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The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 and 2

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A comprehensive annotated edition collects the poet's lyric, narrative, and experimental verse across his career, presenting finished poems, fragments, and drafts drawn from manuscripts and notebooks. The volume contains long narrative pieces, shorter lyrics, and metrical experiments that address nature, imagination, theology, and philosophical reflection. An extended preface and detailed footnotes document variant readings and editorial choices, arrange material approximately chronologically, and reintroduce several pieces published from manuscript for the first time. The editorial apparatus compares multiple editions and holographs, records emendations, and supplies textual and bibliographical notes to guide readers through the poems' composition and revision history.

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—