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Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 2 / being The Biographical Supplement of Coleridge's Biographia Literaria

Chapter 119: INDEX
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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A volume of correspondence and biographical commentary collects letters and editorial chapters that record the author’s travels, interim public appointments, and impressions from journeys abroad. The correspondence details friendships, literary disagreements, lecture plans, editorial efforts, and personal anxieties, revealing changing alliances and intellectual preoccupations. Editorial material links the letters with narrative chapters, offers contextual notes and corrections, and assembles an appendix and index to guide the reader through the assembled documents.

“Hence then, each vain complaint, away,
Each captious doubt, and cautious fear!
Nor blast the new-born year,
That anxious waits the Spring’s slow-shooting ray:
Nor deem that Albion’s honours cease to bloom.
With candid glance, th’ impartial Muse,
Invoked on this auspicious morn,
The present scans, the distant scene pursues,
And breaks Opinion’s speculative gloom:
Interpreter of ages yet unborn,
Full right she spells the characters of Fate,
That Albion still shall keep her wonted state!
Still in eternal glory shine,
Of Victory the sea-beat shrine;
The source of every splendid art,
Of old, of future worlds the universal mart.”

Vol. II, p. 294. The Objective and the Subjective in Art.—Goethe and Schiller always insisted upon the Objective as the highest form of art; many passages occur in their letters regarding the distinction. Schiller says, 28th November 1796: “As regards Wallenstein, it is at present progressing very slowly, as I am chiefly occupied with the raw material, which is not yet quite collected; but I still feel equal to it, and I have obtained many a clear and definite idea in regard to its form. What I wish and ought to do, and what I have to do, has now become pretty clear to me; it now merely depends upon accomplishing what I wish and what I ought to do by using what I have in hand before me. As regards the spirit in which I am working, you will probably be satisfied with what I have done. I shall have no difficulty in keeping my subject outside of myself, and in only giving the object.”—Bohn Library Translation, Correspondence between Goethe and Schiller, i, 263–4.

Vol. II, p. 297.—Poems of Coleridge differing in their Texts in the Editions of 1829 and 1834:

  • The Raven (two lines).
  • Time Real and Imaginary (one word).
  • Songs of the Pixies.
  • Lines on an Autumnal Evening (one word).
  • Lines written at the King’s Arms, Ross.
  • Monody on the Death of Chatterton (11 lines).
  • Sonnet on Kosciusko (one line).
  • Sonnet, “Pale roamer through the night.”
  • Brockley Coombe.
  • Religious Musings (a few words).
  • Destiny of Nations (differs slightly).
  • Christabel (slightly).
  • Ode to the Departing Year (sixth line).
  • The Devil’s Thoughts.
  • To the Rev. George Coleridge (one word).
  • The Nightingale (one word).
  • Lines written at Elbingerode (one word).
  • A Tombless Epitaph (one word).
  • To a Young Friend on his proposing to domesticate with the author (one word).
  • Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire.
  • Dejection, an Ode.
  • Lines on Berengarius.
  • France, an Ode.

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