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 datedOctober, 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.']
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.
The Poetical WorksOf /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.]
[Preface, same as 1829, No. XXI, pp. [v]-x; the titles of Poems not published or collected before 1834 are italicized.]
PagePage of the1834presenteditionHalf-titleJuvenile Poems[1]Genevieve319Sonnet. To the Autumnal Moon35Anthem for the Children of Christ's Hospital45Time, real and imaginary5419Monody on the Death of Chatterton613Songs of the Pixies1340The Raven18169Music2028Devonshire Roads2127Inside the Coach2226Mathematical Problem2321The Nose278Monody on a Tea-Kettle2918Absence, a Farewell Ode3029Sonnet. On Leaving School3129To the Muse329With Fielding's Amelia3337Sonnet. On hearing that his Sister's Death was inevitable3320On Seeing a Youth affectionately welcomed by a Sister3421The same3578Pain3517Life3611Lines on an Autumnal Evening3651The Rose4045The Kiss4163To a Young Ass4374Happiness4430Domestic Peace4871The Sigh4862Epitaph on an Infant4968On Imitation5026Honor5024Progress of Vice5312Lines written at the King's Arms, Ross5457Destruction of the Bastile5510Lines to a beautiful Spring in a Village5758On a Friend who died of a Frenzy Fever induced by calumnious reports5876To a Young Lady, with a Poem on the French Revolution6064SonnetI."My Heart has thanked thee, Bowles"6284——II."As late I lay in Slumber's Shadowy Vale."6380——III."Though roused by that dark vizir Riot rude"6481——IV."When British Freedom for a happier land"6479——V."It was some Spirit, Sheridan!"6587——VI."O what a loud and fearful shriek"6682——VII."As when far off"6682——VIII."Thou gentle look"6747——IX."Pale Roamer through the Night!"6871——X."Sweet Mercy!"6893——XI."Thou Bleedest, my Poor Heart!".6972——XII.To the Author of the Robbers.7072Lines composed while climbing Brockley Coomb7094Lines in the Manner of Spenser7194Imitated from Ossian7338The Complaint of Ninathoma7439Imitated from the Welsh7558To an Infant7591Lines in Answer to a Letter from Bristol7696To a Friend in Answer to a melancholy Letter8090Religious Musings82108The Destiny of Nations, a Vision98131Half-titleSibylline 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]160France, an Ode128243Fears in Solitude132256Fire, Famine, and Slaughter141237II.Love Poems[145]Motto—eleven lines from a Latin poem of Petrarch[145]Love[145]330The Ballad of the Dark Ladie. A Fragment150293Lewti, or the Circassian Love Chaunt152253The Picture, or the Lover's Resolution155369The Night Scene, a Dramatic Fragment162421To an Unfortunate Woman166172To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre167171Lines Composed in a Concert Room168324The Keepsake170345To a Lady, with Falconer's Shipwreck172424To a Young Lady on her recovery from a Fever173252Something Childish, but very Natural174313Home-sick: written in Germany175314Answer to a Child's Question176386A Child's Evening Prayer176401The Visionary Hope177416The Happy Husband178388Recollections of Love179409On revisiting the Sea-Shore181359III.Meditative Poems./ In Blank Verse[183]Motto—eight lines translated from Schiller[183]Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni183376Lines written in the Album at Elbingerode in the Hartz Forest187315On observing a Blossom on the First of February189148The Æolian Harp190100Reflections on having left a place of Retirement393106To the Rev. George Coleridge196173Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath199381A Tombless Epitaph200413This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison201178To a Friend, who had declared his intention of writing no more Poetry205158To William Wordsworth, composed on the night after his recitation of a Poemon the growth of an individual mind206403The Nightingale211264Frost at Midnight216240The Three Graves219267Odes and Miscellaneous Poems235Dejection, an Ode235362Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire241335Ode to Tranquillity244360To a Young Friend, on his proposing to domesticate with the Author246Lines to W. L. while he sang a song to Purcell's Music249286Addressed to a Young Man of Fortune249157Sonnet. To the River Otter25048—— Composed on a journey homeward after hearing of the birth of a son251153—— To a Friend252154The Virgin's Cradle Hymn252417Epitaph on an Infant253417Melancholy, a Fragment25373Tell's Birth Place254309A Christmas Carol256338Human Life258425Moles259430The Visit of the Gods259310Elegy, imitated from Akenside26169Separation262397On Taking Leave of ——263410The Pang more sharp than all263457Kubla Khan266295The Pains of Sleep270389Limbo272429Ne plus ultra273431Apologetic Preface to Fire, Famine, and Slaughter274END OF VOL. IVolume IIThe Ancient Mariner.PartI.1187"II.5189"III.7192"IV.10196"V.13198"VI.18202"VII.23206Christabel, Part I28213Conclusion to Part I39225Part II41227Conclusion to Part II53235Half-titleMiscellaneous Poems[55]MottoἜρωϛ ἀεί, &c. In many ways, &c. (four lines)Alice du Clos; or, the Forked Tongue. A Ballad57469The Knight's Tomb64432Hymn to the Earth65327Written during a temporary blindness, 179967305Mahomet68329Catullian Hendecasyllables69307Duty surviving Self-Love69459Phantom or Fact? a dialogue in Verse70484Phantom71393Work without Hope71447Youth and Age72439A Day Dream74385First Advent of Love76443Names76318Desire77485Love and Friendship opposite77484Not at home77484To a Lady offended by a sportive observation78418Lines suggested by the Last Words of Berengarius79460Sancti Dominici Pallium80448The Devil's Thoughts83319The two round Spaces on the Tombstone87353Lines to a Comic Author89476Constancy to an Ideal Object90455The Suicide's Argument91419The Blossoming of the Solitary Date Tree92395From the German95311Fancy in Nubibus96435The Two Founts96454The Wanderings of Cain99288Allegoric Vision1091091New Thoughts on Old Subjects117462The Garden of Boccaccio127478On a Cataract131308Love's Apparition and Evanishment132488Morning Invitation to a Child133Consolation of a Maniac135A Character137451The Reproof and Reply140441Cholera Cured beforehand142Cologne144477On my joyful departure from the same City144477Written in an Album145To the Author of the Ancient Mariner145Metrical Feet. Lesson for a Boy145401The Homeric Hexameter described and exemplified146307The Ovidian Hexameter described and exemplified146308To the Young Artist, Kayser of Kayserworth147490Job's Luck147On a Volunteer Singer148On an Insignificant148Profuse Kindness148Charity in Thought148486Humility the Mother of Charity149486On an Infant which died before Baptism149312On Berkeley and Florence Coleridge149"Γνῶθι σεαυτόν,&c.150487"Gently I took,"&c.151488My Baptismal Birthday151490Epitaph152491Half-titleRemorse! / A Tragedy. / In Five Acts. /[153]Dramatis Personae.[154]819Remorse.155820Appendix.[237]881Half-title, Motto, &c.Zapolya: / A Christmas Tale / In Two Parts /[241]Advertisement.[242]883Zapolya.[243]884END OF VOL. IIVolume IIIHalf-titleThe Piccolomini; / Or, the First Part of Wallenstein. / A Drama. /Translated from the German of Schiller. /[1]Preface to the First edition[3]598The Piccolomini[5]600Half-titleThe / Death of Wallenstein. / A Tragedy. / In Five Acts: /[193]Preface of The Translator / To the First Edition. /[195]724Dramatis Personae[198]726The Death of Wallenstein[199]726Love, Hope, and Patience in Education331481Erratum[332]
The Poetical and Dramatic Worksof 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 thePoetical 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.
To meet, to know, to love—and then to part,Is the sad tale of many a human heart.
For the 'Couplet', videante, p. 410, 'To Two Sisters', ll. 1, 2. Dr. A. was probably John Anster, LL.D., the translator of Goethe'sFaust.
The Dramatic Works consist of 'The Piccolomini' and 'The Death of Wallenstein'.
The Poetical And Dramatic Worksof 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.
The Poetical Worksof 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 theMorning Post.
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.
The Poemsof 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 inLit. 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.
The Poemsof 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'sMilesisches Märchen, and two stanzas of Cotton'sChlorinda, of which 'Separation' (ante, p. 397) is an adaptation.
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.
The Poemsof 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 thePresent Edition', pp. [v]-xiv) + 378 + 'Notes', pp. [379]-388.
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,May1852.
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 hisannus 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 partof 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 publishedJuvenilia: 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' (videante, p. 46), and the Sonnet, 'No more my visionary Soul shall dwell', attributed by Southey to Favell (videante, p. 68).
The Dramatic Worksof Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by Derwent Coleridge. A New Edition. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. 1852.
[8o, pp. xvi + 427.
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 ofRemorseandZapolya, and of the translation of Schiller'sWallenstein. At the close of the Preface [pp. xii-xiv] the Editor comments on the strictures of a writer in theWestminster Review, Art. 3 July 1850 (videante, p.811), and upholds the merits of the Translation as a whole. The Preface is dated 'St. Mark's College, Chelsea,July, 1852'.
The Complete Worksof 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 (videante, p. 96). Vol. vii was republished with an Index to the preceding six volumes in 1854.
The Poemsof 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]; BiographicalMemoir, 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.
The Poemsof S. T. Coleridge. London: Bell and Daldy. 1862.
[16mo, pp. xiii + 299.
The Poemsof 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.
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.
[First printed in 1863.]
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 theAthenæum, 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 'SarahFricker', 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.
The Poemsof 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 inLyrical Ballads, 1798. The Introductory Memoir (an 'Essay in a Brief Model') has never been reprinted.
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.
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Note.—The text is printed on 14 sheets, unpaged. There are thirteen illustrations and other embellishments.
OsorioA TragedyAs originally written in1797 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.
The Poetical Worksof Samuel Taylor Coleridge Edited with an Introductory Memoir and Illustrations by William B. Scott. London. George Routledge and Sons. [1874.]
[8o, pp. xxviii + 420.
The Poetical Works of Coleridge and KeatsWith 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.
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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.
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 ReadingsVolume 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, andTranslation 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 inLiterary 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 fromThe 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'sHendecasyllabi, &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 theMorning Post, and from earlier editions, are printed as footnotes to the text. In Vol. III. the Editor supplies a collation of the text ofRemorseas published in 1852 with that ofOsorio[London: John Pearson, 1873] and with that of the First and Second Editions ofRemorsepublished in 1813.
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 theFall of Robespierre, andChristobell.A Gothic Taleas published in theEuropean Magazine, April, 1815.
The Poetical Worksof 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.]
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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 thePoetical 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 onP. and D. W., 1877-1880.
The Poetical Worksof Samuel Taylor Coleridge Edited with a Biographical Introduction by James Dykes CampbellLondonMacmillan and Co. And New York 1893All 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 theHymn, 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 [byW. 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 inLiterary 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 ofP. 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'sPoetical Works. The 'Introductory Memoir' was republished as 'A Narrative of the Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge', Macmillan, 1894.
COLERIDGE'S POEMSA Facsimile Reproduction Of The Proofs And MSS. Of SomeOf The Poems Edited By The LateJAMES DYKES CAMPBELLAuthor 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.