been correctly explained. An examination of the printers' accounts enables me to say that Coleridge originally projected a work in two volumes, the first of which was to contain his Biographia Literaria,' and the second his collected Poems.' While the two were being printed concurrently, the Biographia' outgrew the capacity of a single volume, and the 'Poems' were thenceforward called in the accounts 'Vol. III.' When the whole of Vols. I. and III. and half of Vol. II. had been printed, the author and the printers quarrelled. Vol. II. was completed by another printer; and the two works were published separately by Rest Fenner in 1817-as 'Biographia Literaria' in two volumes; and 'Sibylline Leaves' in one. The mention of this muddle alluded to in the Preface to the latter occurs at page 182 of the second volume of the B. Lit. The statement opens, appropriately, with a bull. 'For more than eighteen months have the volume of Poems, entitled SIBYLLINE LEAVES, and the present volume up to this page been printed, and ready for publication.' Coleridge should have written' 'up to page 128.-ED. XI ZAPOLYA: a Christmas Tale, in Two Parts-The Prelude, entitled 'The Usurper's Fortune'; and The Sequel, entitled 'The Usurper's Fate.' By S. T. Coleridge, Esq. LONDON: Printed for Rest Fenner, Paternoster - Row. 1817. Octavo, 4 unpaged preliminary leaves, and 128 pages of text. ADVERTISEMENT [This will be found prefixed to the piece.] There was no second edition' of the original issue. When Coleridge reprinted Zapolya among his collected poems in 1828, he made a few unimportant changes in the text, and again, in 1829, a few more. The motto apud Athenæum' was first added in 1828. XII THE POETICAL WORKS OF S. T. COLERIDGE, including the Dramas of Wallenstein, Remorse, and Zapolya. In three Volumes. London: William Pickering. MDCCCXXVIII. Octavo, Vol. I. pp. x., 253; II. 370; III. 428. PREFACE [The Preface is (all but) a verbatim reprint of that of 1803. It is called ' Preface to the first and second Editions,'-which is true in the sense explained in 'VII.' CONTENTS [Almost the same as those of the 1829 edition detailed in XIII.' —The differences are as follows: Poems in 1828, and not in 1829. Song: Tho' veiled in spires of myrtle wreath.' *Not in 1834, nor in 1877-1880. It will be found in this volume, under the title, Love, A Sword, at p. 195. The Alienated Mistress: A Madrigal. From an unfinished Melodrama. It will be found in the present volume, under its later title (Amulet, 1833) of Love's Burial-place, at p. 209. Both these poems were placed in the division- Prose in Rhyme,' etc. In 1829, and not in 1828. Allegoric Vision. PREFACE [THE Preface is the same as that of 1803 and 1828, with addition of the following passage (quoted as a foot-note to the sentence I have pruned the double-epithets with no sparing hand; and used my best efforts to tame the swell and glitter both of thought and diction. ')—'Without any feeling of anger, I may yet be allowed to express some degree of surprize, that after having run the critical gauntlet for a certain class of faults, which I had, viz. a too ornate, and elaborately poetic diction, and nothing having come before the judgementseat of the Reviewers during the long interval, I should for at least seventeen years, quarter after quarter, have been placed by them in the foremost rank of the proscribed, and made to abide the brunt of abuse and ridicule for faults directly opposite, viz. bald and prosaic language, and an affected simplicity both of matter and mannerfaults which assuredly did not enter into the character of my compositions.-LITERPublished 1817.' ARY LIFE, i. 51. text of the Biographia Literaria has been considerably modified.)] CONTENTS (The X. ['Sweet Mercy!'] XII. To the Author of 'The Lines composed while climbing the left ascent of Brockley Coomb, Somersetshire, May 1795 Lines in the manner of Spenser The Complaint of Ninathóma Imitated from the Welsh Lines written at Shurton Bars, near Bridgewater, September 1795, in answer to a letter from Bristol 34 34 JUVENILE POEMS Page in present Edition. To an Infant I 3 187 47 43 Sonnet to the Autumnal Moon Time, Real and Imaginary. An Alle Monody on the Death of Chatterton Songs of the Pixies The Raven. A Christmas Tale, told by a school-boy to his little brothers and sisters Absence. A Farewell Ode on quit ting School for Jesus College, Cambridge Lines on an Autumnal Evening The Rose The Kiss 15 24 23 30 THE POETICAL WORKS OF S. T. COLERIDGE. [The Publisher's Aldine anchor and dolphin.] Vol. I. [II. III.] LONDON: William Pickering. 1834. 8vo. Vol. I. pp. xiv.; 288. Vol. II. pp. vi.; 338. Vol. III. pp. 331. [Frequently reprinted.] PREFACE [Same as in 1829.] CONTENTS [All the pieces contained in the edition of 1829, with the addition of sixty-six pieces not previously collected. Of these sixty-six, forty-eight then appeared in print for the first time. There were also included (in the second volume) two pieces, not by Coleridge, introduced by the following note: Anxious to associate the name of a most dear and honored friend with my own, I solicited and obtained the permission of Professor J. H. GREEN to permit the insertion of the two following poems, by him composed. S. T. COLERIDGE.' These two poems-Morning invitation to a child, and Consolations of a Maniac - continued to be included among Coleridge's poems in Moxon's editions down (at least) to that re-edited by the Rev. Derwent Coleridge in 1870. There was also included, but by mistake, a fragment of six lines with the heading The Same' [as 'On seeing a youth affectionately welcomed by a sister'] These lines formed part of the poem To a Friend [Charles Lamb] together with an unfinished Poem. In the Preface to the one-volume edition of Coleridge's poems edited by Derwent and Sara Coleridge' (the poet's surviving son and daughter) in 1852, the edition of 1834 is thus described :-'That of 1834 was arranged mainly, if not tirely, at the discretion of his earliest Editor, H. N. Coleridge.'] XV en THE POEMS OF S. T. COLERIDGE. London: William Pickering. 1848. Octavo, pp. xvi.; 372. Issued without editor's name or any introduction save the old composite Preface,' as printed in 1829. The dramas are excluded. The Contents' include a few early and late pieces, omitted in 1834, and exclude most of the school-boy verses first printed in 1834. The German originals of several of Coleridge's translations and imitations were first given, or brought together, as Notes' at the end of this volume. It was doubtless edited by the poet's daughter. ་ XVI THE POEMS OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. Edited by Derwent and Sara Coleridge. A new Edition. London Edward Moxon, Dover Street. 1852. [With Portrait of Coleridge at the age of twenty-six. In some later issues of the edition the Allston portrait of 1814 was substituted.] Octavo, pp. xxxvii.; 388. [Frequently reprinted.] ADVERTISEMENT THIS volume was prepared for the press by my lamented sister, Mrs. H. N. Cole ridge, and will have an additional interest ST. MARK'S COLLEGE, Chelsea, PREFACE TO THE PRESENT As a chronological arrangement of Poetry in completed collections is now beginning to find general favour, pains have been taken to follow this method in the present Edition of S. T. Coleridge's Poetical and Dramatic Works, as far as circumstances permittedthat is to say, as far as the date of composition of each poem was ascertainable, and as far as the plan could be carried out without effacing the classes into which the Author had himself distributed his most important poetical publication, the 'Sibylline Leaves, namely, POEMS OCCASIONED BY POLITICAL EVENTS, OR FEELINGS CONNECTED WITH THEM; LOVE POEMS; MEDITATIVE POEMS IN BLANK VERSE; ODES AND MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. On account of these impediments, together with the fact, that many a poem, such as it appears in its ultimate form, is the growth of different periods, the agreement with chronology in this Edition is approximative rather than perfect: yet in the majority of instances the date of cach piece has been made out, and its place fixed accordingly. In another point of view also, the Poems have been distributed with relation to time: they are thrown into three broad groups, representing, first the Youth, secondly, the Early Manhood and Middle Life,thirdly, the Declining Age of the Poet; and it will be readily perceived that each |