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- 040-002103874
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- 032-002103817
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COLERIDGE PAPERS. Vol. LVI (ff. 33). Volume entitled 'Poetical Attempts' (ff. 3, 4), containing twenty early poems by S. T. Coleridge evidently written out by him for members of his family and showing some variations, mostly verbal, from the published versions; 1789-1792. Imperfect (see below). Variant readings from the manuscript, listed as 'MS. Ottery', were printed, with some inaccuracies, in The Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge, 1912. As follows:-(1) 'The Progress of Vice-An Ode', beg. 'Deep in the gulph of Vice and Woe'. f. 4;-(2) 'On Imitation', beg. 'All are not born to soar-and ah! how few'. f. 5;-(3) 'An Anthem', beg. 'Seraphs! around th'Eternal's seat who throng'. ff. 5b-6;-(4) 'An Ode on the destruction of the Bastile', beg. 'Heard'st thou yon universal cry'. ff. 6b-8;-(5) 'Monody on the death of Chatterton', beg. 'Now prompts the Muse poetic lays'. ff. 8b-llb;-(6) 'Monody on a Tea Kettle', beg. 'O Muse! who sangest late another's pain'. ff. 12-13;-(7) 'The Nose, a Rhapsody', beg. 'Ye souls! unus'd to lofty verse'. ff. 13b- 15;-(8) 'O curas hominum-O quantum est in rebus inane', beg. 'The fervid Sun had more than halv'd the Day'. ff. 15b-17b;-(9) 'Happiness, a Poem', beg. 'On wide or narrow scale shall Man'. ff. 18-21;-(10) 'Ode to Sleep', beg."Tis hard on Bagshot heath to try'; 17 Aug. 1791. ff. 21b-22;-(11) Beg. 'Th'indignant bard compos'd this furious ode'; 23 Aug. 1791. ff. 22b-23;-
(12) 'Ode on the Ottery and Tiverton Church Music', beg. 'Hence-souldissolving Harmony'. ff. 23b-24;-(13) 'Sonnet 1. To my Muse', beg. 'Though no bold flights to thee belong'. f. 25;-(14) 'Sonnet 2', beg. 'As late I journey'd o'er th'extensive plain'; Sept. 1789. f. 26;-(15) 'Sonnet 3', beg. 'Maid of my Love! Sweet Genevieve!' f. 27;-(16) 'Sonnet 5. On receiving an account, that my Sister's Death was inevitable', beg. 'The tear, which mourn'd a brother's fate, scarce dry'. For a later copy see Add. MS. 47554, f. 42b. f. 28;-(17) 'Sonnet 7. Sent to Mrs. - with an Amelia', beg. 'Virtues and Woes alike too great for Man'. f. 29;-(18) 'Sonnet 8', beg. 'O meek attendant of . . .'. Imperfect. f. 30;-(19) 'Sonnet 9. On quitting Christ's Hospital', beg. 'Farewell! Parental scenes! a sad farewell'. f. 31;-(20) Beg. ['Once could the Moon's first beams, the healthful breeze']. Imperfect. f. 32. Also included (f. 29b) is an unfinished poem by John Taylor Coleridge (knt. 1835), the poet's nephew, on the death of his brother, Bernard Frederick, in 1805, beg. 'Cease thou, lorn mother, cease those bitter tears'. According to an early pagination, in which the numbers 17 and 18 are mistakenly repeated, two leaves are missing between ff. 27-28 and 28-29. Two leaves (ff. 30, 32) are torn in half. Among miscellaneous notes, Latin verses, sketches, etc., are notes by James Duke Coleridge (f. 33), the signature of his brother John Taylor (f. 2) while at Eton, and the name 'Charlotte Baker' (f. 2).
Poetry: S. T. Coleridge: poems: 1789-1818.: Mostly autogr.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet and philosopher: Poems: 1789-1818.
includes:
- f. 2 Charlotte Baker: Signature (?): circ. 1800.
- f. 29b Poetry: Sir J. T. Coleridge: verses: 1805-1814.: Autogr.
- f. 29b Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Justice of Queen's Bench: Poems: 1805-1814.
- f. 33 James Duke Coleridge, Prebendary of Exeter 1825: Notes by: circ. 1800.
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- Western Manuscripts
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- Additional Manuscripts
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- 032-002103817
040-002103874 - Is part of:
- Add MS 47496-47558 : NOTEBOOKS, poems, letters and papers of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (b. 1772, d. 1834), together with correspondence and papers…
Add MS 47551 : COLERIDGE PAPERS. Vol. LVI (ff. 33). Volume entitled 'Poetical Attempts' (ff. 3, 4), containing twenty early poems by S. T.… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002103817[0002]/040-002103874
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1789
- End Date:
- 1792
- Date Range:
- 1789-1792
- Era:
- CE
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Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Justice of Queen's Bench: Owned: circ. 1805, 1838.
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- Names:
- Baker, Charlotte, signatory of a volume of Samuel Taylor Coleridge poems, fl 1800
Coleridge, James Duke, Prebendary of Exeter 1825
Coleridge, John Taylor, Justice of Queen's Bench
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, poet and philosopher, 1772-1834