TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:

Pages xxviii and 494 are blank in the original.

Ellipses in the text are represented as in the original. Ellipses in poetry are indicated by a row of asterisks.

Changes have been made to the text to reflect the corrections mentioned in the Errata listings on page xxvi of Vol. I. and on page viii of Vol. II. The Errata listings are included for completeness.

The quotation marks in THE RIME OF THE ANCYENT MARINERE are exactly as printed in the original.

Inconsistencies in spelling, hyphenation, and accents have been left as in the original.

The following corrections have been made to the text:

page xiii: V. Koskiusko. [MS. Letter, Dec. 17, 1794.] {original is missing period and has closing parenthesis instead of bracket}

page xvii: Youth and Age. [MS. S. T. C.:{original is missing period after C} MSS. (1, 2) Notebook.]