TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
Transcriber has copied the Index of First Lines from the end of Vol. II and appended it to this volume.
Page xxviii 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.
Changes have been made to the text to reflect the corrections mentioned on the Errata page. The Errata page is included for completeness.
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}].
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.