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[i]
THE
COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS
OF
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
INCLUDING
POEMS AND VERSIONS OF POEMS NOW
PUBLISHED FOR THE FIRST TIME
EDITED
WITH TEXTUAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
BY
ERNEST HARTLEY COLERIDGE
M.A., HON. F.R.S.L.
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. I: POEMS
OXFORD
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
1912
[ii]
HENRY FROWDE, M.A.
PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
LONDON, EDINBURGH, NEW YORK
TORONTO AND MELBOURNE
[iii]
PREFACE
The aim and purport of this edition of the Poetical Works of SamuelTaylor Coleridge is to provide the general reader with an authoritativelist of the poems and dramas hitherto published, and at the same time tofurnish the student with an exhaustive summary of various readingsderived from published and unpublished sources, viz. (1) the successiveeditions issued by the author, (2) holograph MSS., or (3) contemporarytranscriptions. Occasion has been taken to include in the Text andAppendices a considerable number of poems, fragments, metricalexperiments and first drafts of poems now published for the first timefrom MSS. in the British Museum, from Coleridge's Notebooks, and fromMSS. in the possession of private collectors.
The text of the poems and dr