Oxford: Horace Hart, Printer to the University
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
Pages xxviii and 494 are blank in the original.
Ellipses in the text are represented as in the original. Ellipses in poetry are indicated by a row of asterisks.
Changes have been made to the text to reflect the corrections mentioned in the Errata listings on page xxvi of Vol. I. and on page viii of Vol. II. The Errata listings are included for completeness.
The quotation marks in THE RIME OF THE ANCYENT MARINERE are exactly as printed in the original.
Inconsistencies in spelling, hyphenation, and accents have been left as in the original.
The following corrections have been made to the text:
page xiii: V. Koskiusko. [MS. Letter, Dec. 17, 1794.] {original is missing period and has closing parenthesis instead of bracket}
page xvii: Youth and Age. [MS. S. T. C.:{original is missing period after C} MSS. (1, 2) Notebook.]
page 51: 28 gleam] gleams 1796, 1797, 1803{original has 11803}, 1893.
page 207: When the ivy-tod{original has ivv-tod} is heavy
page 218: [Lines 82, 83, . . . palfrey white.]{ending bracket is missing in original}
page 237: 20 Both] Famine M.{period missing in original} P.
page 256: Title] Fears &c. Written, April 1798, during the Alarms of an Invasion MS.{original has extraneous comma} W.
page 328: Deep was the shudder, O Earth!{exclamation point missing in original}
page 368: Dear Lady!{exclamation point missing in original} friend devoutest
page 376: (1) MS. A, sent to Sir George Beaumont, Oct. 1803 (see Coleorton Letters){ending parenthesis is missing in original}, 1886, i. 26;
page 442: "{quotation mark missing in original}Thus, long accustom'd
page 445: 'I guess we shall have rain to-day!'{quotation mark missing in original}
Footnote [133:1] Balda-Zhiok, i. e.{period missing in original} mons altitudinis
Footnote [256:1] alarm respecting the threatened invasion.{original has extraneous quotation mark}
Footnote [293:1] Coleridge synchronizes the Dark Ladié (a poem which he was 'preparing' with the Christabel){ending parenthesis is missing in original}].
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.