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Christabel By Samuel Taylor Coleridge Illustrated by a Facsimile of the Manuscript And by Textual and other Notes By Ernest Hartley Coleridge Hon. F.R.S.L. London: Henry Frowde mcmvii.
[8o, pp. ix + 113.
Note.—The Frontispiece is a photogravure (by Emery Walker) of a pastel drawing of S. T. Coleridge aet. 26. The Collotype Facsimile (thirty-eight leaves unpaged) is inserted between pp. 53 and 54. The text, as collated with three MSS., two transcriptions, and the First Edition, &c., is on pp. 61-96; a Bibliographical Index [Appendix IV] on pp. 111-113. This Edition (dedicated to the Poet's grand-daughters Edith and Christabel Rose Coleridge) was issued by Henry Frowde at the expense of the Royal Society of Literature.
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The Poems of Coleridge With An Introduction By Ernest Hartley Coleridge And Illustrations By Gerald Metcalfe John Lane The Bodley Head London, W. John Lane Company New York.
[8o, pp. xxxi + 460 + Index to the Poems [461]-466 + Index to First Lines [469]-477.]
Note.—The Illustrations consist of twenty-three full-page illustrations, together with numerous headings, tailpieces, and vignettes. The Contents include all poems previously published which were not subject to the law of copyright:—'The Walk Before Supper', 'The Reproof and Reply', and 'Sancti Dominici Pallium' were printed for the first time from the original MSS.
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Illustrated by Twenty-Five Poetic and Dramatic Scenes, Designed and Etched By David Scott, Member of the Scottish Academy of Painting. Edinburgh: Alexander Hill, 50, Princes Street; Ackermann & Co. London. m. dccc. xxxvii.
[Folio.
Note.—Text with marginal glosses in Gothic letters, pp. [5]-25 + twenty-four full-page etchings unpaged, preceded by an illustrated title-page. Scenes from Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, By David Scott, S.A. [Etching of the Ancient Mariner on a storm-tost coast ringing a bell, with a motto (from Kubla Khan) "All who saw would cry Beware", Coleridge.] Edinburgh Published By Alexr. Hill, 50 Princes Street 1837. The cloth binding is embellished with a vignette—a lyre encircled by a winged serpent.
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Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner Illustrated by J. Noel Paton, R.S.A. Art Union of London 1863 [W. H. McFarlane Lithogr Edinburgh]
[Oblong Folio.
Note.—The text, pp. [1]-12, is followed by twenty full-page illustrations. The title-page and cloth binding are embellished with a symbolic vignette—a cross-bow, with twisted snake, resting on a cross encircled with stars.
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The Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge Edited, with a Critical Memoir, By William Michael Rossetti. Illustrated By Thomas Seccombe. London: E. Moxon, Son, & Co., Dover Street.
[8o, pp. xxxii + 424.
Note.—In a Note affixed to the 'Prefatory Notice' the Editor states that this edition includes all Coleridge's 'Dramas . . . with the exception of Zapolya. In lieu of this The Fall of Robespierre, which has never as yet been reprinted in England, is introduced.'
FOOTNOTES:
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nos otia vitae
Solamur cantu, ventosaque gaudia famae
Quaerimus.
[1135:2] The following Advertisement was issued on a separate sheet:—
London, April 16. / This day was Published. / Printed on Wove Paper, and Hot-Pressed, / Price 5s. in Boards,—Fools-cap 8 vo. / Poems / on Various Subjects, by / S. T. Coleridge, / Late of Jesus College, Cambridge. / London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinsons, Pater-Noster Row, and / J. Cottle, Bookseller, Bristol; and to be had of the / Publishers of the Watchman / 1796. /
[1136:1] From 'An Evening Address to a Nightingale', by Cuthbert Shaw—Anderson's British Poets, xi. 564.
Effusion on Effusion, pour away?'
[1140:1] The ancient little Wits wrote many poems in the shape of Eggs, Altars, and Axes. (MS. Note by S. T. C.)
[1140:2] The title of the volume is 'Sonnets and Odes, by Henry Francis Cary. Author of an Irregular Ode to General Elliot. London 1787.'
Lines 6-9 of the Sonnet read thus:—
And warbled sweet, thy Brooks and streams among,
Lonely Valclusa! and that heir of Fame
Our English Milton—
Line 14 reads:—
The Poems were the first publication of 'Dante' Cary, then a boy of fifteen, whom Coleridge first met at Muddiford in October, 1816, and whose translation of the Divina Commedia he helped to make famous.
[1141:1] The three Sonnets of Bowles are not in any Edition since the last quarto pamphlet of his Sonnets. (MS. Note by S. T. C.)
[1144:1] Ossian.
[1146:1] Compare The Pursuits of Literature, Dialogue 1, lines 50, 55, 56.
And was his own exceeding great reward.
The first Dialogue was published in May 1794. The lines on Gray may have suggested Coleridge's quotation from Genesis, chap. xv, ver. 1, which is supplied in a footnote to line 56.
[1150:1] The 'Eolian Harp', with the title 'Effusion xxxv. Composed August 20, 1795, at Clevedon, Somersetshire', was first published in 1796, and included as 'Composed at Clevedon' in 1797 and 1803. It is possible that it may have been originally printed in a newspaper.
[1150:2] The fourth and last edition of the Lyrical Ballads was issued in 1805.
[1151:1] The List numbers thirty, and of these not more than twenty are strictly speaking Errata. Of the remainder the greater number are textual corrections, emendations, and afterthoughts.
[1151:2] The allusion is to the prolonged and embittered controversy between Coleridge and his friends at Bristol, who had printed his works and advanced him various sums of money on the security of the sheets as printed and the future sale of the works when published. They were angry with him for postponing completion of these works, and keeping them out of their money, and he was naturally and reasonably indignant at the excessive sum charged for paper and printing. The fact was that they had done and intended to do him a kindness, but that in so far as it was a business transaction he suffered at their hands.
[1151:3] The title of these Iambic lines is 'Relictis Aliis Studiis Philosophiam Epicuream amplectitur'.
[1151:4] Ben Jonson, vide ante, p. 1118.
[1151:5] Vide ante, pp. 419, 420.
[1169:1] See Wordsworth's P. W. 1896, in. 21: The Small Celandine, ll. 21, 22.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX
No. I
POEMS FIRST PUBLISHED IN NEWSPAPERS
OR PERIODICALS
No. II
EPIGRAMS AND JEUX D'ESPRIT FIRST PUBLISHED IN
NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS
No. III
POEMS INCLUDED IN ANTHOLOGIES AND OTHER WORKS
| PAGE | ||
| 1. | Poems, supposed to have been written. . . By Thomas Rowley,. . .1794. | |
| Monody on the Death of Chatterton | xxv | |
| 2. | Poems by Francis Wrangham, M.A., 1795. | |
| Translation of Hendecasyllabi ad Bruntonam, &c. | 79 | |
| To Miss Brunton with the Preceding Translation. | ||
| 3. | Poems on the Death of Priscilla Farmer. By her grandson Charles Lloyd, 1796. | |
| Sonnet. 'The Piteous sobs', &c. | ||
| 4. | Lyrical Ballads, 1798. | |
| The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere | 1 | |
| The Foster Mother's Tale | 53 | |
| The Nightingale | 63 | |
| 5. | Lyrical Ballads (in two volumes), 1800. | |
| Vol. I. Love [with the four poems published in 1798] | 138 | |
| 6. | Annual Anthology, 1800. | |
| *Lewti, or The Circassian Love-Chant | 23 | |
| *To a Young Lady, on her first Appearance after a Dangerous Illness. | 32 | |
| *Recantation, Illustrated in the Story of the Mad Ox | 59 | |
| *Lines Written in the Album at Elbingerode, in the Hartz Forest | 74 | |
| *A Christmas Carol | 79 | |
| To a Friend, who had declared his intention of writing no more Poetry | 103 | |
| This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison. A Poem, addressed to Charles Lamb, of the India House, London | 140 | |
| To W. L. Esq. while he sung a Song to Purcell's Music. | 156 | |
| *The British Stripling's War-Song | 173 | |
| Something childish, but very natural. Written in Germany | 192 | |
| Home-Sick. Written in Germany | 193 | |
| *Ode to Georgiana, Dutchess of Devonshire | 212 | |
| *Fire, Famine, and Slaughter. A War Eclogue | 231 | |
| *The Raven | 240 | |
| *To an unfortunate Woman. 'Sufferer, that with sullen brow' | 291 | |
[Note. Poems marked with an asterisk were reprinted from the Morning Post.] |
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| 7. | Memoirs of the late Mrs. Robinson, &c. Four volumes, 1801. | |
| A Stranger Minstrel | Vol. iv, p. 141 | |
| 8. | Melmoth's Beauties of British Poets, 1801. | |
| To a Young Ass | 21 | |
| To a Spring in a beautiful Village | 119 | |
| The Sigh | 167 | |
| The Kiss | 201 | |
| 9. | The Wild Wreath. Edited by M. E. Robinson, 1804. | |
| The Mad Monk | 142 | |
| 10. | The Poetical Register and Repository of the Fine Arts. | |
| Vol. II. For 1802 (1803). | ||
| *Chamouny. The Hour before Sunrise. A Hymn | 308 | |
| *Inscription on a Jutting Stone over a Spring | 338 | |
| *The Picture; or, The Lover's Resolution | 354 | |
| Vol. III. For 1803 (1805). | ||
| From the German of Leasing. 'I ask'd my fair', &c. [Signed 'Harley Philadelphia'.] | 274 | |
| Sonnets, Attempted in the Manner of 'Contemporary Writers' | 346 | |
| Vol. IV. For 1804 (1805). | ||
| The Exchange. | ||
| Vol. VI. For 1806, 1807 (1811). | ||
| On a Late Connubial Rupture in High Life | 365 | |
| Vol. VII. For 1808, 1809 (1812). | ||
| Fears in Solitude. By S. T. Coleridge, Esq. | 227 | |
| France, An Ode. By S. T. Coleridge, Esq. | 332 | |
| Frost at Midnight. By S. T. Coleridge Esq. | 530 | |
[Note. Sonnets Attempted, &c., in Vol. III, and On a Late, &c., in Vol. VI, were reprinted from the Monthly Magazine: the three poems in Vol. VII were reprinted from the quarto pamphlet of 1798, and were again set up as a small octavo pamphlet by Law & Gilbert, the printers of the Poetical Register. Vide Bibliography, No. X.] |
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| 11. | Selection of Poems for Young Persons, by J. Cottle. Third edition, n. d. | |
| Epitaph on an Infant | 129 | |
| Sonnet to the River Otter | 155 | |
| Domestic Peace | 157 | |
| 12. | English Minstrelsy; being a Selection of Fugitive Poetry from the Best English Authors. Two volumes, 1810. | |
| Vol. II. | ||
| Fragment. S. T. Coleridge ['Introduction to the Tale of the dark Ladie' as published in the Morning Post] | 131 | |
| 13. | Poetical Class-Book. Edited by W. F. Mylius, 1810. | |
| This Lime Tree Bower my Prison. | ||
| 14. | Nugæ Canoræ. Poems by Charles Lloyd, 1819. | |
| Sonnet. 'The piteous sobs ', &c. | 145 | |
| 15. | The British Minstrel. Glasgow, 1821. | |
| The Three Graves | ||
| 16. | Castle Dangerous. By Sir W. Scott, 1832. Notes by J. G. Lockhart. Galignani, 1834. | |
| The Knight's Tomb. 'Where is the grave', &c. | 10 | |
| 17. | A History of . . . Christ's Hospital. By the Rev. W. Trollope, 1834. | |
| Julia | 192 | |
| 18. | Letters, Conversations, &c., of S. T. Coleridge. In two volumes, 1836. | |
| Vol. I. | ||
| Farewell to Love | 143 | |
| To Nature. | 144 | |
| Sonnet. To Lord Stanhope | 217 | |
| Vol II. | ||
| 'What boots to tell how o'er his grave' | 75 | |
| 19. | Early Recollections, &c. By Joseph Cottle, 1837. | |
| Vol. I. | ||
| Monody on . . . Chatterton, ll. 137-54 | 32 | |
| To W. J. H. While playing on his flute | 33 | |
| The Fox and Statesman, &c. | 172 | |
| Sonnet. To Lord Stanhope | 203 | |
| Written After a Walk Before Supper | 209 | |
| To an unfortunate Young Woman, Whom I had known in the days of her Innocence. 'Maiden! that with sullen brow'. | 213 | |
| Allegorical Lines on the same subject. 'Myrtle Leaf, that ill besped' | 214 | |
| On an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre | 216 | |
| On an Unfortunate, &c. | 217 | |
| Examples. 'O what a life', &c. | 226 | |
| Another Specimen, describing Hexameters, &c. | 226 | |
| Another Specimen. 'In the Hexameter', &c. | 227 | |
| The English Duodecasyllable. 'Hear my beloved', &c. | 227 | |
| Foster-Mother's Tale | 235 | |
| To a Friend, [Charles Lloyd (sic)] who had declared his intention, &c., ll. 17-35 | 245 | |
| Lines Addressed to Joseph Cottle | 283 | |
| 'As oft mine eye', &c. [The Silver Thimble] | 236 | |
| Sonnets, Attempted in the Manner of Contemporary Writers | 290 | |
| To the Author of the Ancient Mariner | 293 | |
| Vol. II. | ||
| Five 'Epigrams, translated . . . from the German' | 65-6 | |
| My Love. 'I ask'd my love', &c. | 67 | |
| Joan of Arc, Book the Second. 4o, 1796 (including the lines claimed by S. T. C.) | 241-52 | |
| 20. | The Book of Gems. Edited by S. C. Hall, 1838. | |
| The Garden of Boccaccio | 51 | |
| Love | 52 | |
| The Nightingale | 53 | |
| Lines written in the Album at Elbingerode, &c. | 58 | |
| Recollections of Love | 59 | |
| 21. | Memoirs of William Wordsworth. In two volumes, 1851. | |
| Vol. I. | ||
| English Hexameters. 'William, my teacher', &c. | 139 | |
| 22. | An Old Man's Diary. By J. Payne Collier, 1871, 2. | |
| My Godmother's Beard | Part I, pp. 34, 35. | |
| Epigram. 'A very old proverb commands', &c. | ||
| Epitaph on Sir James Mackintosh. [The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone] | Part I, pp. 61, 62. | |
| A Character. 'A Bird who for his other sins' (15 lines) | Part IV, p. 57. | |
| 23. | Unpublished letters from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to the Rev. John Prior Estlin: Communicated to the Philobiblon Society. | |
| To An Unfortunate Princess. [On a Late Connubial, &c.] | 20 | |
| Lines Addressed to J. Horne Tooke. 'Britons! when last', &c. | 22 | |
| 24. | Letters from the Lake Poets. . . To Daniel Stuart, 1889. | |
| Alcaeus to Sappho | 16 | |
| 25. | Memorials of Coleorton. Edited by W. Knight. Two vols., 1887. | |
| Vol. I. | ||
| Mont Blanc, The Summit of the Vale of Chamouny, An Hour before Sunrise—A Hymn. [As sent to Sir George Beaumont.] | 26 | |
| To William Wordsworth. Composed for the greater part on the same night after the finishing of his recitation of the Poem in thirteen Books, on the Growth of his own Mind. [As sent to Sir G. Beaumont, Jan. 1807.] | ||
| 26. | Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics. Edited by F. T. Palgrave 1896. | |
| Love | 199 | |
| Kubla Khan | 308 | |
| Youth and Age | 323 | |