Chapter CX: Preface

The Preface is the same as that of 1808 and 1828, with the 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 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 assuredly 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, Shelley, and Keats. / Complete in One Volume. / Paris / Published by A. and W. Galignani / No. 18, Rue Vivienne / 1829. / [8{o}.

_Collation._--General half-title, 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-title; Title, one leaf, unpaged; Notice of the Publishers, one leaf, unpaged; half-title, 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 title-page. The frontispiece consists of three portraits of Coleridge (Northcote), Shelley, and Keats, engraved by J. T. Wedgwood.

The contents are identical with those of 1829, with the following additions: (1) 'Recantation--illustrated 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) 'Hoarse 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 title '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. / Illustrated with Beautiful Engravings on wood by Bonner and / Sladen, After the Designs of R. Cruikshank. / Γνωθι σεαυτον / London: / Marsh and Miller, Oxford Street. / And Constable and Co. Edinburgh. [1830.] [12{o}.

_Collation._--Title, 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; Advertisement of New Works Published by Marsh and Miller, p. [34]-[36].

[_Note._--The motto Γνωθι κ.τ.λ may have suggested Coleridge's lines entitled 'Self-knowledge' (_ante_, p. 487). The Pamphlet is enclosed in a paper cover, The Devil's Walk; / By / Professor Porson. / With Illustrations by R. Cruikshank. / London: / Marsh and Miller. / 1830. / _Price One Shilling._ / The Illustrations 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). Γνωθι σεαυτον / Second Edition. / London: Alfred Miller, 137, Oxford Street; / And Constable, Edinburgh; / Griffin, Glasgow; and Milliken, Dublin. / [1830]. [12{o}.

_Collation._--Title, one leaf, p. [iii]; The Imprint, as in No. XXIII, is in the centre of p. [iv]; Advertisement, pp. [v]-vi; Preface, pp. [vii]-x; Text, pp. 11-32; Variations, p. 33; Advertisement (as in No. XXIII), p. [34].

[_Note._--The Advertisement, 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 entitled Facetiae, Being a General Collection of the Jeux d' Esprit which have been illustrated by Robert Cruikshank. London: William Kidd, 6, Old Bond Street. MDCCCXXXI. It is followed by the 'Devil's Visit', and 'The Real Devil's Walk.']

XXV

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

_Collation._--Title, 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 illustrations, unpaged, with a single stanza at the foot of each illustration.

XXVI

THE POETICAL WORKS Of / S. T. COLERIDGE / Vol. I, Vol. II, &c. / LONDON / William Pickering / 1834 / [8{o}.

_Collation._--Vol. I. Half-title, The Poetical Works Of / S. T. Coleridge / In Three Volumes / Vol. I, one leaf, p. [i]; Title, one leaf, pp. [iii]-[iv]; The Imprint, Charles Whittingham / London /, is at the foot of p. [iv]; Preface, pp. [v]-x; Contents, pp. [xi]-xiv; Text, pp. [1]-288; The Imprint, London: / Printed by C. Whittingham, Tooks Court. /, is at the foot of p. 288.

Vol. II. Half-title (as in Vol. I), Vol. II, one leaf, pp. [i]-[ii]; Title, one leaf, pp. [iii]-[iv]; The Imprint (as in Vol. I) is at the foot of p. iv: Contents, pp. [v]-vi; Text, pp. [1]-338; The Imprint (as in Vol. I) is at the foot of p. 338.

Vol. III. Half-title (as in Vol. I), pp. [i]-[ii]; Title, one leaf, pp. [iii]-[iv]; The Imprint (as in Vol. I) is at the foot of p. [iv]; Half-title, The Piccolomini, &c., p. [1]; Preface to the First Edition, p. [3]; Text, pp. [5]-330; 'Love, Hope, and Patience in Education', p. 331; Erratum, p. [332]; The Imprint (as in Vol. I) is at the foot of p. [332].

[_Note._--This edition, the last printed in the lifetime of the author, was reprinted in 1835, 1840, 1844, 1847, &c. The Title-page is ornamented with the Aldine device and motto as in No. XXI.]

CONTENTS

[Preface, same as 1829, No. XXI, pp. [v]-x; the titles of Poems not published or collected before 1834 are italicized.]

Page Page of the
Half-title 1834 present
edition
JUVENILE POEMS [1]
Genevieve 3 19
Sonnet. To the Autumnal Moon 3 5
_Anthem for the Children of Christ's Hospital_ 4 5
Time, real and imaginary 5 419
Monody on the Death of Chatterton 6 13
Songs of the Pixies 13 40
The Raven 18 169
_Music_ 20 28
_Devonshire Roads_ 21 27
_Inside the Coach_ 22 26
_Mathematical Problem_ 23 21
_The Nose_ 27 8
_Monody on a Tea-Kettle_ 29 18
_Absence, a Farewell Ode_ 30 29
_Sonnet. On Leaving School_ 31 29
_To the Muse_ 32 9
_With Fielding's Amelia_ 33 37
_Sonnet. On hearing that his Sister's Death was
inevitable_ 33 20
_On Seeing a Youth affectionately welcomed by a
Sister_ 34 21
_The same_ 35 78
_Pain_ 35 17
_Life_ 36 11
Lines on an Autumnal Evening 36 51
The Rose 40 45
The Kiss 41 63
To a Young Ass 43 74
_Happiness_ 44 30
Domestic Peace 48 71
The Sigh 48 62
Epitaph on an Infant 49 68
_On Imitation_ 50 26
_Honor_ 50 24
_Progress of Vice_ 53 12
Lines written at the King's Arms, Ross 54 57
_Destruction of the Bastile_ 55 10
Lines to a beautiful Spring in a Village 57 58
On a Friend who died of a Frenzy Fever induced by
calumnious reports 58 76
To a Young Lady, with a Poem on the French
Revolution 60 64
Sonnet I. "My Heart has thanked thee, Bowles" 62 84
---- II. "As late I lay in Slumber's Shadowy
Vale." 63 80
---- III. "Though roused by that dark vizir Riot
rude" 64 81
---- IV. "When British Freedom for a happier
land" 64 79
---- V. "It was some Spirit, Sheridan!" 65 87
---- VI. "O what a loud and fearful shriek" 66 82
---- VII. "As when far off" 66 82
---- VIII. "Thou gentle look" 67 47
---- IX. "Pale Roamer through the Night!" 68 71
---- X. "Sweet Mercy!" 68 93
---- XI. "Thou Bleedest, my Poor Heart!". 69 72
---- XII. To the Author of the Robbers. 70 72
Lines composed while climbing Brockley Coomb 70 94
Lines in the Manner of Spenser 71 94
Imitated from Ossian 73 38
The Complaint of Ninathoma 74 39
Imitated from the Welsh 75 58
To an Infant 75 91
Lines in Answer to a Letter from Bristol 76 96
To a Friend in Answer to a melancholy Letter 80 90
Religious Musings 82 108
The Destiny of Nations, a Vision 98 131

Half-title

Sibylline Leaves. / I. Poems occasioned by Political
Events / Or Feelings Connected / With
them. / [119]
Motto--When I have borne in memory, &c. (fourteen
lines), Wordsworth [120]
Ode to the Departing Year [121] 160
France, an Ode 128 243
Fears in Solitude 132 256
Fire, Famine, and Slaughter 141 237

II. LOVE POEMS [145]
Motto--eleven lines from a Latin poem of Petrarch [145]
Love [145] 330
_The Ballad of the Dark Ladie. A Fragment_ 150 293
Lewti, or the Circassian Love Chaunt 152 253
The Picture, or the Lover's Resolution 155 369
The Night Scene, a Dramatic Fragment 162 421
To an Unfortunate Woman 166 172
To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre 167 171
Lines Composed in a Concert Room 168 324
The Keepsake 170 345
To a Lady, with Falconer's Shipwreck 172 424
To a Young Lady on her recovery from a Fever 173 252
Something Childish, but very Natural 174 313
Home-sick: written in Germany 175 314
Answer to a Child's Question 176 386
A Child's Evening Prayer 176 401
The Visionary Hope 177 416
The Happy Husband 178 388
Recollections of Love 179 409
On revisiting the Sea-Shore 181 359

III. MEDITATIVE POEMS. / In Blank Verse [183]
Motto--eight lines translated from Schiller [183]
Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni 183 376
Lines written in the Album at Elbingerode in
the Hartz Forest 187 315
On observing a Blossom on the First of February 189 148
The Æolian Harp 190 100
Reflections on having left a place of
Retirement 393 106
To the Rev. George Coleridge 196 173
Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath 199 381
A Tombless Epitaph 200 413
This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison 201 178
To a Friend, who had declared his intention of
writing no more Poetry 205 158
To William Wordsworth, composed on the night
after his recitation of a Poem on the growth
of an individual mind 206 403
The Nightingale 211 264
Frost at Midnight 216 240
The Three Graves 219 267

ODES AND MISCELLANEOUS POEMS 235
Dejection, an Ode 235 362
Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire 241 335
Ode to Tranquillity 244 360
To a Young Friend, on his proposing to
domesticate with the Author 246
Lines to W. L. while he sang a song to
Purcell's Music 249 286
Addressed to a Young Man of Fortune 249 157
Sonnet. To the River Otter 250 48
---- Composed on a journey homeward after
hearing of the birth of a son 251 153
---- To a Friend 252 154
The Virgin's Cradle Hymn 252 417
Epitaph on an Infant 253 417
Melancholy, a Fragment 253 73
Tell's Birth Place 254 309
A Christmas Carol 256 338
Human Life 258 425
_Moles_ 259 430
The Visit of the Gods 259 310
Elegy, imitated from Akenside 261 69
_Separation_ 262 397
_On Taking Leave of ----_ 263 410
The Pang more sharp than all 263 457
Kubla Khan 266 295
The Pains of Sleep 270 389
_Limbo_ 272 429
_Ne plus ultra_ 273 431
Apologetic Preface to Fire, Famine, and
Slaughter 274

END OF VOL. I

VOLUME II

THE ANCIENT MARINER.