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VOLUME I [READING TEXT] : CORRECTIONS
p xvii CONTENTS: PART I.
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251 [cancelled] 602
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p viii CONTENTS: PART II.
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251 [cancelled] 602
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p 125 To a Beautiful Spring (74)
Add to the headnote, at the close of para 1:
Elements of the poem, dating from eighteen months and maybe longer before, might reflect feelings STC expressed about the River Cam (see VAR lines 28.1.1-6 commentary).
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pp 602-3 To Delia (251)
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Cancelled. The author was John Wolcot (1738-1819), who published the lines under his pseudonym Peter Pindar, the person addressed being the painter, Ozias Humphry (1742-1810). The present ms surfaced at auctions in the earlier 20th century, when it was ascribed to Dr Johnson. It was afterwards lost to public view for more than fifty years but resurfaced in the 1970s, when it was re-ascribed to Coleridge and sold as such to the Houghton Library at Harvard. Full details are supplied by Marianne Van Remoortel "A Poem Wrongly Ascribed to Johnson and to Coleridge" Notes and Queries N.S. LVII (2010) 211-3.
The grounds for connecting the ms to STC so far remain unknown: the evidence of the handwriting alone is certainly insufficient. In the meantime, one might note that Humphry was born and schooled in Honiton, and was a good friend of William Jackson of Exeter (1730-1803), of whom he painted a miniature. If the ms ever did pass through STC's hands, it was probably at the time when he and RS visited the Ottery (Honiton)-Exeter area, and were in touch with literary-artistic circles that included Jackson and Exeter friends of Wolcot, during Sept 1799.
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VOLUME II [VARIORUM TEXT] : CORRECTIONS
p xviii CONTENTS: PART I.
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251 [cancelled] 791
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p viii CONTENTS: PART II.
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251 [cancelled] 791
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p 125 Domestic Peace (66)
Under C. GENERAL NOTE, para 1, insert into second line:
The British Poetical Miscellany (Huddersfield ?1799; originally published weekly in 30 numbered parts, selling at a penny each) I:7;
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p 145-6 To a Beautiful Spring (74)
Under A. DATE, replace with the following:
Shortly before 21 Aug 1794, although elements date from eighteenth months before that time and maybe longer. See commentary on lines 28.1.1-6 below and vol.I headnote.
(b) p 145 To a Beautiful Spring (74)
Under TEXTS, PR 2, insert into second line:
The British Poetical Miscellany (Huddersfield ?1799; originally published weekly in 30 numbered parts, selling at a penny each) XXIV:7-8;
(b) p 147 To a Beautiful Spring (74)
Add a further note to the close of the second band of textual material, as follows:
28.1.1-6. A variant of these lines appeared at the close of a sonnet addressed to the River Cam by T. F. Middleton in The Country Spectator No.16 (Gainsborough, Lincs. 22 Jan 1793), p129:
Yet ah! too short is Youth's fantastic dream,
Ere Manhood wakes th' unweeting heart to woe!
Silent and smooth CAM's loitering waters flow;
So glided Life, a smooth and silent stream:
Sad change! for now by choking cares withstood
It scarcely bursts its way, a troubled boisterous flood.
Earlier lines invoke STC and the surrounding essay is one of series of three that explore the problems confronting both young men at the time. It would therefore be appropriate for Middleton to borrow them, and even adapt them while he did so.
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p 154 Epitaph on a Infant (77)
(a) Under C. GENERAL NOTE, between paras 1 and 2, insert:
The British Poetical Miscellany (Huddersfield ?1799; originally published weekly in 30 numbered parts, selling at a penny each) XI:6 reproduced the (a) version of the poem---almost certainly, like other poems by STC in the same volume from PR 4 here. However, separate issues of the Miscellany differ in their ascription: The BL copy (ESTC T128709) ascribes the poem to "Anonymous", the HUL copy in 31 parts (ESTC N15600) to ""Coleridge".
(b) Under C. GENERAL NOTE, para 2, revise the opening of the second sentence to read:
This also casts
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p 190 To a Young Ass (84)
Under TEXTS, PR 3, insert at close of second line:
The British Poetical Miscellany (Huddersfield ?1799; originally published weekly in 30 numbered parts, selling at a penny each) VIII:7;
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p 202 To an Old Man in the Snow (88)
Under TEXTS, PR 2, insert at close of second line:
; The British Poetical Miscellany (Huddersfield ?1799; originally published weekly in 30 numbered parts, selling at a penny each) III:2-3
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p 791 To Delia (251)
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Cancelled. The author was John Wolcot (1738-1819), who published the lines under his pseudonym Peter Pindar, the person addressed being his friend, the painter Ozias Humphry (1742-1810). The ms surfaced at auctions in the earlier 20th century, when it was ascribed to Dr Johnson. It was afterwards lost to sight for more than fifty years but resurfaced in the 1970s, when it was re-ascribed to Coleridge and sold as such to the Houghton Library (HUL). Full details are supplied by Marianne Van Remoortel "A Poem Wrongly Ascribed to Johnson and to Coleridge" Notes and Queries N.S. LVII (2010) 211-3.
The grounds for connecting the ms to STC so far remain unknown: the evidence of the handwriting alone is certainly insufficient. In the meantime, one can note that Humphrey was born and schooled in Honiton, and was a good friend of William Jackson of Exeter (1730-1803), of whom he painted a miniature. If the ms ever did pass through STC's hands, it was probably at the time when he and RS visited the Ottery (Honiton)-Exeter area, and were in touch with literary-artistic circles that included Jackson and Exeter friends of Wolcot, during Sept 1799.