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POEMS

BY

HARTLEY COLERIDGE.

WITH A MEMOIR OF HIS LIFE

BY HIS BROTHER.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

EDWARD MOXON, DOVER STREET.

1851.

280: m. 230.

LONDON:

BRADBURY AND KVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.

ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION.

THE appearance of these volumes has been postponed on various accounts considerably beyond the time originally contemplated; it is hoped that more has been gained in completeness than lost by delay. New materials have continually come to hand. The Author's scattered poems, preserved by the care of his friends, have been gradually gathered in. His essays and other contributions to different periodicals have been placed at the Editor's disposal. The copyrights of a volume of poems and of a biographical work, entitled, Biographia Borealis, or Lives of the Northern Worthies, brought out under considerable disadvantage at Leeds, in the year 1833, have been repurchased. A mass of interesting matter has been

found written in the margins of books, or dispersed through an immense number of note-books. It is now proposed to edit a careful selection from these various remains, in three or more several issues, each constituting an independent whole, but forming, when complete, an entire collection of his writings, as far as they shall be deemed worthy of permanent preservation.

The present volumes comprise, in addition to an introductory Memoir, the volume of poems above mentioned, which has been long out of print, and a second volume of poetry almost entirely posthumous, and of greater extent and more varied character, produced agreeably to a long-cherished intention of the Author.

This will be followed by a collection of the Author's essays, both published and unpublished, with a selection from his Marginalia, and other miscellaneous writings;* and, lastly, it is intended to prepare a corrected edition of the Northern

* These have now appeared in two volumes, which will shortly be followed by a third of a more miscellaneous character. Nov. 1, 1851.

Worthies, with additional annotations, some of which are from the hand of S. T. Coleridge.*

The works of HARTLEY COLERIDGE, respecting which much interest has been expressed, will thus be rendered accessible to the public for the first time in an uniform shape, with the addition of new matter to the extent of one third.

The portrait of the Author, in his eleventh year, has been engraved by Holl, from an interesting sketch by Wilkie, by permission of the owner, Sir George Beaumont, of Coleorton Hall, Leicestershire, to whom the Editor begs to offer his best acknowledgments.

ST. MARK'S COLLEGE, CHELSEA,

Feb. 1, 1851.

DERWENT COLERIDGE.

This Edition, which will extend to three volumes, is now in the Press, and may be expected in a few weeks. Nov. 1, 1851.

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