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 WRITINGS IN VERSE AND PROSE 
 
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 ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER 
 
 PUBLISHED AND PRIVATELY-PRINTED WRITINGS 
 IN VERSE AND PROSE 
 
 OP 
 
 SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 
 
 INCLUDING 
 
 HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANNUALS, MAGAZINES, 
 
 AND PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS; POSTHUMOUS 
 
 WORKS, MEMOIRS, EDITIONS, Etc. 
 
 BY THE LATE 
 
 RICHARD HERNE SHEPHERD 
 
 REVISED, CORRECTED, AND ENLARGED BY 
 
 COLONEL W. F. PRIDEAUX, C.S.I. 
 
 LONDON 
 
 FRANK HOLLINGS 
 
 7 GREAT TURNSTILE, HOLBORN, W.C. 
 
 MCM 
 
A.i 
 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 The following Bibliography was originally 
 published during the summer of 1895 in 
 Notes and Queries* It had been the inten- 
 tion of Mr. Shepherd to reprint it with addi- 
 tions and corrections in a separate pamphlet 
 form, uniform with the privately printed 
 bibliographies previously issued by him be- 
 tween 1878 and 1887, but this design was 
 interrupted by his premature death. As 
 several notes which had been collected by 
 him for this purpose were in existence, it has 
 been thought well to complete the work 
 according to his original design, and to lay 
 
 * 8th S., vii. 361, 401, 44.3, 482, 502. 
 
vi INTRODUCTION 
 
 the results before the public. This design 
 was, briefly, to give a bibliographical list of 
 (#) all the works in prose and verse which 
 had been written by Coleridge, or to which 
 he had contributed, during his lifetime ; 
 (b) all the collected editions of his poems (for 
 no collected edition of his prose works has 
 yet been issued in England) which possess 
 any individual features of their own, and are 
 not mere reprints of former editions ; (f) the 
 posthumous works edited by his relatives and 
 friends ; (d) the principal Memoirs, Bio- 
 graphies, and Recollections which deal with 
 his life and character ; and (e) the chief books 
 and periodicals containing letters of Coleridge 
 or referring to his marginalia, lectures, and 
 other literary remains. Every effort has been 
 made to render the Bibliography, within these 
 limits, as complete and accurate as possible ; 
 but it would have been beyond its scope to 
 have enumerated the numerous books of an 
 unimportant nature, or the countless maga- 
 zine articles dealing with the life and work 
 
INTRODUCTION vii 
 
 of Coleridge which have been published since 
 his death. In revising Mr. Shepherd's work, 
 I have endeavoured to preserve its physio- 
 gnomy as far as possible, and to keep it in 
 line with his previous bibliographies. 
 
 It no more falls within the province of a 
 bibliographer than it does within that of an 
 anatomist to give an estimate of the character 
 of his " subject," either as a writer or a man. 
 The less is this necessary in the case of 
 Coleridge, as within recent years two most 
 illuminative " appreciations " of him have 
 been given to the world which leave little for 
 any succeeding writer to say. The study 
 of Coleridge, firstly as a psychologist and 
 secondly as a poet, which Mr. Walter Pater 
 prefixed to the selections from his poems in 
 Mr. T. H. Ward's " English Poets," and 
 which was afterwards published in " Appre- 
 ciations, with an Essay on Style," reaches, I 
 venture to think, the high-water mark of 
 criticism, but it is closely approached by the 
 admirable essay which serves as an Introduc- 
 
viii INTRODUCTION 
 
 tion to Dr. Richard Garnett's edition of " The 
 Poetry of Coleridge " in " The Muses' 
 Library." But neither of these writers lays 
 much stress upon what seems to me the 
 dominant feature in Coleridge's character. 
 Mr. Dykes Campbell points out that " his 
 will was congenitally weak, and his habits 
 weakened it still further " ; but I apprehend 
 that it was not so much weakness of will 
 as absolute absence of volition, which chiefly 
 characterized him. A remark which was made 
 by a shrewd and observant associate of his 
 more youthful days has much impressed me. 
 Charles Lloyd wrote in a letter to his 
 brother* when The Friend was in its earliest 
 struggles : " Coleridge has such a lamentable 
 want of voluntary power. If he is excited by 
 a remark in company, he will pour forth, in 
 an evening, without the least apparent effort, 
 what would furnish matter for a hundred 
 essays ; but the moment that he is to write, 
 not from present impulse, but from pre- 
 
 * "Charles Lamb and the Lloyds," 1898, p. 244. 
 
INTRODUCTION ix 
 
 ordained deliberation, his powers fail him, 
 and I believe there are times when he could 
 not pen the commonest notes." This failing 
 is prominent throughout his literary life ; his 
 motive-power was external to himself. He 
 first lighted his torch at the fire that burnt 
 on Bowles's altar. His acquaintance with 
 Wordsworth led to the discovery of the 
 romance there is in Nature. But even then 
 his inspiration needed a spur, and it was 
 a paragraph in Shelvocke that produced the 
 first imaginative poem of the century, and 
 a doze over Marco Polo's description of the 
 Great Kaan in Xanadu that begot a fragment 
 that has no rival out of dreamland. There can 
 be little doubt that some accidental circum- 
 stance of a similar nature led to the inception 
 of " Christabel "; but when the time arrived 
 for the completion of the poem the stimulus 
 had vanished. It is this want of initiative, 
 combined with an imagination almost mes- 
 meric in its power, that renders Coleridge so 
 commanding and yet so feeble a personality. 
 
x INTRODUCTION 
 
 To revert to the Bibliography, I must 
 record with gratitude the great assistance 
 I have received from the late Mr. Dykes 
 Campbell's edition of Coleridge's " Poetical 
 Works "; and it is pleasant to recall the 
 cordial manner in which that ideal Editor on 
 more than one occasion referred to the work 
 of his predecessor, the compiler of this Biblio- 
 graphy, whose edition of the Poems appeared 
 in 1877. Mr. Shepherd's Memoir which 
 was prefixed to that edition is also mentioned 
 in appreciative terms by Dr. Garnett. In 
 conclusion, I have to express my obligations 
 to Mr. Brimley Johnson for some valuable 
 Cambridge notes, and to Mr. W. C. Beeten- 
 son for the help he has afforded me in pre- 
 paring these pages for the press, and in the 
 work of revision and collation. 
 
 W. F. P. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 PACE 
 SEPARATE WORKS AND POEMS - - - - I 
 
 COLLECTED EDITIONS OF THE POEMS AND DRAMAS - 54 
 POSTHUMOUS WORKS ------ 64. 
 
 MEMOIRS AND RECOLLECTIONS - - - " 7 2 
 
 TABLE-TALK - - - - - " " 7 ^ 
 
 MARGINALIA ------- 79 
 
 LECTURES - - - - - - -8l 
 
 CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANNUALS - - - - 84 
 
 APPENDIX ___---- 89 
 
THE 
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF COLERIDGE. 
 
 SEPARATE WORKS AND POEMS 
 PUBLISHED BEFORE 1834. 
 
 1792. 
 
 Greek Prize Ode on the Slave Trade. 
 Cambridge, 1792. 
 
 This Ode, of which a few stanzas were printed by 
 Coleridge as a note to his portion of the " Joan of Arc " 
 volume of 1796, was first published in Mr. Dykes 
 Campbell's edition of the "Poetical Works," 1893, 
 Appendix B, p. 476. It won for Coleridge the Browne 
 Gold Medal. 
 
2 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1794. 
 
 1794- 
 Monody on the Death of Chatterton. 
 
 The first draft of this poem, which differs materially 
 from, and is much shorter than, the later and revised 
 versions, was contributed to a book of exercises kept 
 by the Head Master of Christ's Hospital. It next ap- 
 peared, altered and enlarged, but anonymously, in a 
 one-volume octavo edition of Chatterton's "Rowley 
 Poems," published at Cambridge while Coleridge was 
 in residence there. 
 
 The engraved title reads : " Poems, supposed to have 
 been written at Bristol in the 15th century, by Thomas 
 Rowley. Cke trae Fhuome del sepolcro ed in vita il 
 serba. Petrarca. Cambridge. Printed by B. Flower 
 for the Editor and sold by J. and J. Merrill and W. H. 
 Lunn, Cambridge, Egertons, Military Library, Debrett, 
 Piccadilly, Edwards, Pall Mall, and Deighton, Holborn, 
 London." 8vo., pp. xxix+ 329. 
 
 The preface is signed " L.S." (Lancelot Sharpe), and 
 is dated "Pembroke Coll. July 20, 1794." Cole- 
 ridge's "Monody" occupies pp. xxv-xxviii. 
 
 The Fall of Robespierre. An Historic 
 Drama. By S. T. Coleridge, of Jesus 
 College, Cambridge. Cambridge : Printed 
 by Benjamin Flower, for W. H. Lunn, 
 and J. and J. Merrill ; and sold by J. March, 
 Norwich, 1 794 [Price One Shilling]. 8vo., 
 
I794-] °F COLERIDGE 3 
 
 pp. 37. Dedication (p. 3) to H. Martin, 
 Esq., of Jesus College, Cambridge. 
 
 Contains the song of " Domestic Peace," afterwards 
 included in the Bristol volume of 1796. There is 
 /generally stitched in at the end, or bound up with this 
 tragedy, ** Proposals for publishing by subscription-, 
 Imitations from the Modern Latin Poets, with a 
 Critical and Bibliographical Essay on the Restoration 
 of Literature. By S. T. Coleridge, of Jesus College, 
 Cambridge." This was to include a selection from the 
 Lyrics of Casimir and anew translation of the Basia of 
 Secundus. The scheme was never carried out, and 
 only two or three specimens remain in The Watchman 
 and elsewhere. The first only >of the three acts of this 
 tragedy was contributed by Coleridge, the other two 
 being written by Sou they,, whose -name, however, does 
 not appear. Five hundred copies were printed, and 
 sold at a shilling. This juvenile work is reprinted in 
 the first volume of Coleridge's "Literary Remains," 
 published posthumously in 1836, and in the four-volume 
 edition of Coleridge's " Poetical and Dramatic Works," 
 published by the late Mr. Basil Montagu Pickering in 
 1877, and afterwards reissued by Macmilkn and Co, 
 in 1880. 
 
 1 794-1 795. 
 Contributions in Verse to The Cambridge 
 Intelligencer and to The Morning Chronicle,, 
 
4 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1794. 
 
 including a series of Sonnets to Eminent 
 Characters. Some of these, but not all, 
 were reprinted, with more or less alteration, 
 in the volume of " Poems," by S. T. Cole- 
 ridge, published at Bristol in 1796. 
 
 An incomplete collection of The Cambridge Intelli- 
 gencer, containing some, but wanting also some, of the 
 Coleridge numbers, is among the " Country News- 
 papers " in the Library of the British Museum. 
 Whether a complete file of the newspaper exists at 
 Cambridge or elsewhere I have had no opportunity of 
 ascertaining.* It is amusing to find that in 1795 Cole- 
 ridge professed already to look upon Southey as an 
 " Eminent Character." Southey had, at that time, 
 published nothing with his name, except a thin volume 
 of " Poems," by " Bion and Moschus " (the joint pro- 
 duction of himself and Robert Lovell), which had just 
 appeared at Bath.t 
 
 The following is a fairly complete list of Coleridge's 
 recognised contributions : 
 
 * I have a note to the effect that a complete series 
 is in the possession of Mr. Fordham, of Ashwell, Herts. 
 —Ed. 
 
 t " Poems," by Robert Lovell and Robert Southey, 
 of Balliol College. Bath : Printed by A. Cruttwell, 
 *795- 
 
1 794-] OF COLERIDGE 5 
 
 " The Cambridge Intelligencer." 
 
 1. No. 63. 1794. Sept. 27. '* Lines written at the 
 
 King's Arms, Ross." 
 
 2. No. 65. 1794. Oct. 11. "Absence." 
 
 3. No. 67. 1794. Oct 25. "Anna and HarlanoV 
 
 4. No. 68. 1794. Nov. 1. "Genevieve." 
 
 5. No. 179. 1796. Dec. 17. "Addressed to a 
 
 Young Man of Fortune." 
 
 6. No. 181. 1796. Dec. 31. "Ode for the Last 
 
 Day of the Year 1796."* 
 
 "The Morning Chronicle." 
 
 1. 1793. Nov. 7. " To Fortune.' - 
 
 2. 1794. Sept. 23 or 27 (?). "Elegy, imitated from 
 
 Akenside." 
 „ „ "Epitaph on an Infant," 
 
 3. 1794, Dec. 1. "To the Honourable Mr. Erskine." 
 
 (Sonnet I.) 
 
 ' Burke." (Sonnet II.) 
 ' Priestley." (Sonnet III.) 
 ' La Fayette." (Sonnet IV.) 
 ' Koskiusko." (Sonnet V.) 
 'Pitt." (Sonnet VI.) 
 ' To the Rev. W. L. Bowles." 
 
 * Simultaneously printed as a separate quarto 
 pamphlet under the title of "Ode on the Departing 
 Year" (see p. 15). 
 
 4- 
 
 1794.. Dec. 9. " 
 
 5- 
 
 1794. Dec. 11. ' 
 
 6. 
 
 1794. Dec. 15. ' 
 
 7- 
 
 1794. Dec. 16. ' 
 
 8. 
 
 1794. Dec. 23. ' 
 
 9- 
 
 1794. Dec. 26. ' 
 
 
 (Sonnet VII.) 
 
THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1795-. 
 
 10.. 1794. Dec. 29. "Mrs.Siddons." (Sonnet VIII.) 
 11. 1794- Dec. 30. "Address to a Young Jackass 
 
 and its tethered Mother. In familiar verse."*' 
 rz. 1795. Jan.. 10.. "To William Godwin." 
 
 (Sonnet IX.) 
 s 3- 1795- Jan. 14.. "To, Robert Southey.'* 
 
 (Sonnet X.) 
 14. 1795. Jan. 29. " To Richard Brinsl'ey Sheridan, 
 
 Esq." (Sonnet XI.) 
 B5. 1795. Jan. 31. "To Lord Stanhope." 
 
 5795- 
 
 Poems by Francis Wrangham, M.A.,, 
 Member of Trinity College, Cambridge. 
 London : Sold by T. Mawman, 22, Poultry. 
 1 2mo., pp. viii + 1 1 1 . 
 
 This is a tiny volume of poems which were privately 
 printed in 1795 by the Rev. Francis (afterwards Arch- 
 deacon) Wrangham. At p. 78 are some Latin verses, 
 by Wrangham, headed " Hendecasyllabi ad Bruntonam 
 
 * A very early version of this poem, still existing in 
 Coleridge's manuscript, and headed " Monologue to a 
 Young Jackass in Jesus Piece — its Mother near it 
 chained to a Log," is printed by Mr. Dykes Campbell in 
 his edition of Coleridge's " Poetical Works," 189J, 
 P- 477> Appendix C. 
 
I795-] OF COLERIDGE 7 
 
 c Granta exituram," of which a translation by Cole- 
 ridge (whose initials, " S.T.C.," are given as those of 
 the author in the Table of Contents), headed "Trans- 
 lated by a Friend," was printed on the following page, 
 followed by a short original poem of three stanzas. 
 
 An interesting letter from Coleridge to Wrangham, 
 referring to this matter, was sold at Sotheby's on July 2 1 , 
 1900. This letter was dated September 26, 1794, and 
 contains the following passage : " I finished the trans- 
 lation — or rather Imitation of your exquisite Brun- 
 toniad. I am afraid the thoughts in my language will 
 appear like the Armour of Saul on David. However, 
 you have both the Esse and the Posse of my poor 
 Muse. I am labouring under a waking Night-mair 
 (sic) of Spirits." The translation referred to covered 
 two pages of the letter, and commenced : " To Miss 
 Brunton (now Mrs. Merry), on her departure from 
 Cambridge, Oct., 1790. Imitated from the Latin of 
 the Rev. F. Wrangham : 
 
 "Maid of unboastful charms, whom white -robed 
 truth," etc. 
 
 Wrangham's hendecasyllables were addressed to Miss 
 Elizabeth Brunton, the distinguished actress, who 
 married Robert Merry, the dramatist and Della-Crus- 
 can ; Coleridge's little poem to one of the younger 
 sisters, of whom there were five. The youngest of all, 
 Louisa, after a successful career on the stage, married 
 the Earl of Craven, but she was probably not more 
 than ten or twelve years of age in 1795. 
 
8 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1795. 
 
 A Moral and Political Lecture, de- 
 livered at Bristol. By S. T. Coleridge, of 
 Jesus College, Cambridge. 
 
 " To calm and guide 
 
 The swelling democratic tide ; 
 To watch the state's uncertain frame ; 
 To baffle Faction's partial aim ; 
 But chiefly with determined zeal 
 To quell the servile Band that kneel 
 To Freedom's jealous foes ; 
 And lash that monster, who is daily found 
 Expert and bold our Country's peace to wound, 
 Yet dreads to handle arms, nor manly counsel knows. ' 
 
 Akenside. 
 
 Bristol : Printed by George Routh, in Corn 
 Street. Price, Sixpence. 8vo., pp. 19. 
 
 This pamphlet was probably issued in February, 
 1795, and was reprinted in the following November, 
 with some alterations, under the following title : 
 
 Conciones ad Populum. Or Addresses to 
 the People. By S. T. Coleridge. 1795. 
 i2mo., pp. 69. 
 
 Issued in dark-blue wrapper, with half-title only, 
 bearing the author's, but no publisher's, name. In a 
 note to the Introduction of his " Second Lay Sermon," 
 
1796.] OF COLERIDGE 9 
 
 p. ix, Coleridge says of these Addresses that " though 
 a few copies were printed, they can scarcely be said to 
 have been published." 
 
 The Plot Discovered ; or, An Address to 
 the People, against Ministerial Treason, 
 by S. T. Coleridge. Bristol, 1795. Small 
 8vo., pp. 52. 
 
 Issued in gray wrappers, the upper one bearing the 
 half-title, "A Protest against Certain Bills. Bristol : 
 Printed for the Author, November 28, 1795." 
 
 Like the preceding item, this pamphlet bears no 
 printer's or publisher's name ; but in an advertisement 
 page attached to the "Poems" of 1796 the publisher 
 of both brochures, as well as of The Watchman, is stated 
 to be Parsons, of Paternoster Row. 
 
 1796. 
 
 The Watchman : a Periodical Publication, 
 in Prose and Verse. Bristol, 1796. The 
 first number was stated to be " Published 
 by the author, S. T. Coleridge, Bristol, and 
 sold by all the Booksellers and News- 
 carriers in the Town and Country," and 
 
io THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1796. 
 
 the second and following numbers to be 
 " Published by the author, S. T. Cole- 
 ridge, and by Parsons, Paternoster Row, 
 London." Each number bore the motto : 
 " That all may know the truth, and that 
 the truth may make us free." 8vo., 
 pp. 1-324. 
 
 The Watchman was a commercial failure ; it stopped 
 with its tenth number on May 13, 1796, having failed 
 to kindle the political ardour or enthusiasm of the 
 Laodicean inhabitants of Bristowa. It had a very slow 
 and small sale ; and Coleridge, in his " Biographia 
 Literaria " (published twenty years afterwards), records 
 how his maid-servant used the unsold copies to light the 
 fire. It has now, after the lapse of a century, become 
 a rarity. 
 
 The following poems by Coleridge were first pub- 
 lished in The Watchman : 
 
 No. I. March I, 1796. " To a Young Lady." 
 No. II. March 9, 1796. "Ad Lyram." 
 No. III. March 17, 1796. 
 
 " The Hour when we shall meet again." 
 No. IV. March 25, 1796. "Fragments from an 
 
 Unpublished Poem." 
 No. V. April 2, 1796. "Recollections." 
 "To Mercy." 
 ,, „ „ " Count Rumford." 
 
1796.] OF COLERIDGE 11 
 
 No. VI. April 11, 1796. "On Observing a Blossom 
 on the First of February, 1796." 
 
 No. VIII. April 27, 1796. "To a Primrose." 
 
 The last number contained a valedictory address by 
 Coleridge to his readers, ending, " O watchman ! thou 
 hast watched in vain." 
 
 The original Prospectus of The Watchman was re- 
 printed by Mr. J. Dykes Campbell in The Athen&um 
 for December 9, 1893, and again as an Appendix to 
 his "Samuel Taylor Coleridge," 1894, P* 2 ^5- 
 
 Poems on the Death of Priscilla 
 Farmer, by her Grandson, Charles Lloyd. 
 [Motto from Bowles.] Bristol : Printed 
 by N. Biggs, and sold by James Phillips, 
 George Yard, Lombard Street, London, 
 1796. Folio, pp. 27. 
 
 In this pamphlet, which is of the utmost rarity, first 
 appeared Coleridge's "Sonnet" addressed to Charles 
 Lloyd. The contents were republished in the second 
 edition of Coleridge's " Poems," Bristol, 1797. 
 
 Joan of Arc, by Robert Southey. Bristol, 
 1796. Large 4to., pp. 409. 
 
 To this first edition of Southey's first epic, "The 
 Vision of the Maid of Orleans " (republished in 
 "Sibylline Leaves," 1 8 17, p. 281, under the title "The 
 
12 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1796. 
 
 Destiny of Nations "), the notes to which contain an 
 original Greek prize ode on the Slave Trade, was con- 
 tributed to the second book by S. T. C. This portion 
 was omitted in all the later two-volume editions of 
 " Joan of Arc," in which the poem was remodelled by 
 the author. An English verse translation of Coleridge's 
 Greek prize ode appeared among the early minor poems 
 of Robert Southey. 
 
 In the North British Review for January, 1 864, is an 
 article entitled " Bibliomania," which was reprinted 
 with additions in a miscellany called "Odds and Ends," 
 in 1867. In this article was described a copy of the 
 quarto edition of " Joan of Arc," which had formerly 
 belonged to Coleridge, and was, in fact, the identical 
 copy mentioned in a note to the last edition of the 
 " Biographia Literaria," vol. ii., p. 31. This volume is 
 full of Coleridge's annotations, and some hard truths 
 about Southey's early poems were set down with a degree 
 of plain-speaking which, in the words of the writer, 
 " had evidently greatly shocked his own family, who 
 have made an amiable attempt (though happily not a 
 perfectly successful one) to obliterate his just, though 
 unsparing, criticism on their uncle Southey." As a 
 specimen of these criticisms, it may be sufficient to 
 subjoin the following list of abbreviations, which he 
 proposed to use in his marginal notes : 
 
 " N.B. — S. E. means Southey's English, i.e., no 
 English at all. 
 N. means nonsense. 
 J. means discordant jingle of sound — one 
 
I796-] OF COLERIDGE 13 
 
 word rhyming or half rhyming to another, 
 
 proving either utter want of ear, or very 
 
 long ones. 
 L. M., ludicrous metaphor. 
 I. M., incongruous metaphor. 
 S. = pseudo-poetic slang, generally, too, not 
 
 English." 
 
 At the same time, he is not sparing in his comments 
 on himself, for at the long passage beginning *' Maid, 
 beloved of heaven," afterwards reprinted in " The 
 Destiny of Nations," he has written : " These are very 
 fair lines, tho' I say it that should not : but hang me if 
 I know, or ever did know, the meaning of them, tho' 
 my own composition." 
 
 Poems on Various Subjects. By S. T. 
 Coleridge, late of Jesus College, Cam- 
 bridge. 
 
 "Felix curarum, cui non Heliconia cordi 
 Serta, nee imbelles Parnassi e vertice laurus I 
 Sed viget ingenium, et magnos accinctus in usus 
 Fert animus quascumque vices. — Nos tristia vitas 
 Solamur cantu." 
 
 Stat. Silv,, Lib. IV., 4. 
 
 London : Printed for G. G. and J. 
 Robinsons and J. Cottle, Bookseller, Bris- 
 tol, 1796. 8vo., pp. xvi+ 188-r-Errata, 1 p. 
 " The Effusions signed C. L. were written by Mr. 
 
i 4 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1796. 
 
 Charles Lamb, of the India House. Independently 
 of the signature, their superior merit would have suffi- 
 ciently distinguished them. For the rough sketch of 
 Effusion XVI. I am indebted to Mr. Favell ; and the 
 first half of Effusion XV. was written by the author 
 of "Joan of Arc, an epic poem " {Preface, p. xi). 
 
 Pamphlet of Selected Sonnets, from 
 Bowles, Bamfylde, and others. With 
 some original Sonnets by S. T. C, and a 
 prefatory Essay on the Sonnet. [Bristol : 
 Privately printed, 1796, 8vo., pp. 16]. 
 
 A very rare pamphlet, which, considering the sub- 
 sequent fame of its editor, must hold its own place, 
 though perhaps not a very high one, among larger and 
 later sonnet anthologies. 
 
 " I amused myself the other day (having some paper 
 at the printer's that I could employ in no other way) 
 in selecting twenty-eight sonnets to bind up with 
 Bowles's. I charge sixpence for them, and have sent 
 you five to dispose of. I have only printed two hun- 
 dred, as my paper held out to no more, and dispose 
 of them privately, just enough to pay the printing. The 
 Essay which I have written at the beginning I like " 
 (Coleridge to Thomas Poole, Nov. 7, 1796). 
 
 "A pamphlet," says the editor of Coleridge's 
 " Letters " (i. 206, note) " of sixteen pages, containing 
 twenty-eight sonnets by Coleridge, Southey, Lloyd, 
 Lamb, and others, which was printed for private circu- 
 
T797-] OF COLERIDGE 15 
 
 lation towards the close of 1 796, and distributed among 
 a few friends. Of this , selection of Sonnets, which 
 was made ' for the purpose of binding them up with the 
 Sonnets of the Rev. W. L. Bowles,' the sole surviving 
 eopy is now in the Dyce Collection of the South Ken- 
 sington Museum. On the fly-leaf in Coleridge's hand- 
 writing is a presentation note to Mrs. Thelwall. For 
 a full account of this curious and interesting pamphlet 
 see Coleridge's ' Poetical and Dramatic Works,' 4 vols. 
 1877-80, vol. ii., pp. 377-379." 
 
 Ode on the Departing Year. By S. T. 
 Coleridge. [Motto from Mschylus\. Bris- 
 tol : Printed by N. Biggs, and sold by 
 J. Parsons, Paternoster Row, London, 
 1796. 4to., pp. 16. 
 
 This Ode was published on December 31, 1796, in 
 The Cambridge Intelligencer, as well as in a separate 
 form. 
 
 1796-97. 
 
 Contributions in Verse to The Monthly 
 Magazine. 
 
 1. 1796. Sept. " On a late Connubial Rupture." 
 
 2, 1 796. Oct. " Reflections on entering into Active 
 
 Life" — a title which was altered in 1797 to 
 
1 6 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1797. 
 
 " Reflections on having left a Place of Retire- 
 ment." 
 3. 1797. Nov. Three "Sonnets attempted in the 
 
 Manner of Contemporary Writers." Signed, " Nehe- 
 
 miah Higginbottom." 
 
 1797. 
 
 Poems, by S. T. Coleridge. Second Edition. 
 To which are now added Poems by 
 Charles Lamb, and Charles Lloyd. Duplex 
 nobis vinculum, et amicitiae et similium 
 junctarumque Camoenorum; quod utinam 
 neque mors solvat, neque temporis long- 
 inquitas. Groscoll. Epist. ad Car. Utenhov. 
 et Ptol. Lux. Tast. Printed by N. Biggs, 
 for S. Cottle, Bristol, and Messrs. Robin- 
 sons, London, 1797. 8vo., pp. xx + 278. 
 
 " There were inserted in my former edition a few 
 Sonnets of my friend and old school-fellow, Charles 
 Lamb. He has now communicated to me a complete 
 collection of all his Poems. . . . My friend Charles 
 Lloyd has likewise joined me ; and has contributed 
 every poem of his which he deemed worthy of pre- 
 servation. With respect to my own share of the 
 Volume, I have omitted a third of the former Edition, 
 
1798. J OF COLERIDGE 17 
 
 and added almost an equal number. The poems thus 
 added are marked in the Contents by Italics " (Preface, 
 p. xix). 
 
 Lamb's early sonnets (the " ewe-lambs " for which 
 he had pleaded successfully at first) did not escape 
 Coleridge's pruning-knife in the second issue. 
 
 A copy of this edition, with marginal autograph 
 corrections by S. T. C, is in the collection of the late 
 Frederick Locker-Lampson, Esq., and a full account 
 of it is given in Pickering's four-volume Coleridge of 
 
 1877. 
 
 1798. 
 
 Fears in Solitude. Written in 1798, 
 during the alarm of an invasion. To 
 which are added France, an Ode, and 
 Frost at Midnight. By S. T. Cole- 
 ridge. London : Printed for J. Johnson, 
 in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1798. 4to., 
 PP- 2 3- 
 
 The half-title is on the outer leaf, and bears the 
 price, " One Shilling and Sixpence." Of the poems 
 contained in the volume " France " was. first printed in 
 The Morning Post, April 16, 1798, under the title of 
 " Recantation : an Ode," and the other two in this 
 volume. 
 
 2 
 
1 8 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1798. 
 
 Poems, by S. T. Coleridge, Esq. [Colophon], 
 Printed by Law and Gilbert, St. John's 
 Square, London. 8vo., pp. 16. 
 
 The poems contained in this very rare volume, of 
 which there is a copy in the library of the late 
 Frederick Locker-Lampson, Esq., are " Fears in Soli- 
 tude," " France : an Ode," and " Frost at Midnight." 
 It seems to have been privately printed. 
 
 (1) Lyrical Ballads, with a few other 
 Poems. Bristol : Printed by Biggs and 
 Cottle, for T. N. Longman, Paternoster 
 Row, London. 1798. 
 
 (2) Lyrical Ballads, with a few other 
 Poems. London : Printed for J. and A. 
 Arch, Gracechurch Street. 1798. Small 
 8vo. Title, pp. viii -f 210 + Errata, 1 p., 
 followed by a leaf of advertisements. 
 Owing to a rearrangement of the contents, 
 there are two unnumbered pages between 
 pp. 69 and 70. 
 
 The joint work of William Wordsworth and Samuel 
 Taylor Coleridge, published anonymously, and con- 
 taining " The Ancient Mariner," and other poems, by 
 
1 79 8.] OF COLERIDGE 19 
 
 S. T. C, first printed here, the other poems being two 
 scenes from the newly-written and hitherto unpublished 
 tragedy of " Osorio " (under the title of " The 
 Dungeon " and " The Foster Mother's Tale "), and 
 " The Nightingale, a Conversational Poem." Copies 
 of the first (or one-volume) anonymous edition of 
 " Lyrical Ballads," with Joseph Cottle's original 
 Bristol title-page, are of the utmost rarity. In an ex- 
 perience ranging over nearly forty years, I never saw 
 but one copv, containing manuscript additions to " The 
 Ancient Mariner," in the autograph of S. T. C. This 
 was lent by the private owner to the publisher of the 
 four-volume edition of Coleridge, issued in 1877 — th.e 
 late Mr. Basil Montagu Pickering. It was not an un- 
 cut copy, nor did I ever see an uncut copy of the book 
 with the Bristol title-page. Uncut copies, even with 
 the substituted London title-page of Arch, are very 
 rare. The copies distributed by Cottle, either by sale 
 or to the author and his friends or reviewers, must 
 have been very limited in number. The bulk of the 
 edition (? of five hundred copies) which remained un- 
 sold on the publisher's shelves was transferred by 
 Cottle (whose own title-page was cancelled) to Arch 
 in the year of its publication. In the original boards 
 (the Bristol issue being practically introuvable) an uncut 
 copy of Arch's remainder stock is one of the rarest 
 and most desirable of modern volumes of English 
 Verse, which it revolutionized and regenerated more 
 than any other single publication.* 
 
 * There is in the British Museum a copy of the 
 
 2 2 
 
2o THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1798. 
 
 1798-1802. 
 
 Contributions, in Verse and Prose, to The 
 Morning Post, including some of the most 
 brilliant of Coleridge's shorter poems. 
 This list comprises the majority, but does 
 not claim to be exhaustive. 
 
 1798. 
 
 1. Jan. 2. "To the Lord Mayor's Nose," a stanza 
 which was afterwards embodied in the 
 poem called " The Nose." 
 
 " Lyrical Ballads " with the Bristol imprint which 
 formerly belonged to Southey, and contains Coleridge's 
 poem "Lewti," which was at the last moment can- 
 celled, and " The Nightingale, a Conversational Poem," 
 substituted. Mr. R. A. Potts possesses another copy, 
 which contains the substituted leaf, as in ordinary- 
 copies, but also possesses an unique feature in having 
 an extra leaf (recto unnumbered, verso numbered 63*, 
 on which arc printed some lines entitled " Domiciliary 
 Verses, December, 1795." These verses are by 
 neither Wordsworth nor Coleridge, but are the compo- 
 sition of Dr. Beddoes, of Bristol, the father of Thomas 
 Lovell Beddoes, the poet. Cf. The Athenaum for 
 January 14, 1899, No. 3,716. — Ed. 
 
■799-] 
 
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 2. Jan. 8. " Fire, Famine and Slaughter." 
 
 3. March 10. "The Raven." When originally 
 
 printed this poem had no title, but merely an 
 introductory letter. The title which it now 
 bears was given to it when published in 
 "The Annual Anthology, " 1800. 
 
 4. April 13. "Lewti ; or, the Circassian Love 
 
 Chaunt," signed "Nicias Erythraius." 
 
 5. April 16. " The Recantation : an Ode." 
 
 Shortly afterwards published in a quarto 
 pamphlet (see p. 17) under the title of 
 " France : an Ode," under which title it was 
 again reprinted in The Morning Post, 
 October 14, 1802, together with some ex- 
 tracts from "Fears in Solitude." 
 
 6. July 30. " A Tale," afterwards called " Recanta- 
 
 tion illustrated in the Story of the Mad 
 Ox." 
 
 1799. 
 
 1. Aug. 17. "Names." 
 
 2. Aug. 24 (?). " The British Stripling's War Song," 
 
 reprinted in ** The Annual Anthology," 
 1800. 
 
 3. Sept. 6. "The Devil's Thoughts." The first 
 
 three and the ninth stanzas were by Southey. 
 
 4. Sept. 7. " On a Reader of his own Verses." 
 
 5. Sept. 17. "Lines written in the Album at 
 
 Elbingerode." 
 
22 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1800. 
 
 6. Sept. 23. An Epigram (" Jem writes his Verses "). 
 
 7. Sept. 24. " Lines composed in a Concert- 
 
 Room." 
 
 8. Nov. 14. An Epigram (" Dives can find no Taste 
 
 in Tea"). 
 
 9. Nov. 16. An Epigram ("Jack drinks fine 
 
 Wines "). 
 io. Dec. 12. An Epigram ("What ? rise again"). 
 
 11. Dec. 21. "Introduction to the Tale of the 
 
 Dark Ladie," of which the greater part was 
 republished in the " Lyrical Ballads " of 1 800, 
 under the title of " Love." 
 
 12. Dec. 24. "Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of 
 
 Devonshire." 
 
 13. Dec. 25. "A Christmas Carol." 
 
 1800. 
 
 1. Jan. 10. "Talleyrand to Lord Granville." 
 
 2. Jan. 24. "To Mr. Pye." 
 
 3. Dec. 4. "The Two Round Spaces: a Skel- 
 
 toniad." 
 
 l8oi. 
 
 1. Sept. 15. " On Revisiting the Sea-Shore." 
 
 2. Sept. 18. "Song to be sung by the Lovers of 
 
 Ale." 
 
 3. Sept. 22. " Epitaph on a Bad Man." 
 
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 4.. Sept. 25. " Drinking versus Thinking." 
 
 5. Sept. 26. "The Devil Outwitted." 
 
 6. Sept. 26. " Job's Luck." 
 
 7. Sept. 27. " A Hint to Premiers and First Con- 
 
 suls." 
 
 " Ode to Tranquillity." 
 "To a certain modern Narcissus." 
 " To a Critic." 
 " Always Audible." 
 " Pondere non Numero." 
 An Epigram (" To wed a Fool "). 
 
 8. 
 
 Dec. 
 
 4- 
 
 9- 
 
 Dec. 
 
 16. 
 
 10. 
 
 Dec. 
 
 16. 
 
 1 1. 
 
 Dec. 
 
 ■9- 
 
 12. 
 
 Dec. 
 
 26. 
 
 13- 
 
 Dec. 
 
 26. 
 
 1802. 
 
 1. Sept. 6. "The Picture; or, the Lover's Reso- 
 
 lution." 
 
 2. Sept. 11. " Chamouni, the Hour before Sun- 
 
 rise." 
 
 3. Sept. 17. " The Keepsake." 
 
 4. Sept. 23. Eight Epigrams (J. D. Campbell's 
 
 edition of " Poems," pp. 447, 448). 
 
 5. Sept. 23. An Epigram ("The Good, Great 
 
 Man "). 
 
 6. Sept. 24. " Inscription on a Jutting Stone over 
 
 a Spring." 
 
 7. Oct. (?). " Ode to the Rain." 
 
 8. Oct. 2. Three Epigrams (J. D. Campbell's 
 
 edition of " Poems," p. 448). 
 
 9. Oct. 4. "Dejection: an Ode." 
 
24 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1802. 
 
 10. Oct. 9. "Epitaph on a Mercenary Miser." 
 
 11. Oct. 11. " A Dialogue between an Author and 
 
 his Friend." 
 
 12. Oct. 11. " Miopocro(j>La, or Wisdom in Folly." 
 
 13. Oct. 11. Epigram ("Each Bond Street Buck"). 
 
 14. Oct. 11. "From an Old German Poet." 
 
 15. Oct. 11. "On the curious circumstance, that 
 
 in the German language the Sun is feminine, 
 and the Moon masculine." 
 
 16. Oct. 11. "Spots in the Sun." 
 
 17. Oct. 11. Epigram (" When Surface Talks "). 
 
 18. Oct. 11. "To my Candle — the Favourite 
 
 Epigram." 
 
 19. Oct. 16. " The Language of Birds." 
 
 20. Oct. 19. " The Day Dream. From an Emi- 
 
 grant to his absent Wife." 
 
 Among the more important pieces in prose con- 
 tributed by Coleridge to The Morning Post, was a speech 
 delivered in the House of Commons by William Pitt, 
 which appeared in the number for February 1 8, 1800. 
 The greater part of this speech was composed by Cole- 
 ridge from his recollections of Mr. Pitt's oratory, and 
 was characterized by Canning as doing more honour 
 to the author's head than to his memory. It was 
 followed by the character of Pitt, which was published 
 in the number for March 19, 1800. Both are reprinted 
 by Gillman in his "Life of Coleridge," pp. 195 208. 
 
 These contributions are generally signed " Esteesi " 
 (a sort of Greek anagram of S. T. C, signifying " he 
 hath stood," or " maintained ") ; but in two cases the 
 
i8o2.] OF COLERIDGE 25 
 
 signature of " Nicias Erythrzeus " is appended to his 
 original verse contributions, which signature, affixed 
 to an afterwards acknowledged poem, enables us to 
 identify as Coleridge's composition a long narrative in 
 verse, entitled " The Old Man of the Alps," forgotten 
 or unacknowledged by the author.* Many of the 
 poems, as originally published in The Morning Post, 
 contain splendid lines and passages, afterwards omitted 
 in the collection entitled " Sibylline Leaves." An 
 incomplete set of The Morning Post of that period is 
 among the " London Newspapers " in the Library of 
 the British Museum. 
 
 The important period between 1790 and 1800 is, 
 unfortunately, only represented by a few odd numbers, 
 and, owing to this deficiency, the editor is unable to 
 locate a poem concerning which Coleridge wrote in 
 a letter to W. -Sotheby, August 26, 1802 ("Letters," 
 p. 397) : " I wrote twelve lines at nineteen, and pub- 
 lished them many years ago in The Morning Post, as a 
 fragment — 
 
 " Upon a mouldering Abbey's broadest wall," etc. 
 
 This poem, under the title of " Melancholy," and 
 beginning 
 
 " Stretch'd on a moulder'd Abbey's broadest wall," 
 
 * This poem is not entered in the list, as it was not 
 acknowledged by Coleridge, nor is it included by Mr. 
 Dykes Campbell in his exhaustive edition. Its attri- 
 bution to Coleridge must therefore be considered doubt- 
 ful.— Ed. 
 
26 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1799 
 
 was republished in "Sibylline Leaves," 1 817, p. 262, 
 with a note by Coleridge, saying it was " first pub- 
 lished in The Morning Chronicle in the year 1794." 
 Mr. Dykes Campbell, who has of course included the 
 poem in his edition of the P. W., p. 34, says in a note 
 (p. 573) that he has searched The Morning Chronicle of 
 1794 for the verses, but without success. This is not 
 surprising, if they were first published in The Morning 
 Post, Coleridge had evidently forgotten in 1 8 17 what 
 he had written in 1802. The poem is conjecturally 
 dated by Mr. Campbell 1794, but was apparently 
 written 1791-92. 
 
 1799-180O. 
 
 The Annual Anthology. Bristol : Printed 
 by Biggs and Co., 1799-1800. ■ 2 vols. 
 Vol. i. : title, advertisement, 1 leaf, 2 un- 
 numbered leaves of contents, pp. 300 ; 
 vol. ii. : title, 2 unnumbered leaves of con- 
 tents, pp. 299. 8vo. 
 
 Containing, besides a number of pieces by Robert 
 Southey and a blank-verse production of Charles 
 Lamb, a series of poems 'by S. T. C, some of which 
 had appeared in The Morning Post, whilst others were 
 published for the first time. These volumes, in boards 
 especially, are a desideratum- for collectors, forming, 
 
1800.] OF COLERIDGE 27 
 
 as they do, the editie princeps of some of the best of 
 Coleridge's minor poems, of which the following 
 originally appeared in this collection : 
 
 1800. 
 
 "To a Young Lady " (Miss Lavinia Poole), p. 32. 
 
 " To a Friend who had declared his intention of 
 writing no more poetry," p. 103. 
 
 "This Lime Tree Bower My Prison," a poem 
 addressed to " Charles Lamb, of the India House, 
 London," p. 14.0. 
 
 " Something Childish, but very Natural," signed 
 " Cordomi," p. 192. 
 
 " Home-sick," signed " Cordomi," p. 193. 
 
 Epigrams. 
 
 I. " O would the Baptist come again," p. 267. 
 II. "I hold of all our Viperous Race," p. 267. 
 IV. " If the guilt of all lying consists in deceit," 
 
 p. 268. 
 VI. " As Dick and I at Charing Cross were 
 
 walking," p. 269. 
 VII. "Thy Babes ne'er greet thee with the 
 
 Father's name," p. 269. 
 VIII. " Hippona lets no silly flush," p. 269. 
 
 IX. "Thy lap-dog, Rufa, is a dainty beast," 
 p. 270. 
 
 XIII. " Swans sing before they die — 'twere no bad 
 
 thing," p. 271. 
 
 XIV. " A joke (cries Jack) without a sting," p. 271. 
 
28 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1800. 
 
 1800. 
 
 General Title. 
 
 [Issued with " The Death of Wallenstein."] 
 Wallenstein. A Drama in Two Parts. 
 Translated from the German of Frederick 
 Schiller by S. T. Coleridge. London : 
 Printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 
 Paternoster Row, by G. Woodfall, No. 22, 
 Paternoster Row, 1800. 
 
 Separate Titles. 
 
 The Piccolomini, or the First Part of 
 Wallenstein, a Drama in five acts. Tran- 
 slated from the German of Frederick 
 Schiller by S. T. Coleridge. London : 
 Printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 
 Paternoster Row, 1800. 8vo., half-title, 
 title, pp. iv + 214. 
 
 The Death of Wallenstein. A Tragedy 
 in five acts. Translated from the German 
 of Frederick Schiller by S. T. Coleridge. 
 London : Printed for T. N. Longman 
 
1800.] OF COLERIDGE 29 
 
 and O. Rees, Paternoster Row, by G. 
 Woodfall, No. 22, Paternoster-Row, 1800. 
 8vo., general and special titles, two un- 
 paged leaves, pp. 157, with an engraved 
 portrait of Wallenstein. 
 
 This translation of "Wallenstein" — not reprinted 
 until 1828, when the "Poetical and Dramatic Works 
 of Coleridge " w a, e first collected and published by 
 William Pickering — had, in less than a quarter of a 
 century, become so difficult to procure, that Carlyle, 
 when writing his " Life of Schiller," in 1823-1824, was 
 unable to find or see a copy. Since its republication 
 in 1828, and on several subsequent occasions, in the 
 Pickering and Moxon editions, the original issue has 
 become comparatively easy to obtain, and can hardly, 
 of later years, take rank as a specially or exceptionally 
 rare book. Before its tardy reappearance, and when 
 it was practically unprocurable, another translation (by 
 George Moir, a Scottish advocate and early acquaint- 
 ance of Carlyle), not without merit, but inferior to 
 that of Coleridge, was published at Edinburgh. Charles 
 Lamb contributed a metrical version of Thekla's song 
 to the original edition of Coleridge's translation of 
 " Wallenstein." 
 
 A third volume, containing a translation by S. T. C. 
 of " Wallenstein's Camp," was announced among the 
 advertisements, but was apparently never executed or 
 published. 
 
30 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1800. 
 
 Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems, in 
 Two Volumes. By W. Wordsworth. 
 Quam nihil ad genium, Papiniane, tuum. 
 Printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 
 Paternoster Row, by Biggs and Co., Bristol, 
 1800. Vol. i. : pp. xlvi+210, and 3 un- 
 numbered leaves of " Notes." Vol. ii. : 
 1 unnumbered leaf of Contents + pp. 227, 
 with Errata on reverse. 
 
 In the first volume reappeared " The Ancient 
 Mariner," in a revised version, and the other poems 
 already enumerated ; to the new second volume, now 
 published for the first time, Coleridge contributed the 
 poem entitled " Love," a portion of the " Ballad of the 
 Dark Ladie," which had then recently appeared in 
 The Morning Tost. These five poems (with some slight 
 modifications in the longest and most important of 
 them) continued to appear, for the third and fourth 
 time, in the later two-volume editions of "Lyrical 
 Ballads," published in 1802 and 1805 respectively; 
 but with no other indication of Coleridge's name or 
 authorship than that they were contributions from a 
 friend. The name of Coleridge was not, for many 
 years afterwards, associated with his earliest masterpiece 
 in verse. Coleridge contributed the introductory stanza 
 to Wordsworf h's poem of " We are Seven," which the 
 author had commenced with the narrative portion. 
 
i803.] OF COLERIDGE 31 
 
 On the other hand, it appears that Wordsworth contri- 
 buted a few lines to "The Ancient Mariner," which 
 was originally intended to be a joint production of the 
 two friends j but their styles did not assimilate, and the 
 scheme of partnership was abandoned. Owing to the 
 obloquy and abuse heaped upon Wordsworth's new 
 " Poems in two Volumes," published in 1807, no new 
 edition of "Lyrical Ballads" was called for for ten 
 years after that of 1805 ; and when Wordsworth, after 
 the publication of the quarto " Excursion," collected 
 his own minor poems in i8i5,he discarded Coleridge's 
 contributions. It was not until 1817 that Coleridge, 
 in his w Sibylline Leaves," at last published " The 
 Ancient Mariner" as his own. No edition of it had 
 then appeared, even anonymously, for twelve years. 
 
 1803. 
 
 Poems by S. T. Coleridge. [Motto from 
 Statins^ as in First Edition of 1796.] 
 Third Edition. London : Printed by 
 N. Biggs, Crane Court, Fleet Street, for 
 T. N. Longman and O. Rees, Paternoster 
 Row, 1803. i2mo., pp. xi + 202. 
 
 Substantially a reprint, with a few omissions and 
 modifications (but without additions), and without the 
 contributions of Charles Lamb and Charles Lloyd, of 
 the juvenile and abortive attempts of Coleridge's Muse, 
 
32 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1803. 
 
 of which the second edition had been published by 
 Cottle, at Bristol, in 1 797. That Coleridge should have 
 cared to send forth these immature and comparatively 
 worthless productions to the world for a third time as 
 his "Poems," in 1803, when he might have issued, 
 under that title, not only his " Ancient Mariner," but 
 his " Christabel," and the finest of his shorter poems 
 from The Morning Post, reveals, significantly enough, 
 the state of inertia, apathy, and supineness into which 
 the use of the fatal drug he had resorted to had thrown 
 him. In 1803 he was so ill and prostrate that he was 
 compelled to abandon, after proceeding with them only 
 for the earlier portion of the way, a tour in Scotland, 
 on which he had started with Wordsworth and his 
 sister Dorothy ; and returning home in weariness of 
 heart and body, via Edinburgh, where he wrote a dole- 
 ful epitaph at an inn in a quasi-moribund state, he 
 made his way back to Keswick as best he could. 
 Charles Lamb saw this edition through the press during 
 the author's absence in the Lake district. That so 
 subtle and delicate a critic and so loyal a friend as 
 Lamb (intimately acquainted with the exquisite verse 
 printed by Coleridge during the latest years of the 
 eighteenth and the earliest years of the nineteenth 
 centuries, and with the unprinted manuscript fragment 
 of "Christabel," produced in 1797 and 1800) should 
 not only have sanctioned, but encouraged and abetted 
 such a proceeding, would be altogether unaccountable, 
 except on the following score. The volume of 1797 
 having become the property of Longman's house when 
 
1803.] OF COLERIDGE 33 
 
 Cottle's copyrights and stock were transferred and dis- 
 posed of, there was a demand for a new edition (the 
 old one having gradually gone out of print), which the 
 house — already connected otherwise both with Cole- 
 ridge and Wordsworth — issued as a routine trade matter. 
 Having decided upon that course, it was as well that the 
 book should reappear with the advantage of the author's 
 superintendence, or, in his absence, with that of some 
 trusted and competent literary friend. Though Long- 
 man's loss in suppressing it might have been small, it 
 was one item among others in an extensive and miscel- 
 laneous business; and neither Coleridge nor Lamb was 
 probably in a position, in 1803, to offer them even that 
 slight pecuniary compensation. The blame rests rather 
 with Coleridge himself, who might have made overtures 
 and proposals Lamb was not prepared or authorized to 
 make, which could hardly have been rejected, and 
 which must, if accepted, even at that low ebb-tide of 
 English poetry, have been advantageous to both parties. 
 Had Coleridge taken this opportunity of collecting his 
 best poems (including his two great masterpieces) in 
 the earlier years of the nineteenth century, and left 
 his juvenile balderdash to be sought after, in the two 
 Bristol editions, by those whom it might further' con- 
 cern, the satire of Byron in "English Bards" could 
 hardly have been penned, or would have fallen scathe- 
 less. That satire was directed against Coleridge's only 
 acknowledged poems — against a volume of juvenile 
 verse, no worse, though perhaps no better, than Byron's 
 own " Hours of Idleness." Coleridge had produced 
 
 3 
 
34 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1801- 
 
 and published, in his twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth 
 years, verses as bad as those which Byron had written 
 and published while still in his minority. But Byron 
 did not, at least, commit the error of continuing to 
 republish his abortive productions as the sole offspring 
 of his Muse after that fledgeling Muse had gained her 
 wings for flight ; whereas Coleridge deliberately and 
 contemptuously, as it were, flung again to the world, at 
 thirty, the scraps and orts of his ill-furnished youthful 
 table, when he could have set before it a Lucullian 
 repast. 
 
 l80I. 
 
 Memoirs of the late Mrs. Robinson, 
 written by herself, with some posthumous 
 pieces. In four volumes. Vol. IV. 
 London : Printed by T. Gillet, Salisbury 
 Square, for R. Phillips, 71, St. Paul's. 
 Sold by T. Hurst, Paternoster Row, and 
 by Messrs. Carpenter, Old Bond Street. 
 1 801. 8vo., pp. iv+ 196. 
 
 On page 141 of this volume is a poem called "A 
 Stranger Minstrel. By S. T. Colridge (sic) Esq. 
 Written to Mrs. Robinson a few weeks before her 
 death." It was republished amongst the preliminary 
 matter prefixed to the " Poetical Works of Mary 
 Robinson," 4 vols., 1806 (I., xlvii), but not included 
 
1 802.] OF COLERIDGE 3$ 
 
 in any of the collected volumes or editions of his 
 poems published during Coleridge's lifetime. It was 
 first included in the late Mr. Basil Montagu Pickering's 
 four-volume edition of Coleridge, published in 1877. 
 
 The unfortunate "Perdita" (Mary Robinson) had 
 visited the Lake district in 1 800, had become acquainted 
 with Coleridge — already a resident there — and had 
 written some verses on the birth (which took place in 
 that year) of his second son, Derwent. 
 
 1802. 
 
 "To Matilda Beth am, from a Stranger." 
 Keswick, September 9, 1802. 
 
 Unknown to the editor of Mr. Pickering's four- 
 volume edition when it was issued m 1877. These 
 blank-verse lines occur in a privately printed Auto- 
 biographical Sketch of Matilda Betham, of which a 
 copy is preserved in a volume of the Forster pamphlets 
 at South Kensington.* The poem was quoted in 
 extenso in the letter from Mr. J. Dykes Campbell 
 communicating his discovery of it to the tAthen&um, 
 March 15, 1890, and appears in his one-volume edition 
 of Coleridge's "Poetical Works," 1893, pp. 167, 168. 
 
 * These pamphlets are contained in 602 volumes, 
 and the sketch of Matilda Betham is included in vol. i. 
 Coleridge's verses occupy pp. 9-12. — Ed. 
 
 3—2 
 
36 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1804- 
 
 1804. 
 The Wild Wreath. Edited by M. E. 
 
 Robinson. London : Printed for Richard 
 
 Phillips, 7, St. Paul's Churchyard. 1804. 
 
 pp. viii + 228. 
 
 Mary Elizabeth Robinson, who edited this volume 
 after her mother's death, was the daughter of the 
 unfortunate Mary Robinson referred to in a previous 
 entry. It contains an original contribution by S. T. C, 
 a poem entitled "The Mad Monk" (p. 142), not 
 included in any volume or edition of his poems pub- 
 lished during his- lifetime. It was first included in the 
 Supplement to Pickering's four-volume edition of Cole- 
 ridge, as reissued by Macmillan and Co. in 1880. 
 This Supplement, though prepared and printed during 
 the latest year of Mr. Pickering's Life (1877), did not 
 appear in any of the original copies issued with his 
 title-page. 
 
 1807-181 I. 
 
 Contributions in Prose and Verse to The 
 Courier, a London newspaper, signed 
 " Esteesi," or Siesti. 
 
 1. 1807. Dec. 10. " To Two Sisters." 
 
 2. 181 1. Aug, 30. "The Virgin's Cradle-Hymn." 
 In addition to these poetical pieces, Coleridge wrote 
 
 for The Courier a series of letters " On the Spaniards," 
 
i8io.] OF COLERIDGE 37 
 
 of which No. I. appeared on December 7, 18.09, and 
 No. VIII. and last on Jan. 20, 1810. These letters 
 were reprinted in " Essays on his own Times," pp. 593- 
 676. In 181 1 he became more intimately connected 
 with The Courier^ and contributed a series of articles, 
 beginning with April 19, and ending with September 27, 
 which were also reprinted in the " Essays," pp. 733-938. 
 A set of The Courier is among the "London News- 
 papers" in the Library of the British Museum. 
 
 1808. 
 To The Edinburgh Review of July, 1808 
 (then under the editorship of Jeffrey) 
 S. T. C. contributed an article (never re- 
 printed) on Clarkson's " History of the 
 Abolition of the Slave Trade." 
 
 This was his sole contribution to The Edinburgh 
 Review, and he appears to have received twenty 
 guineas for it. The article, before its publication, 
 underwent some alteration (not very acceptable to its 
 author) at the hands of the Editor of the Review. 
 
 1809-18 IO. 
 The Friend : A Literary, Moral and 
 Political Weekly Paper, excluding Per- 
 sonal and Party Politics and Events of the 
 
38 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1810- 
 
 Day. Conducted by S. T. Coleridge, of 
 Grasmere, Westmoreland. Each number 
 will contain a stamped sheet of large 
 Octavo, like the present ; and will be 
 delivered free of expense by the post 
 throughout the Kingdom, to Subscribers. 
 The Price each number One Shilling . . . 
 Penrith : Printed and Published by J. 
 Brown. 8vo., 1809, 18 10. 
 
 A periodical publication, issued by subscription at 
 irregular intervals during Coleridge's second and last 
 residence in the Lake district. The first number 
 appeared on June I, 1809, and the twenty-seventh and 
 last on March 15, 18 10. 
 
 Wordsworth was an occasional contributor to The 
 Friend, in which a specimen or two appeared of his 
 then unpublished poem " The Prelude," and a prose 
 " Essay on Epitaphs," with some verse translations from 
 the Italian epitaphs of Chiabrera ; but the larger 
 portion was written by Coleridge himself. The original 
 manuscript, or printer's " copy," of The Friend (not 
 mainly in Coleridge's autograph) is preserved in the 
 Forster Collection at South Kensington, the loose 
 leaves elegantly and handsomely bound in a goodly 
 tome.* In 1 8 1 2 Coleridge prepared a supplement, with 
 
 * Much of the MS. is in the handwriting of Miss 
 Sarah Hutchinson, Mrs. Wordsworth's sister. 
 
i8ia.] OF COLERIDGE 39 
 
 which the remaining stock of unsold numbers were 
 issued in a single volume by Gale and Curtis of Pater- 
 noster Row. In 1 8 1 8 The Friend, somewhat re- 
 modelled, was reissued by a London publisher, with 
 the addition of a third volume, containing entirely new 
 matter. The original numbers, as issued to subscribers, 
 have long been scarce. 
 
 Besides a large number of prose contributions, of 
 which the most important were the unfinished " Sketches 
 and Fragments of the Life and Character of the late 
 Sir Alexander Ball," the following poems by Coleridge 
 first appeared in this periodical : 
 
 1. 1809. Sept. 21 (No. VI.). " The Three Graves," 
 Parts III. and IV. 
 
 z. 1809. Nov. 12 (No. XIII.). " Epitaph on Him- 
 self." 
 
 3. 1809. Nov. 23 (No. XIV.). "A Tombless 
 Epitaph." 
 
 I8l2. 
 
 Omniana,or Hor^e Otiosiores. By Robert 
 Southey. London, 1 8 1 2 : Printed for 
 Gale and Curtis, Paternoster Row. 2 vols., 
 i2mo. Vol. i., pp. ix + 336; vol. ii., 
 pp. vi+330. 
 
 With extensive contributions (consisting of prose 
 maxims and short essays) by S. T. C, the authorship 
 
4 o THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1813. 
 
 of which is distinguished in the Contents by a mark or 
 asterisk.* 
 
 1813. 
 
 Remorse : A Tragedy, in Five Acts. By 
 S. T. Coleridge. 
 
 Remorse is as the heart in which it grows : 
 If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews 
 Of true repentance ; but if proud and gloomy, 
 Tt is a poison-tree, that, pierced to the inmost, 
 Weeps only tears of poison. 
 
 Act I., Scene i. 
 
 London : Printed for W. Pople, 67, 
 Chancery Lane, 18 13. Price Three Shil- 
 lings. 8vo., pp. xii + 72. 
 
 The prologue was written by Charles Lamb, and 
 the epilogue by Coleridge himself. The latter was not 
 published with the play, but has been rescued from a 
 newspaper of the time.t The Author's preface to the 
 
 * In the Library of the British Museum is a copy 
 containing numerous marginal annotations in Coleridge's 
 autograph. It was formerly in the possession of James 
 Gillman, and each volume contains his book-plate. 
 
 f The Morning Chronicle for January 28, 1813. It 
 was first reprinted in Mr. Pearson's edition of " Osorio," 
 in 1873, and afterwards in the third volume of Mr. 
 Pickering's four-volume edition of Coleridge, in 1877. 
 
1 8 1 3-] OF COLERIDGE 41 
 
 first edition contains a long passage omitted in the later 
 editions. A second and third edition, somewhat modi- 
 fied (8vo,, pp. x+78), were issued by the same pub- 
 lisher in the same year. After that there was no 
 reprint of the play for fifteen years, when it was 
 included in William Pickering's collected edition of 
 1828, and in all subsequent editions of Coleridge's 
 " Dramatic Works." 
 
 This tragedy (produced at Drury Lane in 1813 with 
 some success) was remodelled from " Osorio," written 
 in 1797, when it was offered to and rejected by 
 Sheridan. A fair stage-copy of the original " Osorio " 
 (not in the author's autograph, but in that of a pro- 
 fessional copyist) was purchased in 1873, and published 
 in the same year, by Mr. John Pearson, of York Street, 
 Covent Garden, with an introduction, copious annota- 
 tions, and an appendix supplied by the editor of 
 "Tennysoniana." It was found to contain at the opening 
 of the fourth act the lines ridiculed by Sheridan, which 
 Coleridge had, not very ingenuously, repudiated or dis- 
 avowed in the preface to " Remorse." Two short 
 specimens of "Osorio" were printed in 1798-1805, in 
 the successive editions of "Lyrical Ballads," and the 
 original preface intended to appear with it, had it been 
 acted and published at the time of its composition, was 
 preserved by Mr. Clement Carlyon (who had obtained 
 the manuscript from Coleridge when a fellow-student 
 in Germany in 1799) in the first volume of his " Recol- 
 lections of Early and Late Years," published after 
 Coleridge's death in 1836. "Remorse" was acted 
 
42 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1814- 
 
 apparently at Calne and Devizes, in the summer of 
 1 81 5, by a travelling theatrical company, but after that 
 date there is no record of its production on the stage, 
 either in London or in the provinces. In 1884, how- 
 ever, a Mr. Philip Beck gave a reading, or recitation, 
 of the tragedy in London. 
 
 That Byron thought highly of this tragedy is proved 
 by the following extract from a letter which he wrote 
 to Coleridge on March 31, 181 5 : "We have had 
 nothing to be mentioned in the same breath with 
 ' Remorse ' for very many years, and I should think 
 that the reception of that play was sufficient to en- 
 courage the highest hopes of author and audience " 
 (see Moore's "Life of Byron," Murray, 1838, p. 278). 
 
 1814. 
 
 Essays on the Fine Arts. By S. T. C. 
 
 Published in Felix Farley's Bristol Journal, August- 
 September, 1 8 14. Written to serve Washington 
 Allston, who was then exhibiting his pictures at Bristol. 
 Coleridge himself " set a high value" on these essays 
 (see Table-Talk of January 1, 1834). 
 
 They were reprinted by Cottle in his " Early Recol- 
 lections," 1837, ii. 201-240. 
 
 1815. 
 
 Contribution to the Gentleman's Magazine. 
 Nov., 181 5. " Farewell to Love." 
 
i8i6.] OF COLERIDGE 43 
 
 1816. 
 Christabel ; Kubla Khan, a Vision ; 
 The Pains of Sleep. By S. T. Coleridge, 
 Esq. London : Printed for John Murray, 
 Albemarle Street, by William Bulmer and 
 Co., Cleveland Row, St. James's, 18 16. 
 8vo., pp. vii (including half-title and title- 
 page) + 64, followed by four pages of adver- 
 tisements of books published by John 
 Murray. 
 
 The first and second parts of "Christabel" (which 
 was never finished by the author, but remains a frag- 
 ment) were written respectively in 1797 and 1800, and 
 handed about in manuscript, among a small band of 
 friends and admirers, for fifteen years or more before 
 publication. 
 
 Murray appears to have undertaken the work at 
 Byron's recommendation ; it passed rapidly through 
 several editions, which underwent some slight verbal 
 alterations ; e.g., a couplet that originally stood — 
 Sir Leoline, the Baron, which 
 Hath a toothless mastiff bitch, 
 was afterwards changed to — 
 
 Sir Leoline, the Baron rich, 
 Hath a toothless mastiff bitch, 
 which Charles Lamb playfully suggested might as 
 appropriately read — 
 
44 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY |"i8i6. 
 
 Sir Leoline, the Baron round, 
 Hath a toothless mastiff hound. 
 In a review of " Christabel " in The Examiner 
 (written probably by William Hazlitt) a suppressed or 
 cancelled line, of much importance to the sense, and 
 rhyming with a previous line which, in the published 
 version, is left unrhymed, is supplied in the following 
 passage : 
 
 Behold her bosom and half her side, 
 Hideous, deform' d, and pale of hue, — 
 A sight to dream of, not to tell — 
 And she is to sleep by Christabel. 
 
 The italicized line (left in the published version to the 
 imagination, or hinted rather than expressed) had 
 evidently appeared in the manuscript copy that had 
 fallen in the writer's way.* These manuscript copies, 
 gradually multiplied by enthusiastic friends, doubtless 
 offered a considerable number of verbal references and 
 various readings. Mr. Payne Collier, in the preface 
 to his " Notes on Coleridge's Lectures on Shakespeare," 
 also supplied a few suppressed lines, not of equal 
 importance, but of indubitable authenticity, as they 
 were derived from a manuscript copy of the poem in 
 the handwriting of Sarah Stoddart (afterwards the wife 
 of Hazlitt) which had come into Mr. Collier's posses- 
 sion, and which, through the courtesy of the purchaser, 
 I had an opportunity of inspecting. It did not contain 
 
 * Unfortunately, this discovery was made too late 
 for the editor to avail himself of it in Mr. Pickering's 
 four-volume Coleridge. 
 
i8i6.] OF COLERIDGE 45 
 
 the line given in The Examiner; but Hazlitt probably 
 possessed an independent copy, and Sarah Stoddart's 
 copy (which happened to have been preserved) was 
 made long before she became his wife. Charles Lamb 
 also possessed an imperfect copy, which, in one of his 
 published letters, he begs Coleridge to complete. De 
 Quincey doubtless possessed a like treasure, and probably 
 Wordsworth and Southey, and some half-score of other 
 persons, though the majority of such transcripts would 
 presumably be destroyed after the publication of the 
 poem. 
 
 The Statesman's Manual ; or, the Bible 
 the Best Guide to Political Skill and Fore- 
 sight : A Lay Sermon, addressed to the 
 Higher Classes of Society, with an Appen- 
 dix, containing Comments and Essays con- 
 nected with the Study of the Inspired 
 Writings. By S. T. Coleridge, Esq. " Ad 
 ist hasc quasso vos, qualia cunque primo 
 videantur aspectu, adtendite, ut qui vobis 
 forsan insanire videar, saltern quibus in- 
 saniam rationibus cognoscatis." London : 
 Printed for Gale and Fenner, Pater-Noster 
 Row ; J. M. Richardson, Royal Exchange ; 
 and Hatchard, Piccadilly. 18 16.. 8vo., 
 pp. 65, and Appendix, pp. xlvii. 
 
46 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1817. 
 
 Generally known as " The first Lay Sermon," from 
 having been advertised as " A Lay Sermon on the 
 Distresses of the Country, addressed to the Middle and 
 Higher Orders." 
 
 On the back wrapper is advertised " A Second Lay 
 Sermon," and "Also (Printed in a Cheap Form for 
 Distribution) A Third Lay Sermon, addressed to the 
 Lower and Labouring Classes of Society. ' The Poor 
 have the Gospel preached unto them.' 
 
 " ■%* The three Tracts (which the above with the 
 present will form) will also be printed so as to make 
 one uniform Volume." The last of these tracts was, 
 however, never published. 
 
 1817. 
 
 Zapolya : A Christmas Tale, in Two 
 Parts : The Prelude, entitled " The Usur- 
 per's Fortune " ; and the Sequel, entitled 
 " The Usurper's Fate." By S. T. Coleridge, 
 Esq. London : Printed for Rest Fenner, 
 Paternoster Row, 18 17. 8vo., pp. viii 
 (unnumbered, including half-title, title- 
 page, " Advertisement," and " Charac- 
 ters ")+ 128. 
 
 In spite of its dramatic form, this piece never 
 appeared on the stage, though written originally with 
 that view. 
 
1 8 17.] OF COLERIDGE 47 
 
 A Hebrew Dirge, chaunted in the Great 
 Synagogue, St. James's Place, Aldgate, on 
 the Day of the Funeral of Her Royal 
 Highness the Princess Charlotte. By 
 Hyman Hurwitz, Master of the Hebrew 
 Academy, Highgate. With a translation 
 by S. T. Coleridge, Esq. London: Printed 
 by H. Barnett, 2, St. James's Place, Aid- 
 gate, and sold by T. Boosey, 4, Old 
 Broad Street, 1817. Thin pamphlet, 
 Hebrew and English text, vis-a-vis, issued 
 in thin brown-paper covers, the title, " A 
 Hebrew Dirge," being given in Hebrew 
 and English, which is repeated on an inner 
 leaf. 8vo, pp. 13.* 
 
 The title of "Israel's Lament," by which it is best 
 known, is printed as a heading to the first page of 
 text. Reprinted for the first time in the one-volume 
 edition of Coleridge's " Poetical Works," edited by 
 Derwent and Sara Coleridge (Edward Moxon, 1852). 
 There is another Hebrew dirge, " The Tears of a 
 Grateful People " (1820), on the death of George HI., 
 by Hyman Hurwitz, of which the English version 
 
 * A copy of the pamphlet is in the Oriental Depart- 
 ment at the British Museum. 
 
48 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1817- 
 
 (though not bearing his name, as in the former case) 
 has, with some show of likelihood, both of external 
 and of internal evidence, been attributed to the 
 hand of Coleridge (see a letter of W. B. Scott in The 
 Athemeum). There exists in the British Museum 
 Library an English version of this latter by another 
 hand, not that of Coleridge. The earlier pamphlet of 
 1 817, bearing Coleridge's name on the title-page, is of 
 the utmost rarity. I bought a copy at a dingy old 
 bookstall in Gray's Inn Lane, for a few pence, in 1876; 
 and the late Mr. B. M. Pickering gave me five guineas 
 for it. Hyman Hurwitz was the author of several 
 Hebrew books, grammars, etc. He resided at High- 
 gate during the earlier years of Coleridge's residence 
 with the Gillmans, and S. T. C. studied Hebrew under 
 his auspices and guidance. He appears to have been 
 a remarkable and superior man in his way, worthy 
 probably of some record and remembrance even from 
 the hand of so distinguished a person as his illustrious 
 friend and neighbour, and his name, if I mistake not, is 
 mentioned with respect and praise in one of Coleridge's 
 later prose works. 
 
 Sibylline Leaves : A Collection of Poems. 
 By S. T. Coleridge, Esq. London : Rest 
 Fenner, 23, Paternoster Row, 18 17. 8vo., 
 pp xii + 303. 
 
 Contains " The Ancient Mariner " (acknowledged 
 for the first time), a copious selection from the juvenile 
 
1817.] OF COLERIDGE 49 
 
 poems of 1796 and 1797, and some later uncollected 
 poems, reprinted, with omissions and alterations, from 
 Tie Morning Post. 
 
 This was meant to be the second volume of a col- 
 lected edition of Coleridge's works, and every signature, 
 commencing with B, is marked " Vol. II." The 
 body of the work, as we learn from the Preface, had 
 been set up in type two years previous to publication. 
 The first volume would have contained " Biographia 
 Literaria," but in the process of composition the bulk 
 of this work became too great for the compass of one 
 volume, and the original scheme was discarded. 
 
 " Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters." 
 
 A Lay Sermon, addressed to the Higher 
 and Middle Classes, on the existing dis- 
 tresses and discontents. [Greek motto 
 from Heraclitus, followed by a paraphrase 
 in English.] If ye do not hope, ye will 
 not find : for in despairing ye block up 
 the mine at its mouth ! ye extinguish the 
 torch, even when ye are already in the 
 shaft. By S. T. Coleridge, Esq. London : 
 Printed for Gale and Fenner, Paternoster 
 Row ; J. M. Richardson, Royal Exchange ; 
 
 4 
 
So THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1817- 
 
 and J. Hatchard, Piccadilly. 1 8 1 7. Fcap. 
 8vc, pp. xxxi+ 134. 
 
 The title-page is preceded by a leaf with half-title : 
 "A Lay Sermon addressed to the Higher and Middle 
 Classes on the existing distresses and discontents." 
 Generally known as the " Second Lay Sermon." 
 
 Biographia Literaria : or, Biographical 
 Sketches of my Literary Life and Opinions. 
 By S. T. Coleridge, Esq. London : Rest 
 Fenner, 23, Paternoster Row, 1 8 1 7. 2 vols., 
 8vo. Vol. i. : pp. 296 ; vol. ii. : pp. 309. 
 Vol. i. contains a second half-title, on the 
 reverse of which is a quotation from Goethe, 
 with English translation. 
 
 The only edition published in the author's lifetime. 
 The posthumous edition, in two volumes, annotated in 
 part by the author's nephew and son-in-law, Henry 
 Nelson Coleridge, finished after his death, in 1843, by 
 his widow, the poet's only daughter, Sara Coleridge, 
 and published by William Pickering, in 1847, is more 
 in request than the original edition, which it followed 
 after the long interval of thirty years. 
 
i8i8.] OF COLERIDGE 51 
 
 1817-1818. 
 On Method. — " A Preliminary Treatise," 
 forming " The General Introduction " to 
 " The Encyclopaedia Metropolitana,". 1S17- 
 1 8 1 8, and afterwards reprinted in a separate 
 form. 
 
 A copy of this little volume, which is undated, is 
 among the Forster pamphlets in the Victoria and Albert 
 Museum, South Kensington. 
 
 1818. 
 The Friend : A Series of Essays, in Three 
 Volumes. By S. T. Coleridge. A new 
 edition. London : Printed for Rest Fenner, 
 Paternoster Row, 181 8. 8vo. Vol. i. : 
 pp. ix (with dedication on reverse, leaf of 
 errata) + 3 56; vol. ii.: pp. 336; vol. iii. : 
 PP- 375- 
 
 Remodelled from the privately-printed subscription 
 edition of 1 809-1810, with additional matter, forming 
 a third volume. 
 
 Mr. Rest Fenner, the publisher of this and other 
 
 4—2 
 
52 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [rSr^ 
 
 works, failing in business, the author derived but slight 
 pecuniary benefit from their publication.* 
 
 1819-1822. 
 
 Contributions to "Blackwood's Maga- 
 zine." 
 
 1. 1 8 19. Nov. " Fancy in Nubibus," a sonnet, t 
 
 2. 1820, "Letter to Peter Morris, M.D." This 
 
 was a private letter written by Coleridge to 
 John Gibson Lockhart, and printed by the 
 latter in Blackwood, without the writer's 
 knowledge or consent. 
 
 3. 1821. Oct. "Selections from Mr. Coleridge's- 
 
 Literary Correspondence with Friends and 
 Men of Letters." 
 
 4. 1822. Jan. " Maxilian," 
 
 * A copy of this edition, which formerly belonged 
 to Coleridge, and contained many valuable MS. addi- 
 tions and correetions on the flyleaves and margins in 
 his own hand, sold for £1 1 at Sotheby's, on July 8, 
 1899. 
 
 f In the same number of Blackwood is a note on Sir 
 Thomas Browne by Coleridge, but not contributed by 
 him. It is signed " G, J.," and Mr. Dykes Campbell 
 suggests that these initials, reversed, probably indicate 
 James Gillman, — Ed, 
 
1830.] OF COLERIDGE 53 
 
 1825. 
 Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a 
 Manly Character, on the several grounds 
 of Prudence, Morality, and Religion : 
 illustrated by Select Passages from our 
 .elder divines, especially from Archbishop 
 Leighton. By S. T. Coleridge. 
 
 "This makes that whatsoever here befalls, 
 You in the region of yourself remain, 
 JSTeighb'ring on Heaven : and that no foreign land. 
 
 Daniel. 
 
 London : Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 
 93, Fleet Street; and 13, Waterloo Place, 
 Pall Mall, 1825. 8vo., pp. xvi + 404. 
 
 1830, 
 On the Constitution of the Church 
 and State, according to the Idea of Each; 
 with and toward a Right Judgment on the 
 late Catholic Bill. By S. T. Coleridge, 
 Esq., R.A., R.S.L. London: Hurst, 
 Chance and Co., 1830. Pp. viii + 227. 
 
 A Second Edition, with alterations and additions, 
 appeared in 1 83 1, pp. viii + 241. 
 
54 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1834, 
 
 A Third Edition, together with a Second Edition of 
 the two Lay Sermons, edited from the author's cor- 
 rected copies, with notes by Henry Nelson Coleridge, 
 appeared in 1839, and a Fourth Edition in 1852. 
 
 1834. 
 
 A History of the Royal Foundation of 
 
 Christ's Hospital. By the Rev. W. 
 
 Trollope, M.A., 1 834. 4to., pp. xvi + 358. 
 
 Appendices, pp. cxviii. Index, 5 unpaged 
 
 leaves. 
 
 At p. 191 is printed a poem called "Julia," written 
 by Coleridge at Christ's Hospital in 1789, and one of 
 his earliest known poetical productions. It was found 
 in the Christ's Hospital Book, in which some other 
 juvenile exercises in verse appear, and was reprinted in 
 Coleridge's "Literary Remains," 1836, and again in 
 Pickering's Edition of his "Poetical Works," 1877. 
 
 COLLECTED EDITIONS OF THE 
 POEMS AND DRAMAS. 
 
 1828. 
 The Poetical Works of S. T. Cole- 
 ridge, including the Dramas of Wallen- 
 stein, Remorse, and Zapolya. In three 
 
1 8 34-] OF COLERIDGE 55 
 
 volumes. London : William Pickering. 
 mdcccxxviii. 3 vols., large 8vo. Vol. i. : 
 pp. x+253 ; vol. ii. : 370 ; vol. iii. : 428. 
 
 1829. 
 The Poetical Works of S. T. Cole- 
 ridge, including the Dramas of Wallen- 
 stein, Remorse, and Zapolya. In three 
 volumes. London : William Pickering. 
 mdcccxxix. 3 vols., large 8vo. Vol. i. : 
 pp. x + 253 ; vol. ii. : 394 ; vol. iii.: 428. 
 
 1834. 
 The Poetical Works of S. T. Cole- 
 ridge. London : William Pickering, 
 1834. 3 vols., small 8vo. Vol. i. : 
 pp. xiv+288 ; vol. ii. : vi + 338 ; vol. iii. : 
 
 The first two editions have considerable variations 
 of text. 
 
 The third and last (published in the year of the 
 poet's death) was edited by his nephew, Henry Nelson 
 Coleridge, and is uniform in size and style with the 
 series of " Aldine Poets " issued by the same publisher, 
 
56 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1834- 
 
 of which, indeed, it may be considered to form one. 
 It contains a considerable number of previously un- 
 published poems, printed for the first time from MS., 
 some of them of early and some of later date, and a 
 collection of the poet's contributions to annuals — " The 
 Bijou," " The Keepsake," " Friendship's Offering," etc. 
 On this edition, published by his father in three 
 volumes, in 1834, the fuller and completer four-volume 
 edition published by the late Mr. Basil Montagu 
 Pickering in 1877 is founded. The latter includes, in 
 addition to a great deal of new matter first collected, 
 everything contained in the 1834. edition, except a prose 
 rhapsody entitled " The Wanderings of Cain," which 
 has no claim to the title of a poem. In 1844 a page 
 for page reprint of the 1834 edition was issued, and 
 William Pickering published an excellent one-volume 
 edition of Coleridge's " Poetical Works " in 1848. 
 Later editions were published by Edward Moxon until, 
 after the final ruin of Moxon's house, Mr. Pickering's 
 son again occupied the field of which his father had 
 for a time held a lease. 
 
 An original poem of Coleridge's, entitled " Water- 
 Ballad," contributed to The Athenceum in 183 1, seems 
 to have escaped the notice of the poet's nephew when 
 preparing what was evidently intended as an exhaustive 
 edition. This charming " Ballad" is included for the 
 first time in the four-volume edition of 1877, and was 
 reprinted in Mr. Dykes Campbell's edition of the 
 "Poetical Works," 1893, p. 143. 
 
1852.] OF COLERIDGE 57 
 
 1848. 
 The Poems of S. T. Coleridge. Lon- 
 don : William Pickering, 1848. 8vo., 
 pp. xvi + 372. 
 
 In this edition the dramas are excluded, as well as 
 many of Coleridge's earlier verses. Mr. Dykes Campbell 
 is of opinion that it was edited by the poet's daughter. 
 
 1852. 
 
 The Poems of Samuel Taylor Cole- 
 ridge. Edited by Derwent and Sara 
 Coleridge. A new Edition. London : 
 Edward Moxon, Dover Street, 1852. 
 8vo,, pp. xxxvii + 388. 
 
 With a portrait of Coleridge at the age of twenty-six, 
 for which in some copies of the later issue the Allston 
 portrait of 1814 was substituted. 
 
 This edition contains a hymn from a MS. copy, then 
 lately discovered, and printed in no previous edition. 
 It was omitted (for copyright reasons) from the four- 
 volume edition of 1877. The copyright of this poem, 
 published for the first time forty-eight years ago, has 
 now expired. It is printed in Mr. J. Dykes Campbell's 
 one-volume edition, 1893, p. 185. 
 
 The Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor 
 Coleridge. Edited by Derwent Coleridge. 
 
58 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1869- 
 
 A new Edition. London : Edward Moxon, 
 Dover Street, 1852. 8vo., pp. xvi + 427. 
 
 This edition, and that of the " Poems " of the same 
 year, have been frequently reprinted. 
 
 1869. 
 
 Christabel, and the Lyrical and Imaginative 
 
 Poems of S. T. Coleridge. Arranged and 
 
 introduced by Algernon Charles Swinburne. 
 
 London: Sampson Low, 1869. i6mo., 
 
 pp. xxiii + 150. 
 
 Published in " The Bayard Series." Mr. Swin- 
 burne's Introductory Essay was reprinted in his " Essays 
 and Studies," 1875, pp. 259-275. 
 
 1870. 
 
 The Poems of Samuel Taylor Cole- 
 ridge. 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. 8vo., 
 pp. lxvii + 429. 
 
 The last authorized edition of Coleridge's " Poems " 
 published by Moxon. 
 
1885.] OF COLERIDGE 59 
 
 1877. 
 The Poetical and Dramatic Works of 
 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, founded on 
 the Author's latest Edition of 1834, with 
 many additional pieces now first included, 
 and with a collection of various readings. 
 London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1877. 
 Four vols., fcap. 8vo. Vol. i. : pp. cxviii 
 + 224; vol. ii. : pp. xii + 381 ; vol. iii. : 
 pp. vi + 413 ; vol. iv. : pp. vi + 290. 
 
 One hundred copies were printed on large paper. 
 Edited by the author of this " Bibliography." 
 
 This edition was reissued, with a Supplement of 
 sixteen pages, by Macmillan and Co. in 1880. 
 
 A large-paper edition (extra crown 8vo.) was also 
 issued. Pages ix to cxviii, vol. i., consist of a Memoir 
 of Coleridge and some bibliographical matter. 
 
 1885. 
 The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor 
 Coleridge. Edited, with Introduction and 
 Notes, by Thomas Ashe, B.A., of St. John's 
 College, Cambridge. In two volumes. 
 London : George Bell and Sons, York 
 
60 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1893. 
 
 Street, Covent Garden. 1885. [With 
 portrait of Coleridge after Hancock, and a 
 view of Greta Hall, Keswick.] 8vo. 
 Vol. i. : pp. clxxxvi+212; vol. ii. : pp. 
 
 xiii + 409. 
 
 This edition forms part of Bell's " Aldine Edition of 
 the British Poets." 
 
 1893. 
 
 The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor 
 Coleridge. Edited, with a Biographical 
 Introduction, by James Dykes Campbell. 
 London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. The 
 Preface is dated "St. Leonard's-on-Sea, 
 March 23, 1893." One vol., 8vo., pp. 
 cxxiv + 667. (Text, Notes, Appendices, 
 and Indices in double columns.) 
 
 A reprint was issued in 1899. The frontispiece is a 
 photogravure portrait of Coleridge, from the picture by 
 Peter Vandyke in the National Portrait Gallery. 
 
 This edition professes to be " founded on that pub- 
 lished in 1829, as being the last upon which" the 
 author " was able to bestow personal care and atten- 
 tion." While taking the edition of 1829, however, as 
 
1893.] OF COLERIDGE 61 
 
 the standard for his text, to the poems comprised in it the 
 editor has added " all those dropped by Coleridge from 
 the various collections issued in his lifetime, and all 
 those hitherto added by his editors, from whatever 
 source," not, however, in most cases, without some 
 direct and adequate acknowledgment. He has also 
 added a few discoveries of his own, notably the impor- 
 tant treasure-trove of the previously unknown blank- 
 verse lines to Matilda Betham, written in 1802, the 
 entire credit of which discovery is due to him. The 
 four-volume edition of 1877, produced with consider- 
 able labour and expense, and issued in a sumptuous 
 and voluminous form, is (as might have been expected) 
 laid heavily under contribution. The only thing in 
 that edition which Mr. Dykes Campbell, whether by 
 oversight or otherwise, has not included is the poem of 
 "The Old Man of the Alps" (bearing, like " Lewti," 
 on its first appearance in The Morning Post, the signa- 
 ture of "Nicias Erythrsus " — a signature which not 
 only identifies the authorship of the poem, but which is 
 doubtless intended to possess some meaning and signi- 
 ficance).* This I, somewhat unnecessarily, relegated 
 to an appendix. Like the " Ancient Mariner," " The 
 Old Man of the Alps " tells his tale of woe to a stranger 
 — a less impatient auditor than the wedding guest to 
 a less importunate narrator. Did Mr. Dykes Campbell 
 suppose that the "Nicias Erythrseus" of *'The Old 
 Man of the Alps " was not the identical " Nicias 
 Erythraus" of "Lewti" — the one and indivisible 
 
 * See Note on p. 25. — Ed. 
 
62 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1893- 
 
 " Esteesi " ? or did he overlook a poem of which I 
 had discovered not only the existence but the author- 
 ship ? The method he generally adopted, and frankly 
 acknowledged, without disguise or attempt at conceal- 
 ment, of entering into the labours of his predecessors, 
 rendered his task of editing comparatively easy. It 
 must, however, be cordially admitted that Mr. Dykes 
 Campbell brought qualifications to his task that made 
 him a worthy fellow-worker in any literary field which 
 in his later years he undertook to till. 
 
 The following is a list of the poems, etc., printed 
 for the first time in Mr. J. Dykes Campbell's edition of 
 Coleridge's " Poetical Works " : 
 
 P. 1. "Dura Navis," 1787. 
 
 P. 2. "Nil pejus et caelibe vita," 1787. 
 
 P. 4. " Quae Nocent Docent," 1789. 
 
 P. 10. " An Invocation," 1790. 
 
 P. 12. " On a Lady Weeping," 1790 (?). 
 
 P. 19. "A Wish," 1792. 
 
 P. 19. "An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon," 
 1792. 
 
 P. 20. "A Lover's Complaint to his Mistress," 1792. 
 
 P. 20. "With Fielding's 'Amelia,'" 1792 (?). 
 
 P. 33. "On Bala HilL" 1794. 
 
 P. 138. "Ad Vilmum Axiologum (William Words- 
 worth)," c. 1805. 
 
 P. 158. "The Snow-Drop : a Fragment," 1800 (?). 
 
 P. 171. "An Exile," 1805. 
 
 P. 171. "Homeless," 1810 (?), 
 
 P. 171. "To Asra," 1803. 
 
1898.] OF COLERIDGE 63 
 
 P. 172. " Sonnet, translated from Marini," 1805. 
 
 P. 172. "A Sunset," 1805. 
 
 P. 181. "For a Market Clock : an Impromptu." 
 
 P. 453. Fragments from a Commonplace Book. 
 
 P. 459. Fragments from Various Sources. 
 
 P. 476. Greek Prize Ode on the Slave Trade. 
 
 P. 654. Fragment. 
 
 1898. 
 
 The Poetry of Samuel Taylor Cole- 
 ridge. Edited by Richard Garnett, C.B., 
 LL.D. London : Lawrence and Bullen, 
 Ltd., 16, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, 
 W.C. 1898. i2mo., pp. lii + 318. 
 
 One hundred copies were printed on large paper. 
 Belongs to the series known as " The Muses' Library." 
 
 This edition of the principal poems of Coleridge is 
 important, not only on account of the admirable Intro- 
 duction, but because it contains several readings derived 
 from MS. notes of the author which are not found in 
 previous collections. Dr. Garnett has printed in his 
 Notes for the first time the passage from Shelvocke's 
 " Voyage " relating to the shooting of the albatross on 
 which " The Rime of the Ancient Mariner " was 
 founded. 
 
64 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1835- 
 
 POSTHUMOUS WORKS. 
 
 Specimens of the Table-Talk of Samuel 
 
 Taylor Coleridge. London : John 
 
 Murray, 1835. 2 vols., i2mo. Vol. i. : 
 
 Portrait, pp. lxxvii + one unnumbered 
 
 leaf + 267 ; vol. ii. : Frontispiece, 
 
 pp. xi + 372. 
 
 Edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge, and republished, 
 with " Omniana " and other fragments, by T. Ashe in 
 1884. 
 
 1836-1839. 
 
 The Literary Remains in Prose and 
 Verse of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 
 London: William Pickering, 1 836-1 839. 
 4 vols., 8vo. Vol. i. (1836) : pp. xix + 
 395; vol. ii. (1836): pp. viii + 416; 
 vol. iii. (1838): xvi + 422; vol. iv. (1839), 
 pp. iv: unnumbered + 438. 
 
 A small slip of " Corrigenda in vols. I and 2 " 
 should be found at end of second volume. Edited by 
 Henry Nelson Coleridge. 
 
1847.] OF COLERIDGE 65 
 
 1837- 
 The Friend. Third Edition. London: 
 William Pickering, 1837. 3 vols., 8vo. 
 Vol. i. : pp. xx + one unnumbered leaf 
 (Dedication) + 278 ; vol. ii. : pp. 261 ; 
 vol. iii. : pp. 355 (last page wrongly 
 numbered " 555 "). 
 
 1840. 
 Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit. 
 Edited from the Author's MS. by H. N. 
 Coleridge. London : William Pickering, 
 1840. i6mo., pp. x + two unnumbered 
 leaves, the last forming pp. 1, 2 — 95. 
 
 Republished, with Notes by Sara Coleridge, in 
 1849. 
 
 1847. 
 
 Biographia Literaria, or Biographical 
 
 Sketches of my literary life and opinions, 
 
 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Second 
 
 Edition. Prepared for publication in part 
 
 5 
 
66 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1848- 
 
 by the late Henry Nelson Coleridge. 
 Completed and published by his widow. 
 London : William Pickering, 1847. 2 vols., 
 i2mo. Vol. i., part i. : pp. clxxxvii+ 112 ; 
 part ii.: pp. 112-369 ; vol. ii. : pp. 447. 
 
 The last page of vol. i., part i., is numbered 112, and 
 by an oversight the first page of part ii. is also 
 numbered 112. 
 
 1848. 
 
 Hints towards the Formation of a 
 more Comprehensive Theory of Life. 
 Edited by Seth B. Watson, M.D. London : 
 John Churchill, 1848. 8vo., pp. 94, and 
 unnumbered leaf containing Postscript. 
 
 1850. 
 
 Essays on his own Times ; forming a 
 second series of " The Friend." By 
 Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by his 
 daughter. London: William Pickering. 
 3 vols., 8vo. Vol i. : pp. xciii 4- 292 ; 
 
1853.] OF COLERIDGE 67 
 
 vol. ii. : pp. viii + 293-676 ; vol. iii. : pp. x 
 
 + 677-1034. 
 
 The text of this work is paged continuously. It 
 consists mainly of Coleridge's contributions to The 
 Morning Post, The Courier^ etc. 
 
 1851. 
 Memoir of William Wordsworth, by 
 the Rev. Charles Wordsworth. Edward 
 Moxon, 1 85 1. Vol. i. : Portrait, pp. xii 
 + 457; vol. ii. : Portrait (Dora Words- 
 worth), pp. viii + 524. 
 
 Vol, i. contains a small slip of corrections in the two 
 volumes. 
 
 In this work the poem called " Hexameters," com- 
 mencing " William, my teacher, my friend," was first 
 printed. 
 
 '853- 
 
 Notes upon English Divines, by Samuel 
 Taylor Coleridge. Edited by the Rev. 
 Derwent Coleridge, M. A. London : Ed- 
 ward Moxon. 2 vols., i6mo. Vol. i. : 
 pp. xiv (-(-unpaged leaf of "Contents") 
 5— 2 
 
68 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1853- 
 
 + 356 ; vol. ii. : title, half-title, leaf of 
 
 " Contents" + pp. 356. 
 
 This and the following work were chiefly based upon 
 the " Literary Remains." 
 
 ^53- 
 Notes, Theological, Political, and Mis- 
 cellaneous. Edited by the Rev. Der- 
 went Coleridge, M.A. London: Moxon, 
 1853. i2mo., pp. xii + 415. 
 
 1873. 
 Osorio : A Tragedy. As originally written 
 in 1797. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 
 Now first printed from a stage copy re- 
 cently discovered. With the variorum 
 readings of " Remorse " and a monograph 
 on the History of the Play in its earlier 
 and later form, and notes by the Editor of 
 " Tennysoniana." London : John Pear- 
 son, 1 873. 8vo., pp. xxii, one unnumbered 
 leaf, + 204. 
 
 Published in two sizes, some copies being printed on 
 large paper. 
 
 This edition of " Osorio " was printed from a MS. 
 
1895.] OF COLERIDGE 69 
 
 which was sent by Coleridge to Drury Lane Theatre 
 in October, 1797, and not having been returned, 
 formed part of the salvage of the fire in 1809. After 
 many vicissitudes it came to light and was reprinted 
 in 1873. It was again reprinted by Mr. Dykes Camp- 
 bell from the same manuscript, after collation with 
 another contemporary transcript presented by Coleridge 
 to a friend, apparently Dr. Carlyon (" Poetical Works," 
 1893, Appendix D, p. 479). 
 
 1885. 
 Miscellanies, ^Esthetic and Literary : 
 to which is added the Theory of Life. 
 Collected and arranged by T. Ashe. 
 London: Bell, 1885. 8vo., pp. ix + 442. 
 This volume was included in Bonn's Standard 
 Library. 
 
 1895. 
 
 Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 
 Edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge (1785- 
 1834). In Two Volumes. London: 
 William Heinemann, 1895. 8vo. Vol. i.: 
 pp. xxii-444 ; vol. ii. : pp. x, 445-813, 
 including Index, the pagination being 
 continuous throughout the two volumes. 
 
70 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1895. 
 
 This collection of Coleridge's letters from the 
 earliest to the latest date, edited by a son of the late 
 Rev. Derwent Coleridge, and a grandson of the poet, 
 has partly supplied a desideratum, but there is still 
 much to be accomplished either by himself, or by 
 other after-gleaners in the same field. The two 
 volumes contain two hundred and sixty letters, ad- 
 dressed by the poet to his mother, to his brother the 
 Rev. George Coleridge, to Captain James Coleridge, to 
 Thomas Poole of Nether Stowey, to Mrs. Evans and 
 to Mary and Anne Evans, to G. L. Tuckett, to Robert 
 Southey, to Joseph Cottle, to Josiah Wade, to John 
 Thelwall, to Charles Lamb, to the Rev. J. P. Estlin, to 
 William Wordsworth, to his wife, to the Rev. Mr. 
 Roskilly, to Sir Humphry Davy, to W. Sotheby, to 
 Thomas Wedgwood, to Matthew Coates, to Richard 
 Sharp, to Daniel Stuart, to Washington Allston, to his 
 eldest son Hartley Coleridge, to the Morgan family, to 
 J. J. Morgan, to Mrs. Morgan, to Francis Jeffrey, to 
 Thomas Wilkinson, to William Godwin, to Sir George 
 and Lady Beaumont, to Charles Mathews, to John 
 Murray, to John Kenyon, to the Rev. W. Money, to 
 James Gillman and Mrs. Gillman, to Henry Crabb 
 Robinson, to the Rev. H. F. Cary, to Joseph Henry 
 Green, to Charles Augustus Tulk, to W. Collins, A.R. A., 
 to Thomas Allsop, to Miss Brent, to the Rev. Edward 
 Coleridge, to John Taylor Coleridge, to the Rev, 
 George May Coleridge, to George Dyer, to George 
 Cattermole, to Miss Lawrence, to John Peirs,e Kennard, 
 to Henry Nelson Coleridge, to Mrs. Aders, to John 
 
1 895-] OF COLERIDGE 71 
 
 Sterling, to Miss Eliza Nixon, and to his godson, Adam 
 Steinmctz Kennard. The editor appears to have per- 
 formed his pious task with zeal and discretion ; but 
 his inexperience or impatience in proof - correcting 
 has led him to pass over several ugly misprints which 
 disfigure some of the pages of these two handsome 
 volumes. 
 
 Over and above those collected in the Allsop and 
 Cottle volumes a multitude of Coleridge's letters — 
 always admirable and generally valuable, both from a 
 literary and biographical point of view — lie scattered 
 in memoirs (such as those of Sir Humphry Davy, 
 Wedgwood, William Godwin, Sir George and Lady 
 Beaumont, Thomas Poole of Nether Stowey) and in old 
 magazines, e.g., the Gentleman's,* Fraser's, the London 
 Magazine, etc., well worthy of preservation, together 
 with such as may still remain inedited in manuscript. 
 
 1895. 
 
 Anima Poet^e from the Unpublished Note- 
 books of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited 
 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge. London : 
 William Heinemann, 1895. 8vo., pp. 
 xv + 332. 
 
 * Stuart, of The Morning Tost, published Coleridge's 
 business correspondence with him in The Gentleman's 
 Magazine. 
 
72 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1897. 
 
 1897. 
 A Description of the Wordsworth and 
 Coleridge Manuscripts in the Possession 
 of Mr. T. Norton Longman. With three 
 Facsimile Reproductions. Edited with 
 Notes by W. Hale White. Longmans, 
 Green and Co., 39, Paternoster Row, 
 London, New York, and Bombay, 1897. 
 4to., pp. vi + 72. 
 
 MEMOIRS AND RECOLLECTIONS. 
 
 1836. 
 Letters, Conversations, and Recollec- 
 tions of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 
 [Edited by Thomas Allsop.] London r 
 Edward Moxon, 1836. 2 vols, nmo, 
 Vol. i. : pp. xii + 234 ; vol. ii. : pp. 240. 
 
 1837- 
 
 Early Recollections, chiefly relating to the 
 
 late Samuel Taylor Coleridge during 
 
 his long residence in Bristol. By Joseph 
 
 Cottle. London: Longmans, Rees and 
 
1838.] OF COLERIDGE 73 
 
 Co. and Hamilton, Adams and Co.., 1837. 
 2 vols. 8vo. Vol. i. : pp. xxxviii + 325; 
 vol. ii. : half-title, title, two unnumbered 
 leaves of " Contents " + pp. 346. Pp. 325- 
 336, vol. ii., are misnumbered 313-324. 
 
 With six portraits engraved by Woodman : Coleridge, 
 from a painting by Vandyke, Vol. i,, Frontispiece ; 
 Southey, p. 6; Amos Cottle, p. 124; Wordsworth, 
 p. 2 50 j Lamb, p. 277; Coleridge, Vol. ii., Frontispiece. 
 The portraits of Southey, Wordsworth, Lamb, and 
 Coleridge were from crayons by Hancock ; that of 
 A. Cottle from a picture by Palmer. 
 
 A second preface was printed separately in 1839 " 1Tl a 
 buff wrapper, and offered gratis to purchasers of the first 
 issue. The copy in the British Museum is said to be 
 the only one existing with this preface. The work 
 was reprinted ten years later under the title of: 
 
 Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and' 
 Robert Southey. 
 
 1838. 
 
 The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 
 By James Gillman. Vol. i. London : 
 William Pickering, 1838. Fcap. 8vo., 
 pp. x + 362 + one unnumbered leaf with 
 " Errata " on recto. 
 
74 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1884- 
 
 The half-title runs : " Life of Coleridge in Two 
 Volumes. Vol. I.," but only the first volume was 
 ever published. 
 
 1884. 
 
 Coleridge. By H. D. Traill. London : 
 
 Macmillan and Co., 1884. The Right of 
 
 Translation and Reproduction is reserved. 
 
 Crown 8vo., p. xii (including 3 blanks) 
 
 + 21 1, 1 blank, 2 advertisements. 
 
 This book was issued in the " English Men of 
 Letters " Series. 
 
 1886. 
 
 Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the 
 English Romantic School. By Alois 
 Brandl. English Edition by Lady East- 
 lake. Portrait. London : John Murray, 
 1887. 8vo., pp. xi + 392. 
 
 This is an English translation of the original German 
 work. 
 
 1887. 
 
 Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. By 
 Hall Caine. London : Walter Scott, 24, 
 
1 88 8.] OF COLERIDGE 75 
 
 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row, 1887. 
 Small 8vo., pp. 1 50 + " Bibliography," 
 pp. xxi.* 
 
 A large paper edition in demy 8vo. was also issued. 
 It forms one of the " Great Writers " Series. 
 
 Memorials of Coleorton : being Letters 
 from Coleridge, Wordsworth and his sister, 
 Southey, and Sir Walter Scott, to Sir 
 George and Lady Beaumont of Coleorton, 
 Leicestershire, 1 803-1 834. Edited by 
 William Knight, University of St. An- 
 drews. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1887. 
 2 vols. Vol. i. : pp. xlvi + 227 ; vol. ii. : 
 pp. vii + 294. 
 
 1888. 
 Thomas Poole and His Friends. By 
 Mrs. Henry Sandford. London : Mac- 
 millan and Co., and New York, 1888. 
 All rights reserved. 2 vols. Crown 8vo. 
 Vol. i. : pp. 2 blanks, 1 page portrait, xii 
 
 * Some interesting " Notes " by Mr. Hall Caine on 
 Mr. Ashe's edition of Coleridge's "Works" (see p. 59) 
 were published in The Alhenxum for July II, 1885. 
 
76 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1894- 
 
 (including 3 blanks) + 307, 1 blank ; vol. 
 
 ii. : pp. iv (including 1 blank) + 330 and 
 
 2 advertisements. 
 
 Several letters of Coleridge were published in this 
 work for the first time. 
 
 1894. 
 
 Samuel Taylor Coleridge : A Narrative 
 of the Events of his Life. By James Dykes 
 Campbell. London : Macmillan and Co., 
 1894. Fcap. 8vo., half-title, portrait (from 
 the painting by Van Dyke), title, preface 
 3 pp., 1 blank, contents, 1 leaf + pp. 319. 
 
 This " Narrative " is enlarged from the Introductory- 
 Memoir prefixed to Mr. Dykes Campbell's edition of 
 Coleridge's " Poetical Works." 
 
 A second edition, published in 1896, contains : "A 
 Memoir of the Author by Leslie Stephen," pp. v-xl. 
 
 1895. 
 
 The Gillmans of Highgate, with Letters 
 from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, etc., illus- 
 trated with Views and Portraits, being a 
 Chapter from the History of the Gillman 
 
1898.] OF COLERIDGE 77 
 
 Family. By Alexander W. Gillman. 
 London : Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster 
 Row. (N.D., but 1895). [All rights re- 
 served.] Small 4to., pp. vi, unnumbered, 
 + 57 (the last page is numbered 53, but 
 the total includes four numbered 20*, 20", 
 2o c , and 2o"). With a Preface by Henry 
 B. Wheatley, F.S.A: 
 
 This volume contains some hitherto unpublished 
 letters by Coleridge, and also some of his Notes on 
 philosophical subjects. 
 
 1898. 
 
 Charles Lamb and the Lloyds. Edited 
 by E. V. Lucas. With Portraits. London : 
 Smith, Elder and Co., 15, Waterloo Place, 
 1898. [All rights reserved.] Crown 8vo., 
 pp. xiii + 297, 6 advertisements. 
 Three letters of Coleridge were printed for the first 
 time in this interesting volume. 
 
 The best short papers on Coleridge are " My First 
 Acquaintance with Poets," by William Hazlitt, pub- 
 lished in The Liberal; the Elian essay, by Charles 
 Lamb, in which Coleridge is introduced ; the famous 
 chapter on Coleridge in Carlyle's " Life of John Ster- 
 ling," London, 1851 ; and a portion of De Quincey's 
 
78 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1898. 
 
 " Autobiographic Sketches." There are short memoirs 
 or sketches of Coleridge by Leigh Hunt in the book 
 entitled " Lord Byron and his Contemporaries," orig- 
 inally published in one volume, 4-to., in 1828, and 
 afterwards, in two 8vo. volumes, in 1830 ; and also 
 in the Fraser Gallery of Portraits, written presumably 
 by Maginn, the drawing being by Daniel Maclise. To 
 these may be added incidental notices of Coleridge, innum- 
 erable and of the highest importance, in Charles Lamb's 
 published letters ; in Clement Carlyon's " Recollec- 
 tions of Early and Later Years" ; in the Memoirs of 
 Wordsworth and Southey ; in Leigh Hunt's Autobi- 
 ography j in Crabb Robinson's " Diary " ; in Dorothy 
 Wordsworth's "Journal of a Tour in Scotland in 1803," 
 and in "The Lambs, their Lives, their Friends, and 
 their Correspondence," by W. C. Hazlitt, 1897. 
 
 The following collection, which the editor has been 
 unable to consult, should not be omitted : 
 
 Unpublished Letters from S. T. Coleridge 
 to the Rev. John Prior Estlin. Com- 
 municated by Henry A. Bright. Philo- 
 biblon Society. N.D. 
 
 TABLE-TALK. 
 
 Much of the brilliant and incisive table-talk of Cole- 
 ridge's early and later years (except what has been col- 
 lected expressly by his nephew or preserved incidentally 
 by his more or less famous contemporaries in their 
 
OF COLERIDGE 79 
 
 memoirs and letters) has probably perished with his 
 intimates, and, as there was no Boswell to record it, is 
 now hopelessly irrecoverable. Enough remains to make 
 us eager to obtain more, and disposed to regret bitterly 
 what is lost. 
 
 The following book may find an entry here : 
 
 The Table-Talk and Omniana of Samuel 
 Taylor Coleridge ; with additional Table- 
 Talk from Allsop's " Recollections," and 
 manuscript matter not before printed. 
 Arranged and edited by T. Ashe. Lon- 
 don : Bell, 1 8 84. 8vo., pp. xix (one 
 unnumbered leaf) + 446. 
 
 The main contents of this volume, which was in- 
 cluded in Bohn's Standard Library, consist of Henry, 
 Nelson Coleridge's " Specimens of the Table-Talk of 
 S. T. C," which was originally published in 1835. 
 
 MARGINALIA. 
 
 There exist, in Coleridge's autograph, extending over 
 many years, a large number of marginalia on poets, 
 divines, etc., and on many general subjects, both secular 
 and sacred. Some of these have been collected, but a 
 considerable proportion of those extant are still unpub- 
 lished, and a great boon would be conferred by any 
 enterprising editor or publisher who, with the aid of 
 their present owners, could bring them together into 
 
80 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY 
 
 one sequence and render them accessible to his admirers. 
 This habit was adopted by Coleridge in early life, and 
 continued through a long course of years. Some of 
 these manuscript marginalia are in books borrowed by 
 him, some in those of his own collection, some in 
 pencil, others in ink ; all are generally very suggestive, 
 and full of fine and choice criticism. Coleridge's will 
 was printed in the public journals shortly after his 
 death. It is a long and very remarkable document, 
 well worthy of permanent preservation. 
 
 A few of the printed marginalia may be enumerated. 
 In the year 1830 a thin volume of "Sonnets" was 
 published by Charles Tennyson, of which a copy was 
 presented to Coleridge. This volume afterwards came 
 back into the possession of the family enriched with 
 many marginal notes, and these "applausive comments," 
 as they are styled by James Spedding in his Introduc- 
 tory Essay, were printed in the collected edition of the 
 author's poems.* Other interesting commentaries will 
 be found in Notes and Queries, of which the most im- 
 portant are those on Pepys' "Diary" (1st S., vi. 213), 
 Raleigh's " History of the World" (1st S., xii. 5), and 
 Fuller's " Worthies " (7th S., vi. 501). In this connec- 
 tion it may be interesting to note the numerous books 
 in the library of his friend Charles Lamb which were 
 
 * Collected Sonnets, Old and New. By Charles 
 Tennyson Turner. London : C. Kegan Paul and Co., 
 I, Paternoster Square, 1880. Coleridge's notes will be 
 found between pp. 36 and 84. 
 
OF COLERIDGE 81 
 
 enriched with Coleridge's marginalia. Of these, the 
 best known is the 1679 folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's 
 " Fifty Comedies and Tragedies." Another very 
 interesting relic is the 17 18 edition of Daniel's 
 " Poetical Works," of which a description, with many 
 extracts, is given in Notes and Queries, 1st S., vi. 
 117. A list of sixty-six books in the Library of the 
 British Museum, containing MS. notes, etc., by Cole- 
 ridge, is given by Mr. J. P. Anderson in the Bibliography 
 appended to Mr. Hall Caine's " Life of Coleridge." 
 
 In The Athenaum for April 7 and June 23, 1888, the 
 late Mr. J. Dykes Campbell printed some interesting 
 marginalia which Coleridge had written in copies of 
 Grew's u Cosmologia Sacra," and of Jahn's "History 
 of the Hebrew Commonwealth." Since Mr. Camp- 
 bell's death two other valuable articles have been com- 
 municated to the same paper : one in the number for 
 December 26, 1896, on Coleridge's marginalia on a 
 copy of Flogel's "History of Comic Literature ;" and 
 the other in the number for May 22, 1897, on a copy 
 of Spinoza's Works in the library of Manchester 
 College, Oxford. I may also refer to some notes in a 
 copy of Colquhoun's " Treatise on Indigence," which 
 was printed in the New York Philobiblion, 1862, i. 65. 
 
 LECTURES. 
 
 Golden fragments of Coleridge's numerous lectures 
 have been preserved, in shorthand and otherwise, by 
 some of those who heard and took notes of them. 
 
 6 
 
82 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1849- 
 
 There also exist, though of rare occurrence, printed 
 fly-leaf Syllabuses, emanating direct from the author, 
 of these successive courses of lectures, which collectors 
 eagerly seek after. Coleridge's lectures extended over 
 a long course of years. The pulpit utterances of his 
 youth do not appear to have been published or printed 
 to any large extent, either separately or in journals. 
 The art of shorthand reporting as applied to sermons 
 was then in its infancy, and Coleridge's fame and 
 influence in that respect were merely local and pro- 
 vincial. Hazlitt's paper, " My First Acquaintance with 
 Poets," gives the best extant idea of his appearance and 
 method in the pulpit ; but in later years these per- 
 formances had become so legendary that Coleridge, 
 recounting to a company of guests at Gillman's table his 
 deliverances and exhortations of those youthful years, 
 referred to his early friend Charles Lamb, who was 
 present, for confirmation, when Lamb, in answer to 
 Coleridge's appeal, " Charles Lamb, did you ever hear 
 me preach ?" made the prompt and witty retort, con- 
 veyed in his usual roll of stammers : " I n — nev — never 
 — h — heard — you — d — do — anything else." 
 
 The following works include the principal lectures 
 delivered by Coleridge at various times : 
 
 1849. 
 Notes and Lectures upon Shakespeare 
 and some of the Old Poets and Dramatists, 
 with other Literary Remains of S. T. 
 
1856.] OF COLERIDGE 83 
 
 Coleridge. Edited by Mrs. H. N. Cole- 
 ridge. London: W. Pickering, 1849. 
 2 vols., i6mo. Vol. i. : pp. xv + 372; 
 vol. ii. : v+ 371. 
 
 These notes were chiefly reprinted from " Literary 
 Remains." 
 
 1856. 
 
 Seven Lectures upon Shakespeare and 
 Milton, by the late S. T. Coleridge. A 
 list of all the MS. Emendations in Mr. 
 Collier's Folio, 1632 ; and an introductory 
 preface by J. Payne Collier. London : 
 Chapman and Hall, 1856. 8vo., pp. cxx 
 
 + 275- 
 
 This work is based on some papers contributed by 
 J. P. Collier to Notes and Queries (ist S., x. i, 21, 
 57, 117)5 which were commented on in the same 
 periodical at various dates (ist S., x. 106, 373 ; xii. 8o, 
 322). Two of the lectures, namely. No. IX., "Lecture 
 on Progressive Changes in English Prose Composition," 
 and No. XIV., "Lectures on Rabelais," were reported 
 in Leigh Hunt's periodical, The Tat/er, ii. 893, 897. 
 Rough notes by H. H. Carwardine on the Lectures of 
 1 81 8 were printed in Notes and Queries (4.th S., v. 335). 
 
 Reference may also be made to some articles com- 
 
 6—2 
 
8 4 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY [1883. 
 
 municated by Mr. Dykes Campbell to Thfi Athenieum 
 for March 16 and May 4, 1889, on "Coleridge's 
 Lectures in 18 1 8," and also the same paper in the 
 numbers for December 26, 1891, and January 2, 1892, 
 on " Some Lectures delivered by Coleridge in the 
 Winter of 1818-19." A copy of Coleridge's pros- 
 pectus is given in Gillman's " Life," p. 329. 
 
 1883. 
 
 Lectures and Notes on Shakespeare and 
 other English Poets. Now first collected 
 by T. Ashe. London: Bell, 1883. 8vo., 
 pp. xi + 552. 
 
 This volume was included in Bohn's Standard Library. 
 
 CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANNUALS. 
 
 In the later years of his life Coleridge was induced to 
 contribute largely in verse, sometimes original poems, 
 and sometimes old epigrams resuscitated from Tie 
 Morning Post, to the annuals fashionable at that time, 
 chiefly to The Keepsake, The Bijou, Friendship's Offering, 
 The Literary Souvenir, The Amulet, and to others whose 
 very names are now forgotten. In one of these latter 
 appeared a short original contribution entitled " Christ- 
 mas Day," which by inadvertence and oversight was 
 
OF COLERIDGE 85 
 
 omitted from the 1877 edition — an omission all the 
 more inexcusable because, although I did not possess a 
 copy of the annual itself, the lines themselves, duly 
 verified, were copied, in my father's handwriting, in 
 one of his old scrap-books easily accessible to me, if not 
 already my property, at that time. These eight lines 
 are printed in his edition (p. 171) from a MS. source 
 by Mr. J. Dykes Campbell, who was apparently un- 
 aware that they had been published in one of the 
 annuals. The four-line epitaph written at an Edin- 
 burgh inn on abandoning the Scottish tour in 1803, 
 and quoted in one of Coleridge's published letters, 
 should also have been given among the fragments and 
 nugs of his productions in verse. 
 
 The following is a list of these productions 
 so far as they can be ascertained : 
 
 " The Amulet." 
 
 1828 (pp. 37-47). "The Improvisatore." 
 1833 (pp. 31, 32). "Three Scraps" (I. "Love's 
 Burial Place " ; II. " The Butterfly" j III. 
 " A Thought suggested by a View of Saddle- 
 back in Cumberland ").* 
 
 * " Love's Burial Place " was first printed in the P. W. 
 of 1828, under the title of "The Alienated Mistress: 
 a Madrigal. (From an unfinished Melodrama)"; and 
 "The Butterfly" in " Biographia Literaria," 1817, 
 i. 82, note. 
 
86 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY 
 
 "The Bijou." 
 
 1828 (p. 17). " The Wanderings of Cain " (a frag- 
 ment in prose). 
 
 1828 (p. 28). "Work without Hope, Lines com- 
 posed on a Day in February." 
 
 1828 (p. 144). " Youth and Age." 
 
 1828 (p. 136). "A Day-Dream. " 
 
 1828 (p. 202). " The Two Founts." 
 
 Friendship's Offering, a Literary Album 
 and Annual Remembrancer. 
 
 The volume for 1834 contains the following poems 
 and jeux d' esprit by Coleridge : 
 
 " Fragments from the Wreck of Memory ; or, Por- 
 tions of Poems composed in Early Manhood." 
 By S. T. Coleridge : 
 I. " Hymn to the Earth " (p. 165). 
 II. " English Hexameters, Written during a Tem- 
 porary Blindness" (p. 167). 
 
 III. " The Homeric Hexameter Described and 
 
 Exemplified " (p. 168). 
 
 IV. " The Ovidian Elegiac Metre Described and 
 
 Exemplified" (p. 169). 
 V. " A Versified Reflection " (p. 169). 
 " Love's Apparition and Evanishment," an Allegorical 
 
 Romance. By S. T. Coleridge (p. 355). 
 " Lightheartednesses in Rhyme." By S. T. Coleridge : 
 I. "The Reproof and Reply" (p. 356). 
 
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 II. "An Answer to a Friend's Question" (p. 359). 
 
 III. " Lines to a Comic Author on an Abusive 
 
 Review " (p. 359). 
 
 IV. " Splenetic Extempore on Leaving Cologne " 
 
 (p. 360). 
 
 " The Keepsake." 
 
 1829 (pp. 122, 277, 311, 360). "Epigrams." 
 
 1829 (p. 282). "The Garden of Boccaccio." 
 
 1830 (p. 264.). Song, ex improvise, "On Hearing a 
 
 Song in Praise of a Lady's Beauty." 
 1830 (p. 279). "The Poet's Answer to a Lady's 
 Question respecting the Accomplishments 
 most Desirable in an Instructress of Children " 
 (reprinted in the " Poetical Works " of 1834. 
 under the title of " Love, Hope, and Patience 
 in Education "). 
 
 " The Literary Souvenir." 
 
 1827 (p. 346). "What is Life?" 
 1829 (p. 17). "Lines suggested by the last Words 
 of Berengarius."* 
 
 "The New York Mirror." 
 
 1829, Dec. 19. " Lines written in Miss Barbour's 
 Common-Place Book" (reprinted in The 
 Athenaum for Nov. 17, 1883, and in a 
 corrected form for May 3, 1884.). 
 
 * In a footnote to the title was given the " Epitaphium 
 Testamentarium " (Dykes Campbell, p. 210). 
 
88 BIBLIOGRAPHY 
 
 The preceding pages do not profess to 
 record any American or foreign editions of 
 Coleridge's productions, but the regret may 
 be permitted that we have left it to our 
 cousins across the sea to produce the first 
 complete edition of a great Englishman's 
 works in prose and verse. This was edited 
 by Professor W. G. T Stedd, who prefixed 
 an introductory essay on Coleridge's philoso- 
 phical and theological opinions, and was pub- 
 lished in New York in 1853. No complete 
 edition of Coleridge's prose works has yet 
 appeared in England. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 A. 
 
 The Editor is indebted to the kindness of 
 Mr. Edwin Abbott, Fellow and Librarian of 
 Jesus College, Cambridge, for some valuable 
 information regarding a Latin Prose Decla- 
 mation, which was written by Coleridge in 
 March, 1792, and is now preserved in a 
 manuscript volume, together with other 
 Declamations, in the library of Jesus College. 
 The pages of this book are 7-^ by 12-J 
 inches in size, and four pages are occupied 
 by Coleridge's work, or ninety-three lines 
 in all. 
 
 From a tracing of the handwriting with 
 which Mr. Abbott has been good enough 
 
9 o THE BIBLIOGRAPHY 
 
 to favour the Editor, the latter is of opinion, 
 after comparing it with specimens of the 
 poet's writing in his own possession, that 
 Coleridge wrote the Declamation himself, and 
 that it is not the work of a copyist. This 
 opinion is confirmed by the fact that in two 
 cases the same student has won the Decla- 
 mation twice in different years, and in both 
 cases the pair of Declamations are in a peculiar 
 handwriting. The inference is, therefore, 
 that each student copied out his own work. 
 This renders curious the fact that absurd 
 and occasionally gross errors have been left 
 in the Latin. 
 
 The title of the Declamation is not in 
 Latin, but in English, and is : " That the 
 desire of Posthumous Fame is unworthy a 
 Wise Man." The following is a brief 
 analysis : Under a mistaken notion, orators 
 and poets have exalted the beauties of Fame. 
 The pursuit of Fame leads to ostentation : 
 sometimes it is pursued by infamous methods, 
 as, for instance, by Cromwell (Talem te, 
 
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 noster Catalina, te, Cromwelle, accepimus). 
 The recent storming of Ismail by Suwarof, 
 with the accompanying slaughter of 30,000 
 men, is attributed to the pursuit of Fame. It 
 is conferred by the rabble, the lowest class of 
 men. If Fame, during your own lifetime, 
 is to be despised, how vain a thing is pos- 
 thumous Fame ! Fame is inconstant. To sum 
 up : " Fama mihi, dum vivimus, fumus esse 
 videtur — Fama post mortem, oblivio." 
 Lastly, the writer meets the objection that if 
 Fame be removed, all incentives to Virtue are 
 removed with it. 
 
 It will be seen that the Declamation, which 
 has never been printed, is crude and youth- 
 ful in ideas, and it would certainly not 
 enhance Coleridge's reputation to print an 
 essay which is, if anything, rather inferior to 
 the general run of such performances, though 
 the Latin style is sometimes not without 
 vigour, and it has a good sense of rhythm. 
 A good criticism of it is contained in a 
 paper entitled " A Prize Declamation " 
 
92 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY 
 
 which appeared in Chanticleer (the Jesus 
 College magazine), vol. i., No. 2 (1886). 
 From this paper the Editor ventures to make 
 a short extract : 
 
 " It shows signs of being done hastily, with little 
 care or with little inclination for the work. Of course 
 it may be urged that we cannot expect any very 
 original or striking sentiments from a young man at 
 college on the hackneyed subject of Posthumous Fame ; 
 perhaps not, but the name of Coleridge at the end 
 does lead us to look for something above mediocrity. 
 This Declamation, however, does not always rise to 
 the level of mediocrity. It looks (from its numerous 
 errors) as if it had been left to the last minute, and 
 then dashed off just as the ideas came into the poet's 
 head. A Latin Declamation certainly does not appear 
 at its best when criticised as an English Essay. In 
 compositions of this class, style has to be thought of 
 as well as matter, and sometimes the latter sacrifices 
 to the requirements of the former; but Coleridge does 
 not seem to have thought deeply of either. There is 
 not in the whole Declamation any one single thought 
 or expression which could be called striking." 
 
 The reviewer winds up by saying of the 
 Declamation : 
 
 " If it had been anonymous, we think it need not 
 have feared posthumous fame." 
 
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 B. 
 
 In a Bibliographical Note which is appended 
 to the Memoir of Mr. Dykes Campbell, 
 prefixed to the second edition of his " Samuel 
 Taylor Coleridge," there is a list of the 
 articles contributed by Mr. Campbell to The 
 Athenaum, the majority of which are on 
 subjects connected with Coleridge, Words- 
 worth, and Lamb. This list is not quite 
 complete, as it omits one or two interesting 
 articles which have an intimate bearing on 
 those authors. It is stated, for instance, 
 that Campbell's first article was a review of 
 Brandl's " Life of Coleridge." This is not 
 the case. It is also said that " he writes 
 upon the sources of the ' Ancient Mariner ' 
 on the 15th and 22nd of March, 1890." 
 The article contained in the number for 
 March 1 5 was a review of Mr. Ivor James's 
 book on Captain Thomas James's " Strange 
 and Dangerous Voyage," which the letter of 
 March 22 proves could not have been written 
 
94 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY 
 
 by Campbell. But the number for March 1 5 
 does contain a very important article by 
 Campbell, which has been omitted by the 
 compiler of the list, communicating Cole- 
 ridge's verses to Matilda Betham, which 
 were for the first time published in book 
 form in Mr. Campbell's edition of the 
 " Poetical Works," p. 167. Several of Mr. 
 Campbell's articles have been utilized in the 
 preceding pages, but as a matter of biblio- 
 graphical interest, the Editor thinks it well 
 to give a corrected list of those relating to 
 Coleridge : 
 
 1884. May 3. Lines written in Commonplace Book 
 
 of Miss Barbour. 
 
 1885. March 14. Coleridge, Lamb, Leigh Hunt, 
 and others in " The Poetical Register." 
 
 1887. April 23. The London Magazine. 
 
 1887. June 18. Review of Brandl's " Coleridge." 
 
 1888. Jan. 7. Coleridge on Cary's "Dante." 
 1888. March 10. The 1828 edition of Coleridge's 
 
 "Poems." 
 
 1888. April 7. Coleridge Marginalia hitherto un- 
 published. On Grew's " Cosmologia Sacra." 
 
 1888. May 5. Coleridge Notes (written with 
 reference to an article under the same title 
 by Sir G. Grove in the number for April 14). 
 
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 888. June 23. Coleridge Marginalia hitherto 
 unpublished. On Jahn's " History of the 
 Hebrew Commonwealth." 
 
 889. March 1 6. Coleridge's Lectures in 1818. I. 
 
 889. May 4. Coleridge's Lectures in 1818. II. 
 
 890. March 15. Unpublished Verses by Cole- 
 ridge to Matilda Betham. 
 
 890. March 22. The Source of the "Ancient 
 Mariner." 
 
 890. April 5. Coleridge's " Osorio " and " Re- 
 morse." 
 
 890. May 10. Review of Dowden's Reprint of 
 "Lyrical Ballads." 
 
 890. May 31. Coleridge and " The Anti-Jacobin." 
 
 890. Nov. 22. The Lyrical Ballads of 1800. 
 
 891. Aug. 29. A Sonnet by Coleridge. 
 
 891. Dec. 26. Some Lectures delivered by Cole- 
 
 ridge in the Winter of 1818-19. I. 
 
 892. Jan. 2. Some Lectures delivered by Cole- 
 
 ridge in the Winter of 1 818-19. II. 
 
 892. June 25. Coleridge's "Osorio" and "Re- 
 morse." 
 
 892. Aug. 20. Coleridge's Quotations. 
 
 892. Nov. 12. Scott on Coleridge. 
 
 893. Sept. 16. Coleridge on Quaker Principles. 
 893. Dec. 9. The Prospectus of Coleridge's 
 
 "Watchman." 
 
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