequate to obtain it.
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The present Editors have been guided in the general arrangement of this edition by those of 1817 and 1828, which may be held to represent the author's matured judgment upon the larger and more important part of his poetical productions. They have reason, indeed, to believe, that the edition of 1828 was the last upon which he was able to bestow personal care and attention. That of 1834, the last year of his earthly sojourning, a period when his thoughts were wholly engrossed, so far as the decays of his frail outward part left them free for intellectual pursuits and speculations, by a grand scheme of Christian Philosophy, to the enunciation of which in a long projected work his chief thoughts and aspirations had for many years been directed, was arranged mainly, if not entirely, at the discretion of his earliest Editor, H. N. Coleridge . . . Such alterations only have been made in this final arrangement of the Poetical and Dramatic Works of S. T. Coleridge, by those into whose charge they have devolved, as they feel assured, both the Author himself and his earliest Editor would at this time find to be either necessary or desirable. The observations and experience of eighteen years, a period long enough to bring about many changes in literary opinion, have satisfied them that the immature essays of boyhood and adolescence, not marked with any such prophetic note of genius as certainly does belong to the four school-boy poems they have retained, tend to injure the general effect of a body of poetry. That a writer, especially a writer of verse, should keep out of sight his third-rate performances, is now become a maxim with critics; for they are not, at the worst, effectless: they have an effect, that of diluting and weakening, to the reader's feelings, the general power of the collection. Mr. Coleridge himself constantly, after 1796, rejected a certain portion of his earliest published Juvenilia: never printed any attempts of his boyhood, except those four with which the present publication commences, and there can be no doubt that the Editor of 1834 would ere now have come to the conclusion, that only such of the Author's early performances as were sealed by his own approval ought to form a permanent part of the body of his poetical works.
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It must be added, that time has robbed of their charm certain sportive effusions of Mr. Coleridge's later years, which were given to the public in the first gloss and glow of novelty in 1834, and has proved that, though not devoid of the quality of genius, they possess upon the whole, not more than an ephemeral interest. These the Editors have not scrupled to omit on the same grounds and in the same confidence that has been already explained.
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S. C.
Chester Place, Regent's Park. March, 1852.
The Contents of 1852 correspond with those of 1844, 1848, with the following omissions: (1) Anthem for the Children of Christ's Hospital; (2) Sonnet, 'Farewell, parental scenes', &c.; (3) To the Muse; (4) With Fielding's Amelia; (5) Sonnet, 'On receiving an account', &c.; (6) Sonnet, 'On seeing a Youth', &c.; (7) Pain; (8) Epigram, 'Hoarse Mævius', &c.; (9) Casimir ad Lyram; (10) 'On the Christening', &c.; (11) Elegy imitated from Akenside; (12) Phantom; (13) Allegoric Vision; (14) Reproof and Reply; (15) Written in an Album, 'Parry', &c.; (16) To the Author of the Ancient Mariner; (17) Job's Luck; (18) On a Volunteer Singer; together with four songs from the dramas.
The additions were (1) Sonnet to Pitt, 'Not always', &c.; (2) Sonnet, 'Not Stanhope', &c.; (3) To the Author of Poems published anonymously at Bristol; (4) The Day-Dream, 'If thou wert here', &c.; (5) The Foster-Mother's Tale; (6) A Hymn; (7) The Alienated Mistress. A Madrigal; (8) To a Lady, 'Tis not the lily brow', &c.; (9) Song, 'Tho' veiled', &c.; (10) L'envoy. 'In vain we supplicate', &c.
The Notes, pp. 379-88, contain, inter alia, the Latin original of 'Kisses' (vide ante, p. 46), and the Sonnet, 'No more my visionary Soul shall dwell', attributed by Southey to Favell (vide ante, p. 68).
XXXV
The Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by Derwent Coleridge. A New Edition. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. 1852.
[8o, pp. xvi + 427.
CONTENTS
Remorse. A Tragedy in Five Acts.
Zapolya. A Christmas Tale. In two Parts. Part I. The Prelude, &c.
Zapolya. Part II. The Sequel, entitled 'The Usurper's Fate.'
The Piccolomini; or the first part of 'Wallenstein.' A Drama. Translated from Schiller.
The Death of Wallenstein. A Tragedy. In Five Acts.
Notes.
Note.—The Preface contains a critical estimate of Remorse and Zapolya, and of the translation of Schiller's Wallenstein. At the close of the Preface [pp. xii-xiv] the Editor comments on the strictures of a writer in the Westminster Review, Art. 3 July 1850 (vide ante, p. 811), and upholds the merits of the Translation as a whole. The Preface is dated 'St. Mark's College, Chelsea, July, 1852'.
XXXVI
The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. With an Introductory Essay upon his Philosophical and Theological opinions. Edited by Professor Shedd. In Seven Volumes. Vol. vii. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Nos. 329 and 331 Pearl Street, Franklin Square. 1853.
Second Title.—The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1853.
[8o, pp. xiv + 15-702.
The Contents are identical with those of 1834, with ten additions first collected in 1844. The Fall of Robespierre is included in the Dramatic Works. 'Lines in Answer to a Letter from Bristol', pp. 67-70, are reprinted as 'Lines Written at Shurton Bars near Bridgewater', pp. 103-5 (vide ante, p. 96). Vol. vii was republished with an Index to the preceding six volumes in 1854.
XXXVII
The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by Derwent and Sara Coleridge. With a Biographical Memoir By Ferdinand Freiligrath. Copyright Edition. Leipzig Bernhard Tauchnitz 1860.
Collation.—General Half-title, one leaf, Collection of British Authors. Vol. 512. The Poems, &c. (4 lines). In One Volume, p. [i]; Title, p. [iii]; Half-title, Biographical Memoir of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. By Ferdinand Freiligrath, p. [iv]; Advertisements, p. [v]; Biographical Memoir, pp. [vi]-xxviii; Advertisement (to ed. of 1852), p. xxix; Preface, pp. [xxxi]-xl; Contents, pp. [xli]-xlv. Text, pp. [1]-336; Notes, pp. [337]-344.
XXXVIII
The Poems of S. T. Coleridge. London: Bell and Daldy. 1862.
[16mo, pp. xiii + 299.
XXXIX
The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by Derwent and Sara Coleridge. With an Appendix. A New Edition. London: Edward Moxon & Co., Dover Street. 1863.
[8o, pp. xxvii + [1]-378 + Notes, pp. [379]-388 + Appendix, pp. [391]-404.
The text of the Poems is identical with that of 1852, but a fresh 'Advertisement', pp. [iii]-iv, is prefixed to the 'Advertisement' dated May, 1852.
ADVERTISEMENT
The last authorised edition of S. T. Coleridge's Poems, published by Mr. Moxon in 1852, bears the names of Derwent and Sara Coleridge, as joint editors. In writing my name with my sister's, I yielded to her particular desire and request, but the work was performed almost entirely by herself. My opinion was consulted as to the general arrangement, and more especially as to the choice or rejection of particular pieces. Even here I had no occasion to do more than confirm the conclusions to which she had herself arrived, and sanction the course which she had herself adopted. I shared in the responsibility, but cannot claim any share in the credit of the undertaking. This edition I propose to leave intact as it came from her own hands. I wish it to remain as one among other monuments of her fine taste, her solid judgment, and her scrupulous conscientiousness.
A few pieces of some interest appear, however, to have been overlooked. Two characteristic sonnets, not included in any former edition of the Poems, have been preserved in an anonymous work, entitled 'Letters, Recollections, and Conversations of S. T. Coleridge.' These with a further selection from the omitted pieces, principally from the Juvenile Poems, have been added in an Appendix. So placed, they will not at any rate interfere with the general effect of the collection, while they add to its completeness.
All these buds of promise were once withdrawn, and, afterwards reproduced by the Author. It is not easy now to draw a line of separation, which shall not be deemed either too indulgent, or too severe. [The concluding lines of the 'Advertisement' dealt with questions of copyright].
Derwent Coleridge.
APPENDIX
[First printed in 1863.]
1. To Nature. [Letters, Conversations, &c., 1836, i. 144.]
2. Farewell to Love. [Ibid., i. 143.]
3. 'I yet remain', &c. [First six lines by W. L. Bowles.]
4. Count Rumford's Essays. [By W. L. Bowles.]
5. 'The early Year's', &c. [Ver perpetuum, ante, p. 148.]
6. To the Rev. W. J. H. [1796.]
7. To a Primrose. [The Watchman.]
8. On the Christening of a Friend's Child. [1797.]
9. Mutual Passion. [Sibylline Leaves.]
10. From a Young Lady. [The Silver Thimble, ante, p. 104.]
11. Translation of a Paraphrase of the Gospels. [Biog. Lit., 1807, i. 203, 204.]
12. Israel's Lament. [Ante, pp. 433, 434.]
Notes.—(1) No. 4 forms part of a Poem 'On Mr. Howard's Account of Lazarettos,' Sonnets, with other Poems, 1794, pp. 52, 53. See Mr. T. Hutchinson's note in the Athenæum, May 3, 1902.
(2) An MS. of No. 10, 'From a Young Lady', is preserved in the library of Rugby School. The poem is dated August, 1795, and is partly in the 'Young Lady's' handwriting. It is signed 'Sarah Fricker', a proof that her future husband meant from the first to alter the spelling of her name.
(3) The frontispiece of this edition is a lithograph by W. Hall of a portrait of Coleridge, aet. 26, formerly in the possession of Thomas Poole.
XL
The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by Derwent and Sara Coleridge. With an Appendix. A new and enlarged edition, with a brief Life of the author. London: E. Moxon and Co., 44 Dover Street. [1870.]
[8o, pp. lxvii + 429.
Note.—The Contents of 1870 are identical with those of 1863, with the addition of an Introductory Essay (i. e. a Critical Memoir) by Derwent Coleridge, pp. xxiii-lix. 'The Rime of the Ancyent Mariner,' in Seven Parts, was reprinted verbatim from the original as it appeared in Lyrical Ballads, 1798. The Introductory Memoir (an 'Essay in a Brief Model') has never been reprinted.
XLI
The Raven. A Poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Illustrated by Ella Hallward With an Introduction by the Hon. Stephen Coleridge. H. S. Nichols Ltd, 39 Charing Cross Road London W.C. mdcccxcviii.
[4o.
Note.—The text is printed on 14 sheets, unpaged. There are thirteen illustrations and other embellishments.
XLII
Osorio A Tragedy As originally written in 1797 By Samuel Taylor Coleridge Now first printed from a Copy recently discovered by the Publisher with the Variorum Readings of 'Remorse' and a Monograph on The History of the Play in its earlier and later form by the Author of 'Tennysoniana' London John Pearson York Street Covent Garden 1873.
[8o, pp. xxii + 204.
XLIII
The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Edited with an Introductory Memoir and Illustrations by William B. Scott. London. George Routledge and Sons. [1874.]
[8o, pp. xxviii + 420.
XLIV
The Poetical Works of Coleridge and Keats With a Memoir of Each Four Volumes in Two. New York Published by Hurd and Houghton Boston: H. O. Houghton and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge. 1878.
[8o.
Vol. I, pp. cxl + 372.
Vol. II, pp. vi + 331 + pp. xxxvi + 438 (Life and Poetical Works of Keats).
Note.—This edition was a reprint of the 'Poetical and Dramatic Works' of 1852.
XLV
The Poetical And Dramatic Works Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Founded On The Author's Latest Edition Of 1834 With Many Additional Pieces Now First Included, And A Collection Of Various Readings Volume the First [Volume the Second, &c.] [The Aldine device and motto.] London Basil Montagu Pickering 196 Piccadilly 1877. [Reissued, with additions and with the imprint of London Macmillan and Co. 1880.]
Contents.—Vol. I. Contents, &c., pp. viii; Memoir of S. T. Coleridge, pp. [ix]-cxviii; Poems, pp. [1]-217; Appendix (including Southey's Translation of a 'Greek Ode on Astronomy', &c.), pp. 219-224.
Vol. II. Contents, &c., pp. xii; Poems, pp. [1]-352; Supplement, pp. 355*-364*; Appendix, pp. 353-381.
Vol. III. Remorse, and Zapolya, pp. 290.
Vol. IV. Fall of Robespierre, and Translation of Schiller's 'Wallenstein', pp. 413.
Note.—The Editor, Richard Herne Shepherd, included in the first two volumes the poems published by Coleridge in 1796, 1797, An. Anth., 1800, 1803, Sibylline Leaves (1817), 1828, 1829, 1834, together with those published by H. N. Coleridge in Literary Remains, 1836, by Sara and Derwent Coleridge in 1844, 1852 (with the exception of the Hymn, 1814), and by Derwent Coleridge in the Appendix of 1863.
The following poems collected from various sources were reprinted for the first time:—
Vol. I. (1) Julia; (2) First version of the Sonnet to the Rev. W. L. Bowles; (3) On a late Connubial Rupture; (4) Sonnets signed Nehemiah Higginbottom.
Vol. II. (1) Talleyrand to Lord Granville; (2) A Stranger Minstrel; (3) To Two Sisters, &c.; (4) Water Ballad; (5) Modern Critics; (6) 'The Poet in his lone', &c. [Apologia, &c., ante, p. 345]; (7) Song, ex improviso, &c.; (8) The Old Man of the Alps; (9) Three Epigrams from The Watchman; (10) Sonnet on the birth of a son; (11) On Deputy ——; (12) To a Musical Critic; (13) Εγωενκαιπαν; (14) The Bridge-street Committee; (15) 'What boots to tell', &c.; (16) Mr. Baker's Courtship; (17) Lines in a German Student's Album; (18) On Kepler; (19) Distich from the Greek.
The Supplement published in 1880 (Vol. II, pp. 355*-364*) contains (1) Monody on Chatterton [First Version]; (2) To the Evening Star; (3) Anna and Harland; (4) Translation of Wrangham's Hendecasyllabi, &c.; (5) To Miss Brunton; (6) The Mad Monk. Bibliographical matter of interest and importance is contained in the Memoir, and in the Notes to Vol. II, pp. 375-381. Variants of the text, derived from the Morning Post, and from earlier editions, are printed as footnotes to the text. In Vol. III. the Editor supplies a collation of the text of Remorse as published in 1852 with that of Osorio [London: John Pearson, 1873] and with that of the First and Second Editions of Remorse published in 1813.
XLVI
The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. With Life. Engravings on Steel. Gale and Inglis. Edinburgh: Bernard Terrace. London: 26 Paternoster Square. [1881.]
[8o, pp. xxviii + 420.
Note.—This edition includes the Fall of Robespierre, and Christobell. A Gothic Tale as published in the European Magazine, April, 1815.
XLVII
The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Edited with Introduction and Notes by T. Ashe, B.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge In Two Volumes. London George Bell and Sons, York Street Covent Garden 1885. [The Frontispiece of Vol. I is a portrait of S. T. Coleridge, aet. 23, from a crayon drawing by Robert Hancock: of Vol. II, a view of Greta Hall, Keswick.]
[8o.
Vol. I. Title, &c., pp. [iii]-xiv; Introduction, &c., pp. [xv]-clxxxvi; Poems, pp. 1-212.
Vol. II. Contents, &c., pp. [v]-xiii; Poems, pp. 1-409.
Note.—Section 3 of the Introduction, pp. cxxxviii-clxxxvi, supplies a Bibliography of the Poems. The Dramas are not included in the Poetical Works. In the 'Table of Contents' poems not included in 1834 are marked by an asterisk, but of these only three, (1) 'The Tears of a Grateful People'; (2) 'The Humour of Pallas' ['My Godmother's Beard'], and (3) 'Lines written in the Common Place Book of Miss Barbour', were collected for the first time. The 'Introduction', the work of a genuine poet, contains much that is valuable and interesting, but the edition as a whole is by no means an advancement on P. and D. W., 1877-1880.
XLVIII
The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Edited with a Biographical Introduction by James Dykes Campbell London Macmillan and Co. And New York 1893 All rights reserved.
[8o, pp. cxxiv + 667.
Contents.—Authorities cited in the Introduction—Corrigenda, p. vi; Preface, pp. [vii]-x; Introduction, pp. [xi]-cxxiv; Poems, pp. [1]-210; Dramatic Works, pp. [211]-442; Addenda, (i) Epigrams, pp. [443]-453, (ii) Fragments from a Common Place Book, pp. 453-458, (iii) Fragments from various sources, pp. [459]-470; (iv) Adaptations, pp. [471]-474; Appendix A. The Raven, pp. [475]-476; Appendix B. Greek Prize Ode, &c. [from MS.], pp. 476-477; Appendix C. To a Young Ass [from MS.], pp. 477-478; Appendix D. Osorio [from MSS.], pp. 479-512; Appendix E. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner [1798], pp. 512-520; Appendix F. Mont Blanc. The Summit of the Vale of Chamouny, an Hour before Sunrise—An Hymn (Coleorton Letters, 1887, i. 26-29), pp. 521-522; Appendix G. Dejection: An Ode (M. P., Oct. 4, 1802), pp. 522-524; Appendix H. To a Gentleman [W. Wordsworth] (Coleorton Letters, i. 213-218), pp. 525-526; Appendix I. Apologetic Preface to 'Fire, Famine and Slaughter', pp. 527-533; Appendix J. Allegoric Verses, pp. 534-537; Appendix K. Titles, Prefaces, and Contents, &c., pp. 537-559; Notes, pp. [561]-654; Index to the Poems, &c., pp. [655]-659; Index to First Lines, pp. [661]-667.
The Poems include all those published in 1877-1880 with the addition of the Hymn, first published in 1852, and the omission of 'The Old Man of the Alps' (M. P., Apr. 13, 1798) together with the following pieces collected for the first time (*), or printed for the first time from MSS. (MS.):—(1) Dura Navis (MS.); (2) Nil pejus, &c. (MS.); (3) Quae nocent, &c. (MS.); (4) Invocation (MS.); (5) On a Lady Weeping (MS.); (6) A Wish written, &c. (MS.); (7) An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon (MS.); (8) A Lover's Complaint, &c.; (9) To Fortune (*); (10) The Faded Flower (*); (11) On Bala Hill [by R. Southey] (MS.); (12) Count Rumford [by W. L. Bowles] (*); (13) Verses to J. Horne Tooke (*); (14) Ad Vilmum Axiologum (MS.); (15) The Snowdrop (MS.); (16) To Matilda Betham, &c. (*); (17) Homeless (*); (18) Sonnet. Translated from Marini (MS.) (19) A Sunset (MS.); (20) Tears of a Grateful People (*); (21) To Mary Pridham (MS.).
Of the Epigrams, pp. 443-455, the following were first printed from MS., (1) 'You're careful', &c.; (2) 'Say what you will', &c.; (3) On an Insignificant 'No doleful', &c.; (4) On a Slanderer 'From yonder tomb', &c.; (5) 'Money I've heard', &c.
Of fifty-four Fragments from a Common Place Book eighteen were first printed in Literary Remains, i. 277-281, and the rest were published or collected for the first time: of sixty-six Fragments from Various Sources thirty-three were first published from MSS., and others were collected for the first time.
Much had been accomplished by the Editor of P. and D. W., 1877-1880, but the excellence of the critical apparatus, the style and substance of the critical and explanatory notes, and the amount and quality of fresh material have made and must continue to make the Edition of 1893 the standard edition of Coleridge's Poetical Works. The 'Introductory Memoir' was republished as 'A Narrative of the Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge', Macmillan, 1894.
XLIX
COLERIDGE'S POEMS A Facsimile Reproduction Of The Proofs And MSS. Of Some Of The Poems Edited By The Late JAMES DYKES CAMPBELL Author of "Samuel Taylor Coleridge, A Narrative of the Events of his Life"; and Editor of "The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge." With Preface and Notes By W. Hale White Westminster Archibald Constable and Co. 1899.
Note.—This volume contains a reprint of a volume of proofs endorsed 'Coleridge's MSS. Corrected Copy of a Work'—'Mr. Cottle's', and a facsimile reproduction of three MSS., with the original erasures and alternative readings. The volume of proofs formerly in the possession of J. Dykes Campbell was reproduced by him, and he added the facsimile of the MSS. in the British Museum which he had deciphered and prepared for publication. Four years after his death the sheets were bound up and published with an elucidatory preface by Mr. W. Hale White. A copy of this literary curiosity as it was left by Mr. Campbell, without the Preface, is in the possession of the Editor.
L
Christabel By Samuel Taylor Coleridge Illustrated by a Facsimile of the Manuscript And by Textual and other Notes By Ernest Hartley Coleridge Hon. F.R.S.L. London: Henry Frowde mcmvii.
[8o, pp. ix + 113.
Note.—The Frontispiece is a photogravure (by Emery Walker) of a pastel drawing of S. T. Coleridge aet. 26. The Collotype Facsimile (thirty-eight leaves unpaged) is inserted between pp. 53 and 54. The text, as collated with three MSS., two transcriptions, and the First Edition, &c., is on pp. 61-96; a Bibliographical Index [Appendix IV] on pp. 111-113. This Edition (dedicated to the Poet's grand-daughters Edith and Christabel Rose Coleridge) was issued by Henry Frowde at the expense of the Royal Society of Literature.
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The Poems of Coleridge With An Introduction By Ernest Hartley Coleridge And Illustrations By Gerald Metcalfe John Lane The Bodley Head London, W. John Lane Company New York.
[8o, pp. xxxi + 460 + Index to the Poems [461]-466 + Index to First Lines [469]-477.]
Note.—The Illustrations consist of twenty-three full-page illustrations, together with numerous headings, tailpieces, and vignettes. The Contents include all poems previously published which were not subject to the law of copyright:—'The Walk Before Supper', 'The Reproof and Reply', and 'Sancti Dominici Pallium' were printed for the first time from the original MSS.
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Illustrated by Twenty-Five Poetic and Dramatic Scenes, Designed and Etched By David Scott, Member of the Scottish Academy of Painting. Edinburgh: Alexander Hill, 50, Princes Street; Ackermann & Co. London. m. dccc. xxxvii.
[Folio.
Note.—Text with marginal glosses in Gothic letters, pp. [5]-25 + twenty-four full-page etchings unpaged, preceded by an illustrated title-page. Scenes from Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, By David Scott, S.A. [Etching of the Ancient Mariner on a storm-tost coast ringing a bell, with a motto (from Kubla Khan) "All who saw would cry Beware", Coleridge.] Edinburgh Published By Alexr. Hill, 50 Princes Street 1837. The cloth binding is embellished with a vignette—a lyre encircled by a winged serpent.
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Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner Illustrated by J. Noel Paton, R.S.A. Art Union of London 1863 [W. H. McFarlane Lithogr Edinburgh]
[Oblong Folio.
Note.—The text, pp. [1]-12, is followed by twenty full-page illustrations. The title-page and cloth binding are embellished with a symbolic vignette—a cross-bow, with twisted snake, resting on a cross encircled with stars.
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The Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge Edited, with a Critical Memoir, By William Michael Rossetti. Illustrated By Thomas Seccombe. London: E. Moxon, Son, & Co., Dover Street.
[8o, pp. xxxii + 424.
Note.—In a Note affixed to the 'Prefatory Notice' the Editor states that this edition includes all Coleridge's 'Dramas . . . with the exception of Zapolya. In lieu of this The Fall of Robespierre, which has never as yet been reprinted in England, is introduced.'