CPW CORRECTIONS ( Sep 06): VOLUME I = READING TEXT
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p 509 Kubla Khan (178)
Revise line 2 of the headnote to read:
two most likely possibilities are Sept-Nov 1797 and May 1798,
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p 546 Extempore Couplet on German Roads and Woods (198)
Revise last line of headnote to read:
Greenough, Charles Parry and Carlyon.
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p 547 Lines Written in the Album at Elbingerode, in the Harz Forest (200)
Revise line 2 of the headnote to read:
party left Elbingerode. Three of the party, Charles Parry, Carlyon and Greenough, made copies,
Revise line 6 of the headnote to read:
Ten texts survive: C's holograph, the versions reported by Parry and Carlyon, and seven
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CPW CORRECTIONS ( Sep 06): VOLUME II = VARIORUM
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p 670 Kubla Khan (178)
Under A.DATE: the paragraph beginning "Thirdly, the poem might have been written . . ." should be substituted as follows:
The suggestion by Elizabeth Schneider Coleridge, Opium and "Kubla Khan" (Chicago 1953) ch IV and nn, that the poem might have been written in Oct 1799 or (less likely) May-Jun 1800, depends upon references to C's quarrel with Lloyd and coincidences with his reading in 1799. However, it is much less plausible in the light of C's quotation of two lines from the poem in May 1799: see additional note on lines 10-11 below.
In the first line of the paragraph following this substitution, emend "three" to "two".
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p 678 Kubla Khan (178)
Insert into the notes following the apparatus:
10-11] Charles H. Parry, in a long journal-letter headed "Göttingen May 4, 1799" contained in his MS copybook entitled Journal: Letters, 1796-1799 (Bodleian MS Eng. misc.d.608 f 181r), notes that C "quoted from a Poem of his own" when the walking group halted at a clearing in the woods between Scharzfeld and Neuhof on the morning of 12 May. Parry records only two lines:
"And here were Forests, ancient as the Hills,
Enclosing Sunny Spots of greenery."
The lines are quoted by Dean Coleridge and Geology 133, but note that Dean's reading of the other Charles Parry versions added below differs in particulars.
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p 705 Homesick: Written in Germany, Adapted from Bürde (196)
The following text should be inserted between MSS 1 and 2, the latter to be renumbered 3, and should also be incorporated into the collation:
2 Bodleian MS Eng.misc.d.608 f 187v. Quoted by Charles H. Parry in a long journal-letter headed "Göttingen May 4, 1799", under the date 13 May specifically, contained in his MS copybook entitled Journal: Letters, 1796-1799.
'Tis sweet to him who, all the week,
Through City Crowds must push his way,
To stroll alone through woods & fields,
And hallow, thus, the Sabbath day.
2.
And sweet it is, in Summer Bower
Sincere, affectionate & gay,
Our own dear children feasting round,
To celebrate our Wedding Day.
3.
But what is all to his delight,
Who having long been doomed to roam,
Throws off the bundle from his back,
Before the door of his own home.
4.
Home-sickness is no baby pang,
That feel I hourly more & more,
Theres healing only on thy wings,
Thou Breeze, that play'st on Albions Shore.
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p 707 Extempore Couplet on German Roads and Woods (198)
The following text should be inserted between MSS 1 and 2, the latter to be renumbered 3, and should also be incorporated into the collation:
2 Bodleian MS Eng. misc.d.608 f 177r. Quoted by Charles H. Parry in a long journal-letter headed "Göttingen May 4, 1799", specifically under the date 11 May, contained in his MS copybook entitled Journal: Letters, 1796-1799.
We walk'd
-- the younger Parry bore our
goods --
O'er d----d bad Roads, thro' d----d delightful woods.
1. walk'd--] Parry deleted the
exclamation and then replaced it with a dash.
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p 710 Lines Written in the Album at Elbingerode, in the Harz Forest (200)
The following text should be inserted before MS 1, the present MSS to be to be renumbered 2 and 3, and should also be incorporated into the collation:
1 Bodleian MS Eng. misc.d.608 f 190v-91r Quoted by Charles H. Parry in a long journal-letter headed "Göttingen May 4, 1799", specifically under the date 13 May, contained in his MS copybook entitled Journal: Letters, 1796-1799.
I stood on Brockens soverign height, & saw
Woods crowding over woods, Hills over hills,
A perfect wild, & only limited
By the blue distance. Wearily my way,
Downward, I dragg'd thro' Fir woods evermore,
Where bright green Moss heaps, speckled by the Sun,
Heav'd in sepulchral shapes, & seldom heard,
The sweet birds song became a hollow sound --
And the gales, murmuring like a far off sea,
Preserv'd its
their solemn music, most distinct
From the Brooks petulant Clamour. I had found,
That grandest scenes have but imperfect charms,
Where the sight vainly wanders, nor beholds
One spot, with which the heart associates
Holy remembrances of Child, or friend,
Or gentle Maid, our first & only Love,
Or Father, or the venerable name
Of our adored Country.-- Oh thou Queen!
Though delegated Goddess of this Earth!
Oh dear, dear Britain! how my longing eye
Turn'd Westward, shaping, in the vacant Clouds,
Thy Sands, & high white Cliffs.-- Dear native Land!
My Heart was proud -- yea -- mine eyes swam with Tears,
To think of Thee -- & all the goodly view
From Sovreign Brocken, woods & woody Hills,
Floated away, like a departing dream,
Feeble & Faint.-- Stranger!-- these impulses,
Blame thou not lightly; nor will I profane,
With hasty Spirit, & injurious doubt,
That Mans sublimer Spirit, who can feel
That God is every where -- that God who made
Mankind to be one mighty Brotherhood --
Himself our Father -- & the world our Home.
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p 713 Lines Written in the Album at Elbingerode, in the Harz Forest (200)
Insert into the notes following the apparatus:
10. ] Parry
first wrote a comma at the end of the line, then deleted it.
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CPW CORRECTIONS ( Sep 06): VOLUME III = PLAYS
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p 1237 Remorse (Printed) (502.X3)
Correct line 2 of title-page epigraph to "balmy".
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p 1372 Zapolya (517.X1)
I i 238a. Correct the speaker of the first half-line to "LASK."
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