The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Chapter 406 : THE DRAMATIC WORKS of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by Derwent Coleridge. A New Edit

THE DRAMATIC WORKS of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by Derwent Coleridge. A New Edition. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. 1852.

[8{o}, pp. xvi + 427.

CONTENTS

Remorse. A Tragedy in Five Acts.

Zapolya. A Christmas Tale. In two Parts. Part I. The Prelude, &c.

Zapolya. Part II. The Sequel, ent.i.tled 'The Usurper's Fate.'

The Piccolomini; or the first part of 'Wallenstein.' A Drama.

Translated from Schiller.

The Death of Wallenstein. A Tragedy. In Five Acts.

Notes.

_Note._--The Preface contains a critical estimate of _Remorse_ and _Zapolya_, and of the translation of Schiller's _Wallenstein_. At the close of the Preface [pp. xii-xiv] the Editor comments on the strictures of a writer in the _Westminster Review_, Art. 3 July 1850 (vide _ante_, p. 811), and upholds the merits of the Translation as a whole. The Preface is dated 'St. Mark's College, Chelsea, _July_, 1852'.

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THE COMPLETE WORKS of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. With an Introductory Essay upon his Philosophical and Theological opinions. Edited by Professor Shedd. In Seven Volumes. Vol. vii. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Nos. 329 and 331 Pearl Street, Franklin Square.

1853.

Second t.i.tle.--The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1853. [8{o}, pp. xiv + 15-702.

The Contents are identical with those of 1834, with ten additions first collected in 1844. The Fall of Robespierre is included in the Dramatic Works. 'Lines in Answer to a Letter from Bristol', pp. 67-70, are reprinted as 'Lines Written at Shurton Bars near Bridgewater', pp. 103-5 (vide _ante_, p. 96). Vol. vii was republished with an Index to the preceding six volumes in 1854.

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THE POEMS of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by Derwent and Sara Coleridge. With a Biographical Memoir By Ferdinand Freiligrath.

Copyright Edition. Leipzig Bernhard Tauchnitz 1860.

_Collation._--General Half-t.i.tle, one leaf, Collection of British Authors. Vol. 512. The Poems, &c. (4 lines). In One Volume, p. [i]; t.i.tle, p. [iii]; Half-t.i.tle, Biographical Memoir of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. By Ferdinand Freiligrath, p. [iv]; Advertis.e.m.e.nts, p. [v]; Biographical Memoir, pp. [vi]-xxviii; Advertis.e.m.e.nt (to ed. of 1852), p. xxix; Preface, pp. [x.x.xi]-xl; Contents, pp. [xli]-xlv. Text, pp.

[1]-336; Notes, pp. [337]-344.

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THE POEMS of S. T. Coleridge. London: Bell and Daldy. 1862.

[16{mo}, pp. xiii + 299.

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THE POEMS of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by Derwent and Sara Coleridge. With an Appendix. A New Edition. London: Edward Moxon & Co., Dover Street. 1863.

[8{o}, pp. xxvii + [1]-378 + Notes, pp. [379]-388 + Appendix, pp.

[391]-404.

The text of the Poems is identical with that of 1852, but a fresh 'Advertis.e.m.e.nt', pp. [iii]-iv, is prefixed to the 'Advertis.e.m.e.nt' dated May, 1852.

_ADVERTIs.e.m.e.nT_

The last authorised edition of S. T. Coleridge's Poems, published by Mr.

Moxon in 1852, bears the names of Derwent and Sara Coleridge, as joint editors. In writing my name with my sister's, I yielded to her particular desire and request, but the work was performed almost entirely by herself. My opinion was consulted as to the general arrangement, and more especially as to the choice or rejection of particular pieces. Even here I had no occasion to do more than confirm the conclusions to which she had herself arrived, and sanction the course which she had herself adopted. I shared in the responsibility, but cannot claim any share in the credit of the undertaking. This edition I propose to leave intact as it came from her own hands. I wish it to remain as one among other monuments of her fine taste, her solid judgment, and her scrupulous conscientiousness.

A few pieces of some interest appear, however, to have been overlooked.

Two characteristic sonnets, not included in any former edition of the Poems, have been preserved in an anonymous work, ent.i.tled 'Letters, Recollections, and Conversations of S. T. Coleridge.' These with a further selection from the omitted pieces, princ.i.p.ally from the Juvenile Poems, have been added in an Appendix. So placed, they will not at any rate interfere with the general effect of the collection, while they add to its completeness.

All these buds of promise were once withdrawn, and, afterwards reproduced by the Author. It is not easy now to draw a line of separation, which shall not be deemed either too indulgent, or too severe. [The concluding lines of the 'Advertis.e.m.e.nt' dealt with questions of copyright].

DERWENT COLERIDGE.

APPENDIX

[First printed in 1863.]

1. To Nature. [_Letters, Conversations_, &c., 1836, i. 144.]

2. Farewell to Love. [Ibid., i. 143.]

3. 'I yet remain', &c. [First six lines by W. L. Bowles.]

4. Count Rumford's Essays. [By W. L. Bowles.]

5. 'The early Year's', &c. [Ver perpetuum, _ante_, p. 148.]

6. To the Rev. W. J. H. [1796.]

7. To a Primrose. [_The Watchman_.]

8. On the Christening of a Friend's Child. [1797.]

9. Mutual Pa.s.sion. [_Sibylline Leaves._]

10. From a Young Lady. [The Silver Thimble, _ante_, p. 104.]

11. Translation of a Paraphrase of the Gospels. [_Biog. Lit._, 1807, i. 203, 204.]

12. Israel's Lament. [_Ante_, pp. 433, 434.]

_Notes._--(1) No. 4 forms part of a Poem 'On Mr. Howard's Account of Lazarettos,' _Sonnets, with other Poems_, 1794, pp. 52, 53. See Mr. T.

Hutchinson's note in the _Athenaeum_, May 3, 1902.

(2) An MS. of No. 10, 'From a Young Lady', is preserved in the library of Rugby School. The poem is dated August, 1795, and is partly in the 'Young Lady's' handwriting. It is signed 'Sara[*h*] Fricker', a proof that her future husband meant from the first to alter the spelling of her name.

(3) The frontispiece of this edition is a lithograph by W. Hall of a portrait of Coleridge, aet. 26, formerly in the possession of Thomas Poole.

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THE POEMS of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by Derwent and Sara Coleridge. With an Appendix. A new and enlarged edition, with a brief Life of the author. London: E. Moxon and Co., 44 Dover Street. [1870.]

[8{o}, pp. lxvii + 429.

_Note._--The Contents of 1870 are identical with those of 1863, with the addition of an Introductory Essay (i. e. a Critical Memoir) by Derwent Coleridge, pp. xxiii-lix. 'The Rime of the Ancyent Mariner,' in Seven Parts, was reprinted verbatim from the original as it appeared in _Lyrical Ballads_, 1798. The Introductory Memoir (an 'Essay in a Brief Model') has never been reprinted.

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THE RAVEN. A Poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Ill.u.s.trated by Ella Hallward With an Introduction by the Hon. Stephen Coleridge. H. S.