FOOTNOTES:
Felix curarum &c.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nos otia vitae
Solamur cantu, ventosaque gaudia famae
Quaerimus.
Statius, Silvarum lib. iv, iv, ll. 46-51.
[1135:2] The following Advertisement was issued on a separate sheet:—
London, April 16. / This day was Published. / Printed on Wove Paper, and Hot-Pressed, / Price 5s. in Boards,—Fools-cap 8 vo. / Poems / on Various Subjects, by / S. T. Coleridge, / Late of Jesus College, Cambridge. / London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinsons, Pater-Noster Row, and / J. Cottle, Bookseller, Bristol; and to be had of the / Publishers of the Watchman / 1796. /
[1136:1] From 'An Evening Address to a Nightingale', by Cuthbert Shaw—Anderson's British Poets, xi. 564.
'Why may not Langhorne, simple in his lay,
Effusion on Effusion, pour away?'
The Candidate, ll. 41-2.
[1140:1] The ancient little Wits wrote many poems in the shape of Eggs, Altars, and Axes. (MS. Note by S. T. C.)
[1140:2] The title of the volume is 'Sonnets and Odes, by Henry Francis Cary. Author of an Irregular Ode to General Elliot. London 1787.'
Lines 6-9 of the Sonnet read thus:—
From him deriv'd who shun'd and spurn'd the throng
And warbled sweet, thy Brooks and streams among,
Lonely Valclusa! and that heir of Fame
Our English Milton—
Line 14 reads:—
A grandeur, grace and spirit all their own.
The Poems were the first publication of 'Dante' Cary, then a boy of fifteen, whom Coleridge first met at Muddiford in October, 1816, and whose translation of the Divina Commedia he helped to make famous.
[1141:1] The three Sonnets of Bowles are not in any Edition since the last quarto pamphlet of his Sonnets. (MS. Note by S. T. C.)
[1144:1] Ossian.
[1146:1] Compare The Pursuits of Literature, Dialogue 1, lines 50, 55, 56.
The self-supported melancholy Gray
* * * * *
With his high spirit strove the master bard,
And was his own exceeding great reward.
The first Dialogue was published in May 1794. The lines on Gray may have suggested Coleridge's quotation from Genesis, chap. xv, ver. 1, which is supplied in a footnote to line 56.
[1150:1] The 'Eolian Harp', with the title 'Effusion xxxv. Composed August 20, 1795, at Clevedon, Somersetshire', was first published in 1796, and included as 'Composed at Clevedon' in 1797 and 1803. It is possible that it may have been originally printed in a newspaper.
[1150:2] The fourth and last edition of the Lyrical Ballads was issued in 1805.
[1151:1] The List numbers thirty, and of these not more than twenty are strictly speaking Errata. Of the remainder the greater number are textual corrections, emendations, and afterthoughts.
[1151:2] The allusion is to the prolonged and embittered controversy between Coleridge and his friends at Bristol, who had printed his works and advanced him various sums of money on the security of the sheets as printed and the future sale of the works when published. They were angry with him for postponing completion of these works, and keeping them out of their money, and he was naturally and reasonably indignant at the excessive sum charged for paper and printing. The fact was that they had done and intended to do him a kindness, but that in so far as it was a business transaction he suffered at their hands.
[1151:3] The title of these Iambic lines is 'Relictis Aliis Studiis Philosophiam Epicuream amplectitur'.
[1151:4] Ben Jonson, vide ante, p. 1118.
[1151:5] Vide ante, pp. 419, 420.
[1169:1] See Wordsworth's P. W. 1896, in. 21: The Small Celandine, ll. 21, 22.
