Coleridge's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Editions)

by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; Halmi, Nicholas; Magnuson, Paul; Modiano, Raimonda

• ISBN13: 9780393979046
• ISBN10: 0393979040
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-18
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

His writings are wide-ranging in form andcontent, and vast in number. Norton's long-awaited edition is the mostcomprehensive and user-friendly student edition available. Supportingapparatus includes detailed headnotes, footnotes (both Coleridge's andthe editors'), biographical register, glossary, and an index of poemsand first lines. "Criticism" includes twenty assessments of Coleridge's poetry and proseby British and American authors. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xiii
General Introduction	xv
Textual Introduction	xxi
Acknowledgments	xxiii
Permissions Acknowledgments	xxiv
Abbreviations	xxv
The Texts of Coleridge's Poetry and Prose
Poems on Various Subjects (1796)	3	(31)
Preface	4	(1)
Monody on the Death of Chatterton	5	(5)
To a Young Lady with a Poem on the French Revolution	10	(2)
Effusions	12	(8)
Effusion I [To Bowles]	12	(1)
Effusion II [To Burke]	13	(1)
Effusion III [To Pitt]	13	(1)
Effusion IV [To Priestley]	14	(1)
Effusion V [To Erskine]	14	(1)
Effusion VI [To Sheridan]	15	(1)
Effusion XX. To the Author of the ``Robbers''	16	(1)
Effusion XXII. To a Friend together with an Unfinished Poem	16	(1)
Effusion XXXV. Composed August 20th, 1795, at Clevedon, Somersetshire [The Eolian Harp]	17	(3)
Religious Musings	20	(14)
Ode on the Departing Year (1796)	34	(9)
To Thomas Poole, of Stowey	35	(2)
Ode on the Departing Year	37	(6)
Poems (1797)	43	(11)
To the Reverend George Coleridge, of Ottery St. Mary, Devon	44	(2)
From Preface to the Second Edition	46	(2)
Introduction to the Sonnets	48	(2)
Sonnet IV. To the River Otter	50	(1)
Sonnet IX. Composed on a journey homeward	51	(1)
Sonnet X. To a Friend	52	(1)
Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement	52	(2)
Lyrical Ballads (1798, 1800)	54	(54)
The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, in Seven Parts (1798)	58	(1)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1834)	59	(41)
The Foster-Mother's Tale, A Dramatic Fragment	100	(2)
The Nightingale; A Conversational Poem, Written in April, 1798	102	(3)
The Dungeon	105	(1)
Love	106	(2)
Fears in Solitude (1798)	108	(15)
Fears in Solitude	110	(6)
France. An Ode	116	(4)
Frost at Midnight	120	(3)
The Morning Post and the Annual Anthology (1800)	123	(20)
The Visions of the Maid of Orleans	125	(4)
Recantation, Illustrated in the Story of the Mad Ox	129	(4)
Lines Written in the Album at Elbingerode, in the Hartz Forest	133	(1)
To a Friend	134	(2)
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison	136	(3)
Sonnet XII. To W. L. Esq.	139	(1)
Fire, Famine, & Slaughter. A War Eclogue	140	(3)
Dejection: An Ode (1802)	143	(15)
A Letter to---[Sara Hutchinson]	145	(10)
Dejection: An Ode	155	(3)
Christabel, Kubla Khan, and the Pains of Sleep (1816)	158	(27)
Christabel	161	(19)
Preface	161	(1)
Christabel	162	(18)
Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream Of the Fragment of Kubla Khan	180	(5)
Kubla Khan	182	(2)
The Pains of Sleep	184	(1)
Sibylline Leaves (1817)	185	(18)
Preface	186	(2)
Love-Poems	188	(6)
The Picture, or The Lover's Resolution	188	(4)
The Visionary Hope	192	(1)
Recollections of Love	193	(1)
Meditative Poems in Blank Verse	194	(9)
Hymn Before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouny	195	(3)
Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath	198	(1)
A Tombless Epitaph	198	(2)
To a Gentleman [William Wordsworth]	200	(3)
Poetical Works (1828, 1829, 1834)	203	(24)
Poetical Works (1828). Prose in Rhyme: or, Epigrams, Moralities, and Things Without a Name	206	(12)
Phantom or Fact? A Dialogue in Verse	206	(1)
Work Without Hope	207	(1)
A Day Dream	208	(1)
Lines Suggested by the Last Words of Berengarius	209	(1)
Constancy to an Ideal Object	210	(1)
Prefatory Note to the Wanderings of Cain	211	(3)
The Wanderings of Cain	214	(4)
Poetical Works (1829)
The Garden of Boccaccio	218	(3)
Poetical Works (1834). Miscellaneous Poems Phantom	221	(6)
Youth and Age	221	(2)
Love's Apparition and Evanishment	223	(1)
A Character	224	(2)
--- E cœlo descendit γνωθι σεαυτoν.---Juvenal	226	(1)
Epitaph	227	(1)
Uncollected Poetry	227	(9)
[Apologia pro vita sua]	228	(1)
The Day Dream	228	(1)
[Metrical Experiments, 1805]	229	(1)
A Thought Suggested by a View of Saddleback	230	(1)
[Notebook Fragment, 1806]	231	(1)
[Notebook Fragment, 1807]	231	(1)
[Notebook Fragment, 1810]	232	(1)
[Notebook Fragments, 1811]	233	(3)
From a Moral and Political Lecture (1795)	236	(12)
Conciones and Populum. or Addresses to the People (1795)	248	(10)
From On the Present War	250	(8)
Lectures on Revealed Religion (1795)	258	(16)
From Lecture 2	259	(4)
From Lecture 5	263	(6)
From Lecture 6	269	(5)
From the Plot Discovered; Or an Address to the People, Against Ministerial Treason (1795)	274	(6)
The Watchman (1796)	280	(19)
Prospectus	282	(2)
Modern Patriotism	284	(3)
On the Slave Trade	287	(12)
Once a Jacobin Always a Jacobin (1802)	299	(7)
Lectures on Literature (1811--12, 1818)	306	(32)
[On Romeo and Juliet]	309	(11)
[On Ancient and Modern Drama and The Tempest]	320	(12)
[On Hamlet]	332	(4)
[On Dramatic Illusion]	336	(2)
Essays on the Principles of Genial Criticism (1814)	338	(13)
From Essay 2	340	(4)
From Essay 3	344	(7)
Lay Sermons (1816--17)	351	(21)
From The Statesman's Manual; or The Bible the Best Guide to Political Skill and Foresight	354	(8)
From Appendix C of the Statesman's Manual	362	(7)
From A Lay Sermon (``Blessed are ye that sow beside all Waters!'')	369	(3)
Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions (1817)	372	(180)
From Volume 1
Chapter 1	377	(16)
From Chapter 2	393	(5)
From Chapter 3	398	(9)
Chapter 4	407	(14)
From Chapter 5	421	(2)
From Chapter 6	423	(4)
From Chapter 7	427	(6)
From Chapter 8	433	(6)
From Chapter 9	439	(10)
From Chapter 10	449	(12)
From Chapter 11	461	(2)
From Chapter 12	463	(18)
Chapter 13	481	(8)
From Volume 2
Chapter 14	489	(7)
From Chapter 17	496	(9)
From Chapter 18	505	(11)
From Chapter 19	516	(1)
From Chapter 20	517	(6)
From Chapter 22	523	(21)
From Chapter 24	544	(8)
The Friend (1818)	552	(16)
[Reason and Understanding]	555	(5)
From Essays on the Principles of Method	560	(8)
Aids to Reflection (1825)	568	(8)
From Preface	570	(3)
From Moral and Religious Aphorisms	573	(2)
From Aphorisms on Spiritual Religion	575	(1)
On the Constitution of the Church and State (1830)	576	(34)
From Chapter 2	579	(3)
Chapter 5	582	(5)
Miscellaneous Prose
Androgynous Minds	587	(1)
The Bible	587	(1)
Death	588	(1)
Dreams and Sleep	589	(2)
Education	591	(1)
Evil	592	(1)
Feelings	592	(1)
The French Revolution	593	(1)
John Keats	594	(1)
Language	594	(2)
Life	596	(1)
Love, Lust, and Friendship	597	(1)
Madness	598	(1)
Nature	599	(2)
Opium	601	(1)
Pantheism	602	(1)
Parliamentary Reform	603	(1)
Philosophy	604	(1)
Platonists and Aristotelians	605	(1)
Poetry	605	(1)
Prayer	605	(1)
Religion	606	(1)
Self-Analysis	607	(1)
Symbol	608	(1)
Women	609	(1)
William Wordsworth	609	(1)
The Letters (1796-1820)	610	(159)
To John Thelwall (November 19, 1796)	611	(2)
To Thomas Poole (February 6, 1797)	613	(1)
To Thomas Poole (March 1797)	614	(3)
To Joseph Cottle (April 1797)	617	(1)
To Thomas Poole (October 9, 1797)	618	(2)
To Thomas Poole (October 16, 1797)	620	(4)
To Thomas Poole (February 19, 1798)	624	(2)
To George Coleridge (c. March 10, 1798)	626	(1)
To Thomas Poole (March 16, 1801)	627	(1)
To Thomas Poole (March 23, 1801)	628	(2)
To William Sotheby (September 10, 1802)	630	(2)
To Sara Coleridge (November 23, 1802)	632	(1)
To Thomas Wedgwood (September 16, 1803)	633	(3)
To Thomas Poole (October 14, 1803)	636	(1)
To J. J. Morgan (May 14, 1814)	637	(2)
To J. J. Morgan (May 15, 1814)	639	(1)
To Thomas Allsop (March 30, 1820)	640	(5)
Criticism
Nineteenth Century: Britain
The Prelude (1805), book 6, lines 249-331	645	(2)
William Wordsworth
From Christ's Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago	647	(1)
Charles Lamb
From Letters	648	(1)
From [The Album of a London Bookseller]	649	(1)
From Lectures on the English Poets	649	(1)
William Hazlitt
From The Spirit of the Age	650	(3)
From The Life and Correspondence of Charles Mathews the Elder, Comedian	653	(1)
Anne Jackson Matthews
From Samuel Taylor Coleridge	654	(3)
Thomas De Quincey
From Autobiography	657	(1)
Harriet Martineau
From The Life of John Sterling	658	(4)
Thomas Carlyle
From Coleridge	662	(3)
John Stuart Mill
Nineteenth Century: United States
From Letters	665	(1)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
From Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks	666	(1)
From First Visit to England	666	(2)
From Letter to B---	668	(1)
Edgar Allan Poe
From a Review of Letters, Conversations and Recollections	668	(1)
From Art, Literature and the Drama	669	(2)
Margaret Fuller
Twentieth Century
From A Poem of Pure Imagination: An Experiment in Reading	671	(11)
Robert Penn Warren
From Structure and Style in the Greater Romantic Lyric	682	(14)
M. H. Abrams
Coleridge and the Deluded Reader: ``The Rime of the Ancient Mariner''	696	(14)
Frances Ferguson
From ``Christabel'': The Wandering Mother and the Enigma of Form	710	(12)
Karen Swann
From Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical Years	722	(9)
Nicholas Roe
Coleridge on Shakespeare: Method Amid the Rhetoric	731	(7)
Peter Hoheisel
From The Biographia Literaria and the Contentions of English Romanticism	738	(12)
Jerome J. McGann
[Coleridge's Theory of the Imagination]	750	(5)
Thomas McFarland
From The Idea of the Clerisy: Samuel Taylor Coleridge	755	(14)
Ben Knights
Biographical Register	769	(6)
Glossary	775	(4)
Coleridge: A Chronology	779	(6)
Selected Bibliography	785	(8)
Index of Poem Titles and First Lines	793