The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Volume II Part 233

Mottoes:-- ???? ?e? ???????? ?ta????.

In many ways does the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal; But in far more th' estranged heart lets know, The absence of the love, which yet it fain would shew.

Duty surviving Self-love [77]

Song. ['Tho' veiled in spires,' &c.] 78 Phantom or Fact? A Dialogue in Verse 79 Work without Hope 81 Youth and Age 82 A Day-dream. ['My eyes make pictures,' &c.] 84 To a Lady, offended by a sportive observation 86 Reason for Love's Blindness 86 Lines suggested by the Last Words of Berengarius 87 The Devil's Thoughts 89 The Alienated Mistress 93 Constancy to an Ideal Object 94 The Suicide's Argument 96 The Blossoming of the Solitary Date-tree 97 Fancy in Nubibus 102 The Two Founts 103 Prefatory Note to the Wanderings of Cain 105 The Wanderings of Cain 109

Half-t.i.tle

Remorse. / A Tragedy. / In Five Acts. / [119]

Remorse. A TRAGEDY 121 Appendix [232]

Half-t.i.tle

Zapolya: / A Christmas Tale. / In Two Parts. [237]

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_Apud Athenaeum._

Advertis.e.m.e.nt [238]

Part I. The Prelude / Ent.i.tled / "The Usurper's Fortune." / [241]

Part II. The Sequel / Ent.i.tled / "The Usurper's Fate" 274

VOLUME III

The Piccolomini, / Or / The First Part of Wallenstein. / A Drama. / Translated from the German of Schiller / 1 The / Death of Wallenstein. / A Tragedy, / In Five Acts 249

XXI

THE / POETICAL WORKS / Of / S. T. COLERIDGE, / Including the Dramas of / Wallenstein, Remorse, and Zapolya. / In Three Volumes. / Vol. I, Vol.

II, &c. / LONDON: William Pickering. / MDCCCXXIX. [8{o}.

_Collation._--Vol. I. t.i.tle, one leaf, p. [iii]; The Imprint, Thomas White, Printer, / Johnson's Court. /, is at the foot of p. [iv]; Contents, pp. [v]-x; Preface, pp. [1]-7; Half-t.i.tle, JUVENILE POEMS, p.

[9]; Text, pp. [11]-353; The Imprint, Thomas White, &c., below a figure of a girl as in No. XX, is in the centre of p. 354.

[The Half-t.i.tle and Mottoes are the same as in Vol. I of 1828, No. XX.]

Vol. II. t.i.tle, one leaf; The Imprint, Thomas White, Printer, / Johnson's Court. /, is at the foot of the Reverse, unpaged; Half-t.i.tle, The Rime / of / THE ANCIENT MARINER. / In Seven Parts. /, p. [1]; Motto from T. Burnet, _Archaeol. Phil._, p. 68, p. [2]; Text, pp. [3]-394; The Imprint, Thomas White, &c., is at the foot of p. 394.

[The Half-t.i.tles and Mottoes are the same as in Vol. II of 1828, No.

XX.]

Vol. III. For Collation see Vol. III of 1828, No. XX.

[The t.i.tle-page of this edition (Vols. I, II, III) is ornamented with the Aldine Device, and the Motto, Aldi / Discip. / Anglvs./]

PREFACE

The Preface is the same as that of 1808 and 1828, with the addition of the following pa.s.sage (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 cla.s.s of faults, which I had, viz. a too ornate, and elaborately poetic diction, and nothing having come before the judgement-seat 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 manner--faults which a.s.suredly did not enter into the character of my compositions.--LITERARY LIFE, i. 51. Published 1817.' In the _Biog.

Lit._ (loc. cit.) the last seven lines of the quotation read as follows--'judgement-seat in the interim, I should, year after year, quarter after quarter, month after month (not to mention sundry petty periodicals of still quicker revolution, 'or weekly or diurnal') have been for at least seventeen years consecutively dragged forth by these into the foremost rank of the _proscribed_, and forced to abide the brunt of abuse, for faults directly opposite, and which I certainly had not. How shall I explain this?'

_Contents._--The Contents of Vols. I and III are identical with the Contents of Vols. I and III of 1828 (No. XX): A 'Song' (Tho' veiled in spires of myrtle wreath), p. 78, and 'The Alienated Mistress: A Madrigal' (If Love be dead, &c.), p. 93 of Vol. II, 1828, are omitted in Vol. II of 1829; and 'The Allegoric Vision,' 'The Improvisatore, or John Anderson, My Jo, John' [New Thoughts on old Subjects], and 'The Garden of Boccaccio' are inserted in Vol. II of 1829; between 'The Wanderings of Cain' and 'Remorse', pp. 116-42. The text of 1829, which J. D.

Campbell followed in _P. W._, 1893, differs from that of 1828.

XXII

The / Poetical Works / Of / Coleridge, Sh.e.l.ley, and Keats. / Complete in One Volume. / Paris / Published by A. and W. Galignani / No. 18, Rue Vivienne / 1829. / [8{o}.

_Collation._--General half-t.i.tle, one leaf; The imprint, Printed by Jules Didot Senior, / Printer to His Majesty, Rue du Pont-de-Lodi, No.

6, is on the reverse of the half-t.i.tle; t.i.tle, one leaf, unpaged; Notice of the Publishers, one leaf, unpaged; half-t.i.tle, The / Poetical Works / of / Samuel Taylor Coleridge. / pp. [i-ii]; Contents, pp. [iii]-iv; Memoir of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, pp. [v]-xi; Text, pp. [1]-225.

[_Note._--A lithographed vignette of a Harp, &c., is in the centre of the t.i.tle-page. The frontispiece consists of three portraits of Coleridge (Northcote), Sh.e.l.ley, and Keats, engraved by J. T. Wedgwood.

The contents are identical with those of 1829, with the following additions: (1) 'Recantation--ill.u.s.trated in the story of the Mad Ox'; (2) 'The Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie' (as published in the _Morning Post_, Dec. 21, 1799); (3) 'The Composition of a Kiss'; (4) 'To a Friend together with an unpublished Poem'; (5) 'The Hour when we shall meet again'; (6) 'Lines to Joseph Cottle'; (7) 'On the Christening of a Friend's Child'; (8) 'The Fall of Robespierre'; (9) 'What is Life?'; (10) 'The Exchange'; (11) Seven Epigrams, viz. (1) 'Names'; (2) Job's Luck'; (3) 'Hoa.r.s.e Maevius', &c.; (4) 'There comes from old Avaro's', &c.; (5) 'Last Monday', &c.; (6) 'Your Poem ', &c. (7) 'Swans sing', &c. ('Job's Luck' had been republished in _The Crypt_, 1827, and the other six in _The Keepsake_, 1829.) 'Fancy in Nubibus, or the Poet in the Clouds' (vide _ante_, p. 435), p. 216, was repeated on p. 217, under the t.i.tle 'Sonnet, composed by the Seaside, October 1817', with two variants, 'yield' for 'let' in line 4, and 'To' for 'Own' in line 5.

'Love's Burial-Place', and Song, 'Tho' veiled', &c., which had appeared in 1828, were not included in _Galignani_, 1829.]

XXIII

The Devil's Walk; / A Poem. / By / Professor Porson. / Edited with a Biographical Memoir and Notes, By / H. W. Montagu, / Author of Montmorency, Poems, etc. etc. etc. / Ill.u.s.trated with Beautiful Engravings on wood by Bonner and / Sladen, After the Designs of R.

Cruikshank. / G???? sea?t?? / London: / Marsh and Miller, Oxford Street.

/ And Constable and Co. Edinburgh. [1830.] [12{o}.

_Collation._--t.i.tle, one leaf, p. [iii]; The Imprint, London: / Printed by Samuel Bentley, / Dorset-Street, Fleet-Street, is in the centre of p.

[iv]; Preface, pp. [v]-viii; Text, pp. [9]-32; 'Variations', p. 33; Advertis.e.m.e.nt of New Works Published by Marsh and Miller, p. [34]-[36].

[_Note._--The motto G???? ?.t.? may have suggested Coleridge's lines ent.i.tled 'Self-knowledge' (_ante_, p. 487). The Pamphlet is enclosed in a paper cover, The Devil's Walk; / By / Professor Porson. / With Ill.u.s.trations by R. Cruikshank. / London: / Marsh and Miller. / 1830. / _Price One Shilling._ / The Ill.u.s.trations consist of a Frontispiece and five others to face pp. 10, 14, 19, 24, and 31.]

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). G???? sea?t?? / Second Edition. / London: Alfred Miller, 137, Oxford Street; / And Constable, Edinburgh; / Griffin, Glasgow; and Milliken, Dublin. / [1830]. [12{o}.

_Collation._--t.i.tle, one leaf, p. [iii]; The Imprint, as in No. XXIII, is in the centre of p. [iv]; Advertis.e.m.e.nt, pp. [v]-vi; Preface, pp.

[vii]-x; Text, pp. 11-32; Variations, p. 33; Advertis.e.m.e.nt (as in No.

XXIII), p. [34].

[_Note._--The Advertis.e.m.e.nt, 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 ent.i.tled Facetiae, Being a General Collection of the Jeux d' Esprit which have been ill.u.s.trated by Robert Cruikshank.

London: William Kidd, 6, Old Bond Street. MDCCCx.x.xI. It is followed by the 'Devil's Visit', and 'The Real Devil's Walk.']

XXV

Ten Etchings, / Ill.u.s.trations of the / Devil's Walk. / By / Thomas Landseer. / London: / Published by R. G. Standing, / 24, Cornhill. / 1831. / [Folio.

_Collation._--t.i.tle, 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 ill.u.s.trations, unpaged, with a single stanza at the foot of each ill.u.s.tration.