CPW CORRECTIONS (Dec 08)

CPW CORRECTIONS (Dec 08): VOLUME I = READING TEXT

p xxxi CONTENTS: PART I.

Insert following 664 "King Solomon knew all things" 1116:

664A The Joy of Age

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p lxvii CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES

Insert in LH column, under last entry for 1800:

(14 Sept) Birth of DC

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p 204 To the Rev W.J.H. (109)

(a) In para 2, replace first sentence with:

Only two versions of the poem are known: what appears to be early copy for publication in Poems (1796) in C's hand and publication in that volume.

(b) And add to end of para 2:

The ms version shows particular care over the pattern of line-indentation.

C added a stress mark in the ms: viz. "cóncentrate".

(d) Insert as editorial footnote to lines 15-6:

The ms gives double underlines to "undivided", "Toil", "Health" and "Love", suggesting they should be given the same typographical treatment. If the words are going to be treated differently, "undivided" should probably be in italics and the remaining three words in caps.

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p 445 The Old Man of the Alps (168)

Insert at end of the final para of the headnote, following "extremely small."

Album verses have come to light, however, that combine lines 48-50 of the poem with an additional line under a new title, signed and dated 12 Apr 1830: see 664A The Joy of Age at p 1117. The adaptation could be held to increase the likelihood that C thought the present poem was his own.

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p xxi CONTENTS: PART II.

Insert following 664 "King Solomon knew all things" 1116:

664A The Joy of Age

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p 820 Psyche (402)

In para 1, revise the opening of the third sentence to read:

Five of the six extant ms versions

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p 1055 The Alternative (622)

Revise footnote 3 to read:

An unusual name for a woman -- it is the name of the town in Sicily where Proserpine was carried away by Pluto -- but it makes "Anne" in reverse and could therefore point to AG, with whom relations were tricky at about this time.

(Graham Davidson)

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p 1117 Insert following text of "King Solomon knew all things" (664):

664A. THE JOY OF AGE

[Apr 1830]

The verses were inscribed by C in an album, over his signature dated Highgate 12 Apr 1830. They combine lines 48-50 of 168 The Old Man of the Alps, first published in M Post 8 Mar 1798, and now preceded by a line written for the occasion and with a new title. The album belonged to Elizabeth Green, only child of William Green, a wealthy Jamaican planter, and his wife Ann Rose, née Hall and later Wood, also daughter of a Jamaica planter. William Green died in Feb 1814, a few months after the birth of his daughter. Elizabeth died 24 Dec 1898.

C wrote the words "Daughter's Wedding-day" here in larger letters. His own daughter, Sara, had been married on 3 Sept 1829, and he might here be looking forward to the young Elizabeth Green's marriage in Apr 1831 to the fifth earl of Harrington, Leicester Stanhope (1784-1862). However, see variorum corrections below for a version of 402 Psyche that C copied into the same album. It is possible that he copied out a version of Psyche first, as he did for his friend Mrs Samuel Carter Hall, on 30 April 1830; then decided it was unsuited for a recipient so young and fashioned the present poem as a counter to its mood. If 12 April does not refer to the date of Sarah Green's engagement, it might be the date when the album was left with him.

One Joy I have, tho' Age my eyes bedims:

For O! you know not, on an Old Man's limbs

How thrillingly the pleasant sun-beams play

That shine upon a Daughter's Wedding-day.

CPW CORRECTIONS (Dec 08): VOLUME II = VARIORUM

p xxx CONTENTS: PART I.

Insert following 568 Greek Couplet on Lauderdale 1178:

568.X1 Faustus: From the German of Goethe

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p xxxiv CONTENTS: PART I.

Insert following 664 "King Solomon knew all things" 1320:

664A The Joy of Age

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p 143 Imitated from the Welsh (73)

(a) Insert between MS 2 and PR 1:

3. BM Add MS 85796 (item 5). On the verso of a single unnumbered leaf torn from an album, 18.8 x 23.7 cm; wm top half of large crown over shield; chain lines 2.65 cm. Fair copy in C's hand, in ink. The recto and top half of the verso contains a fair copy of To the Rev W.J.H. (109). The leaf carries pencil endorsements in an unknown hand: "An original M.S. by Coleridge" (recto) and "Coleridge's own" (verso).

C copied out the text carefully, in a manner resembling the Quarto Copy Book that served as copy for Poems (1796), probably before the time Cottle began to preserve the materials now in the Rugby Manuscript. It came to the BM as part of the Ottery Collection. The leaf has been folded in half and has a small scorch-hole on the crease.

(b) Insert the following variants in the collation:

description/title. 3 Song | (imitated from the Welch) 1. 3 If ● 3 passion ● 3 impart 3. 3 hand ● 3 heart -- 4. 3 you! 5. 3 no! reject ● 3 claim 6. 3 lover! 7. 3 flame, 8. 3 discover.

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p 288 To the Rev W.J.H. (109)

(a) Under B. TEXT, insert:

1. BM Add MS 85796 (item 5). On the recto and verso of a single unnumbered leaf torn from an album, 18.8 x 23.7 cm; wm top half of large crown over shield; chain lines 2.65 cm. Fair copy in C's hand, in ink. Following the present poem, the verso contains a fair copy of Imitated from the Welsh (73). The leaf carries pencil endorsements in an unknown hand: "An original M.S. by Coleridge" (recto) and "Coleridge's own" (verso).

C copied out the text carefully, in a manner resembling the Quarto Copy Book that served as copy for Poems (1796), paying particular attention to the different patterns of indentation in each stanza. Indeed, he left a blank space measuring 9.5 cm between the last line of stanza 2 and the foot of the recto so as to copy stanza 3 (here unnumbered) complete on the verso. The leaf has been folded in half and has a small scorch-hole on the crease in which an indefinite article has been lost.

(b) Insert before Poems (1796):

1 [=RT].

(c) Insert the following variants in the collation:

title. 1 To the Reverend W.J.H. while teaching a young lady some song-tunes on his Flute. before 1. 1 1. 1 Ye 3. 1 Hollow ● 1 Flute 4.1 Breath 5. 1 Memory 6. 1 throng, 7. 1 Hope, before 9. 2 10. 1 Tones, ● 1 cóncentrate 11. 1 Flute ● 1 Notes again 12. 1 mild, 13. 1 poet's 15. 1 Dell 16. 1 TOIL ● 1 HEALTH ● LOVE 20. 1 ~~Listning~~ Wand'ring ● 1 Maid, 21. 1 Lay 22. 1 thee, 23. 1 Notes 24. 1 Lyre") 25. 1 Form, 26. 1Tear.

20. C made the improvement in MS 1 before continuing to write out the line.

26. The scorch mark in MS 1 removed what was obviously an "a" before "raptur'd".

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p 566 The Old Man of the Alps (168)

Insert at end of the headnote, under B. TEXT, following "(MS A Wrangham 1)."

C used lines 48-50 as part of album verses he inscribed over his own name in Apr 1830. See below 664A The Joy of Age.

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p 574 Lewti (172)

Under TEXTS, MS 2, add to close of first para:

; photographic reproduction in Minnow facing vii.

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p 737 The Devil's Thoughts (214)

Insert following the last para of introductory prose and before title:

The text published by F. G. Harding, Cornhill, accompanying ten etchings of scenes from the poem by Thomas Landseer all dated 1 Jan 1831, comprises 10 stanzas in the sequence 1 2 3 6 4 13 5 7 9 17. This version resembles MSS 3 and 4 (only) in omitting stanza 8 (in numbering geared to the text of PW 1834), but is unique in positioning stanza 6 between stanzas 3 and 4 without further mediation. Stanza 13 mentions Brothers the Prophet, as in both MS 8 and RS's 1838 expanded version, and stanza 17 names General Gascoigne.

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p xx CONTENTS: PART II.

Insert following 568 Greek Couplet on Lauderdale 1178:

568.X1 Faustus: From the German of Goethe

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p xxiv CONTENTS: PART II.

Insert following 664 "King Solomon knew all things" 1320:

664A The Joy of Age

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p 1037 Psyche (402)

Insert between texts 4 and 5, and afterwards collate:

4A. Private owner (2006). Album of Elizabeth Green. Text from a photograph: original not seen. Signed "S. T. Coleridge | April 1830 | Grove, Highgate." The same album contains contributions in the hand of Elizabeth Isabella Spence, Edwin Atherstone, John Howard Payne, Moffat James Horne and J. S. Buckingham; also, on a different page, The Joy of Age, which draws on 168 The Old Man of the Alps.

See RT 664A The Joy of Age on Elizabeth Green. The present version of Psyche works through the improvement in line 4 that was embodied in MS 5, which C copied out for Mrs Samuel Carter Hall at the end of the same month, and the Elizabeth Green inscription refers to the same portrait of a butterfly referred to in Mrs Hall's album, occupying an identical position on p 2. There would therefore appear to have been a pair of albums containing matching, or nearly matching, entries. Was Mrs Hall related by marriage to Elizabeth Green's mother, née Ann Hall? It seems unlikely, given her husband's Irish background, and yet the coincidence of names is peculiar. Did C have the pair of albums in his possession throughout the month while he was confined to his sickroom, inscribing them both at the same time and dating The Joy of Age in the light of Elizabeth Green's future marriage to the fifth earl of Harrington? The suggestion of two albums containing the same portrait may yet prove to be a symptom of his confused state of mind at the time, but it does not obviate the other possibilities: for instance, that The Joy of Age was composed to balance the sombre mood of Psyche for his young recipient.

introductory note. Lines recalled by the splendid portrait of the Butterfly in the last Leaf ofbut one of this Art-adorned Album. N.B. Psychè in Greek means both the Butterfly and the Soul.

1 The BUTTERFLY the Ancient Grecians made

2 The Soul's fair emblem and its' only Name;

3 But of the Soul escap'd the slavish trade

4 Of ~~mortal~~earthly life! For in this mortal Frame

5 Ours' is the Reptile's* lot---much toil, much blame,

6 Manifold Motions making little speed,

7 And to deform and kill the things, on which we feed.

5. C's note in the LH margin: * i.e. the Caterpillar.

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p 1178 Insert following entry on Greek Couplet on Lauderdale (568):

568.X1. FAUSTUS: FROM THE GERMAN OF GOETHE

A reprint of the anonymous translation published by Thomas Boosey in 1821 to accompany 27 line engravings by Henry Moses after originals by Moritz Retzsch. The translation – of a selection of passages from Part I -- is accompanied by five other translations that appeared about the same time, and the surrounding introduction and stylometric analysis urge the case for C's authorship. The edition was launched with considerable fanfare – after all, it would be wonderful if C and Goethe were linked in this way – but the case unfortunately remains unproven. Also, a number of scholarly reviews and review-essays have brought forward important evidence that suggests different conclusions about authorship are possible, along with criticisms to which the editors have not supplied convincing answers. The result is that, while the edition has revived interest in a fascinating moment in Anglo-German cultural relations, a moment in which C was centrally involved, the unqualified assertion that he authored the present translation ignores and/or misrepresents a body of evidence to the contrary. Put another way, the bold claim contained in the title is at best misleading, at worst could be wrong. A full selection from the debate surrounding authorship is available on The Friends of Coleridge website.

I have positioned this entry in Volume II, and not among the plays in Volume III, to avoid misunderstanding about its status. X stands for unproven attribution and by the standards applied elsewhere in the Bollingen edition of PW the translation falls into the same category as (for example) An Expostulatory and Panegyrical Ode (274.X1), A Philosophical Apology for the Ladies (274.X2) and The Barberry-tree (420.X1).

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p 1320 Insert following text of "King Solomon knew all things" (664):

664A. THE JOY OF AGE

[Apr 1830]

A. DATE

Between 12 and 30 Apr 1830, or on one of those two dates. There are reasons to wonder if the earlier date records when the album was delivered to STC or commemorates the day on which the owner was engaged to be married, not the date the lines were composed. See above on 402 Psyche, MS 4A (inserted).

B. TEXT

Private owner (2006). Album of Elizabeth Green (before 1816-1898), for whom see RT. Text from a photograph: original not seen. Signed "S. T. Coleridge | Highgate | 12 April 1830." The same album contains contributions in the hand of Elizabeth Isabella Spence, Edwin Atherstone, John Howard Payne, Moffat James Horne and J. S. Buckingham; also, on a different page, MS 4A of 402 Psyche.

The RT reproduces the text exactly, except for:

title. MS The Joy of Age. 4. Daughter's Wedding-day.] written in larger characters