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The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 2 (of 2)

Volume 1 — TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:

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Page 494 is blank in the original.

Ellipses in the text are represented as in the original. Ellipses in poetry are indicated by a row of asterisks.

The quotation marks in THE RIME OF THE ANCYENT MARINERE are exactly as printed in the original.

Changes have been made to the text to reflect the corrections mentioned in the Errata on page viii.

Inconsistencies in spelling, hyphenation, and accents have been left as in the original.

The following corrections have been made to the text:

page 564: Between 19 and 31] And marking that the moonlight came from thence,{original has period}

page 607 (line 137): The soldier's boldness constitutes{original has constitues} his freedom.

page 718: [56] Octavio (coldly). 1800, 1828, 1829.{Note removed as a duplicate of [55].}

page 731: [Before 72] Duchess (anxiously). 1800,{comma is missing in original} 1828

page 741: [39] Wallenstein (with eager expectation).{period is missing in original} Well?

page 754: [117{original has 17}] thou

page 765: Butler and Gordon.{period is missing in original}

page 771: [After 9] [Wallenstein shudders and turns pale{original has extraneous closing parenthesis}.

page 850 (line 91): What if{original has opening parenthesis followed by the word if} (his stedfast eye still beaming pity

page 868: removed superscripted 1 at the end of line 1 as there is no footnote

page 879: [255] and suddenly stabs Ordonio.{period is missing in original}

page 879: [255] [Note. In his.... [For MS. version of this variant see note on p. 597.]]{original is missing second closing bracket}

page 906 (line 181): added the word "Is" at the beginning of the line—verified in The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published by Harper Brothers, New York, 1854

page 929: [112] Laska (recovering himself).{period is missing in original}

page 934 (line 292): devotion is akin to love,{original has period after the comma}

page 982: First collected P. and D. W.{period is missing in original}

page 1146: {original has unmatched opening bracket}For lines 1-63 vide ante, No. III

page 1158: Apud Athenæum.{original has a comma}

Footnote [598:1] (an undramatic superstition ... pleasing associations, as the Sun and Moon) {original has duplicate word Astrology before and after the material in parentheses}

To maintain consistency, initials referring to manuscripts are spaced throughout the text.

When there is more than one poem on a page, the linenotes in the original repeat the title. This title has been removed. When there is more than one scene on a page, the linenotes in the original repeat the scene number. This number has been removed.

In "The Piccolomini," some of the drama is written in prose. The lines are numbered. Where words are hyphenated in the original, the parts have been rejoined and the first part of the word moved down to the beginning of the following line. In the list below, the slash indicates where the hyphen occurs in the original.

Act I, Scene VI:

lines 5-6 orders/--no

lines 7-8 counter/manded

Act II, Scene VIII:

lines 23-24 determina/tion

Act II, Scene XII:

lines 5-6 splen/did

lines 15-16 Tie/fenbach

lines 31-32 tale-/bearers

lines 34-35 gold.--/And

lines 58-59 Rudolph--/a [moved up]

lines 99-100 Fron/tignac!--Snapped

lines 111-112 con/fidentially

Act II, Scene XIII:

lines 11-12 me--/talk

lines 23-24 pre/cedence

lines 25-26 permission--/Good

lines 44-45 com/plaint

lines 46-47 Chaly/beate

lines 59-60 Mara/das

lines 65-66 com/pliment!--For

lines 66-67 re/maining

lines 68-69 Lieutenant-/General

Act II, Scene XIV:

lines 22-23 brother!--/Hast

lines 72-73 over-scrupu/lously

lines 76-77 army-/purveyancer

In the Preface to "The Death of Wallenstein," the lines are numbered. Where words are hyphenated in the original, the parts have been rejoined and the first part of the word moved down to the beginning of the following line. In the list below, the slash indicates where the hyphen occurs in the original.

lines 1-2 Wallen/stein

lines 10-11 trans/lated

lines 12-13 com/parative

lines 28-29 His/tory

lines 47-48 Piccolo/mini [moved up]

lines 61-62 Trans/lator

lines 68-69 com/pensation

In Act I, Scene I of "The Triumph of Loyalty," the lines are numbered. Where words are hyphenated in the original, the parts have been rejoined and the first part of the word moved down to the beginning of the following line. In the list below, the slash indicates where the hyphen occurs in the original.

lines 5-6 Cas/tilian

lines 60-61 judge/ment--she

In Appendix I, part of the poem "Youth and Age" has numbered lines. Where words are hyphenated in the original, the parts have been rejoined and the first part of the word moved down to the beginning of the following line. In the list below, the slash indicates where the hyphen occurs in the original.

lines 13-14 spark/ling

lines 16-17 side/--out

In Appendix II, the "Allegoric Vision" has numbered lines. Where words are hyphenated in the original, the parts have been rejoined and the first part of the word moved down to the beginning of the following line. In the list below, the slash indicates where the hyphen occurs in the original.

lines 26-27 disap/pointments

lines 59-60 im/mediately

lines 74-75 pin/ing

lines 77-78 move/ments

lines 91-91 sprink/lings

lines 106-107 extre/mity

lines 123-124 some/thing

lines 127-128 uncer/tainty

lines 148-149 over/taken [moved up]

lines 161-162 demean/our [moved up]

lines 170-171 dim-/eyed [moved up]

lines 181-182 mys/teries

In Appendix III, the "Apologetic Preface to 'Fire, Famine, and Slaughter'" has numbered lines. Where words are hyphenated in the original, the parts have been rejoined and the first part of the word moved down to the beginning of the following line. In the list below, the slash indicates where the hyphen occurs in the original.

lines 2-3 cul/tivated

lines 25-26 Anti-/Gallican

lines 34-35 com/pensated

lines 38-39 illus/trious

lines 147-148 appari/tions

lines 157-158 imagina/tion [moved up]

lines 170-171 con/cluded

lines 174-175 epigram/matic [moved up]

lines 193-194 occa/sion

lines 207-208 re/published

lines 251-252 pass/age [moved up]

lines 267-268 com/pared

lines 278-279 tran/scendant

lines 285-286 wil/fully

lines 301-302 disposi/tions

lines 302-303 punish/ment

lines 308-309 hypotheti/cally

lines 315-316 calum/niators

lines 319-320 anti-/prelatist [moved up]

lines 339-340 per/secution

lines 353-354 con/tented

lines 359-360 tempta/tion

lines 361-362 tolera/tion

lines 370-371 sup/port

lines 378-379 Church-anti/quity [moved up]

lines 381-382 church-/communion [moved up]

lines 394-395 ex/pressed

lines 399-400 inter/misceant

lines 408-409 alle/gorical [moved up]

lines 437-438 dun/geoning

lines 439-440 con/cerning [moved up]

lines 454-455 charac/ters

lines 464-465 truth,—/when

lines 467-468 main/taining

lines 472-473 primi/tive

lines 478-479 reli/gious

In the individual entries in the Bibliography, words in bold are in a Gothic font in the original.

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