SUPPLEMENT TO COLERIDGE BIBLIOGRAPHY
(VOLUMES
I-III) Walter B. and Ann M. Crawford
(The Coleridge Bulleti New Series No 5 (Spring 1995), pp50-58)
This is the first in what is intended to be an annual series
of supplements to Samuel Taylor
Coleridge: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism and Scholarship. Volume
1, 1793-1899, by Richard and Josephine Haven & Maurianne S. Adams,
These supplements will be selective, following the
principles of inclusion and exclusion explained in the Preface to volume III.
In that volume, the enormous amount of eligible material required a cut-off of
most Part I items at the end of the year 1965. Fortunately, from the 1960s
onward the principal annual literary bibliographies became increasingly more
inclusive. On the other hand, even the best of these follow a policy of
excluding some categories of material that we have by policy included ( see
Crawford, Coleridge Bulletin [W
1992-93], 2-4).
Because we believe that new critical editions (complete or
selected) of Coleridge's works should be known, and that the best of them are
essential in Coleridge studies, we include them. Because pedagogical treatments
of Coleridge's works
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are pertinent to the everyday work
of a large majority of students of Coleridge, and are often valuable, we
include them. Because we believe that translations, artists' treatments, and musical
settings are all modes of interpretation that often yield insights into
Coleridge's poems as valuable as the verbal interpretation of conventional literary
criticism, we include them also.
Our basic general rationale is to include post-1965 Part
items essential or important for basic Coleridge research and study, highly
unusual or unique items, and items not likely to be listed in other
bibliographies under Coleridge but containing substantial Coleridge-related
material. More particularly, we include items in the overlapping categories set
forth in detail in the Preface to volume III.
Of Part II items, these supplements will include any new items we learn about in categories 11.5 (continuations, completions), 11.7-1 (music), 11.10 (works of art), and 11.8 (audio and audiovisual productions). Only the more unusual or substantial items in other Part II categories will be included.
Finally, it should be understood that these supplements will
not be based on systematic research on our part. We will list only
serendipitous findings of our own and items about which we are informed by
interested Coleridgeans. These supplements will be made much more extensive and
interesting by such help from others, and their contributions
will be acknowledged as seen below. Copies of items sent to
us (at Clevedon Cottage, 14271 Blackpool Road, Westminster, CA 92693) to
facilitate our annotations will be deposited in the Crawford Coleridge
Collection (abbreviated "CCn" below) in the Special Collections
Department, University Library, California State University, Long Beach, CA
90840, and will be gratefully acknowledged by the Director, University Library
and Learning Resources.
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Items will be arranged alphabetically by author in each
supplement and for easy reference will be numbered in a single sequence running
from supplement to supplement, numbers preceded by "A" for
"Added item." Otherwise, format and style will be as followed in
volume III.
PART I
[Al] ANON. "Love Letters Stored
on an Old Trunk." Daily Telegraph
(30 D 1991), 15.
In a wood on his farm near Scarborough in
From partial clipping from Rosemary E. Coleridge Middleton.
[A2] ANON, ed. The RAM and Other Poems. (
"Republication of [23] selections from" CPW. Only editiorial matter is
"Note" (p.iii ), brief commentary on background of some of the
principal selections.
[A3] GARDNER, Martin,ed. Best remembered Poems. Ed and Annotated
by Martin Gardner. NY:
KK preceded by half-page condensation of C's preface to the
poem and note referring to the Xanadu of Citizen Kane (1941,gv in Part 11.1)
and the parody "The Astrodome" (1966, qv in Part 11.4).
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[A4] ALEXANDER, Caroline. The Way to Xanadu. Weidenfeld & Nicolson
(1993); NY: Knopf (1994), xvi, 206 pp. No index.
A blend of travel writing and literary scholarship. From the
jacket blurb: she "reconstructs the origins of C's haunting images as she
leads us across three continents - from the windswept steppes of Inner
Mongolia, where the great Khan held sway, to North Florida with its 'mighty
fountains,' to Kashmir's mystical and holy cave of ice, to sacred 'Mount Abora'
in Ethiopia."
Review: Annette Kobak, "On the Trail of KK,"
Weekend Telegraph (1 Ja 1994 ),19.
Gift to CCn by Stephen H Ford.
[A5] HUGHES-HALLETT, Penelope. The Wordsworths and the Lakes: Home at
Extensive biographical treatment of C, even beyond his
relationship with the Ws and the Lakes. Profusely illustrated with relevant
maps, facsimiles, drawings, engravings, and color reproductions of mostly
contemporary art, the captions often quoting or otherwise referring to C.
Included are the 1795 Hancock, 1804 Dance, 1804 Northcote, and 1833 Maclise
portraits of C; the Wilkie portrait of Hartley C at age 10; the Edward Nash
drawing of Edith Southey and Sara C as children; facsimiles of C's Prospectus
for The Friend, W's note to Wrangham
on the back of one, and the front cover of The
Friend; a small engraving of Greta Hall (design by W J Palmer); and a
watercolor by Caroline Southey of part of Southey's Greta Hall study with a
distant view of Keswick seen through the south window.
[A6] MOTION, Andrew. Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life. NY:
Farrar Straus Giroux (1993). xx, 570 pp.
Kingsley Amis knew Larkin at
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highbrow sort...' His dislike of
tutorial work grew week by week. 'We paid special attention to the Romantic
poets,' Amis remembers. 'They all signed on as Bill Wordsworth and his Hot Six -W(tmb)
with "Lord" Byron (tpt), Percy Shelley (sop), Johnny Keats (alto and
clt), Sam "Tea" C (pno), Jimmy Hogg(bs), Bob Southey (ds)"' (p
58)
Discovered and book lent by Arnold T Schwab.
[A7] SAVIGNEAU, Josyane. Maguerite
Yourcenar:Inventing a Life. Translated by Joan E Howard. Chicago & L: U of
There exist two versions of the first meeting of French
author Yourcenar and the American academic Grace Frick in a bar in 1937 (both
were born in 1903). Florence Codman gives Grace's version of the
scene:"'Grace was in fact alone in the bar and Marguerite was engaged in
conversation with a man. They were talking about literature, about C in
particular. "They were saying things that were so inaccurate, indeed so
stupid, that I intervened to tell them they had it all wrong," Grace told
me' " (p 115).
Discovered and book lent by Arnold T Schwab.
[A8] BISHOP, Elizabeth. One Art. Letters, selected and Ed by
Robert Giroux. NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux (1994). xxv, 668 pp.
To Randall Jarrell, Pearl Kazin, and Robert Lowell, on 7 Oc,
30 N, and 2 D 1956, reports being completely absorbed by Letters (1956
-C4766) of C, "that adorable man. ...I'd never realized how wonderful the
letters could be in bulk like that, and how contemporary he sounds."
Reading C's account of wet weather, worsening health, and hopeless finances,
"I could scarcely believe that I was dry, had no symptoms of anything at
all,, and was at least solvent... I feel as if I could scarcely be said to
exist, beside C [sic]. ... I
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want very much to write some sort of
piece, mostly about C, but bringing in Fitzgerald's The Crack-Up, Dylan Thomas, Hart Crane, etc. - but don't know
whether I know enough, or have enough material at hand." On 28 My 1975,
she begins her response to a request for advice on how to develop as a
poet:" Read a lot of poetry - all the time - and not 20th century
poetry.Read Campion, Herbert, Pope, Tennyson, C - anything at all almost that's
any good, from the past."
Discovered and book lent by Arnold T Schwab.
[A9] MONETTE, Paul. Last watch of the Night: Essays Too Personal
and Otherwise. NY,
The last of this award-winning author's autobiographical
works tracing his tortuous path from the stigmas of homosexuality and his five-year
struggle with AIDS [he died 10 F 1995].
Interprets C's feelings expressed in This Lime-Tree Bower, and concludes:" Unexpectedly, the loving
contemplation of his friend's adventure restores to him the beauty of his
garden. The sublime is in every leaf, the dappled light on the walnut-tree: No
plot so narrow, be but Nature there. Nothing so exalted in Room 404 of the Park
Hyatt, but I felt the same heartening connection to the gathering of the tribe
[homosexual demonstrators] along the Mall [in
"I remember sitting with Stephen in the music room, reading C to him,' Frost at Midnight.' Craig poked his head
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in, saw right away the lay of the
land, and turned to go - over our protests, especially Stevie's, who'd had his
fill of C"(p 298).
Discovered and book lent by Arnold T Schwab.
[A10] NICHOLS,
With byline:"Celebrity status brings publicity but no
guarantee the house will sell, finds Dixie Nichols." Sketches the
C/Southey link to Greta Hall, parties interested in purchasing it, and the
estate agent's efforts to sell it at the highest price possible.
From clipping from Rosemary E Coleridge Middleton.
[A11] WILSON, Jenny. The
Preface (p 7) refers briefly to C, quoting "C's 'varied
scene/ of wood, hill,dale, and sparkling brook between'." C on pp 8-9
(with painting), 12 (photo),34 (photo),46-7, 70-1,74-5,80-1,82-3 (photo),88-9
(drawing),and 98-9.
PART II.4 PARODIES AND IMITATIONS
[Al2] KENT, David A, and D R Ewen,
eds. Romantic Parodies,1797-1831.
Rutherford,
C in introductions to Hogg's Isabelle (pp 129ff); extracts from Peacock's Nightmare Abbey (pp 156ff); Moir's Christabel, Part Third (pp 185ff); J H Reynolds, The Dead
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Asses (pp 203ff); Anon, The Nose-Drop: A Physiological Ballad
(pp 249ff). Index also enters: "parodies of:self-parody, 32-33; ,in
"Bards of the
[A13] PRITCHETT, Oliver. "The
Hype Is All Around." Sunday
Telegraph (25 Jy 1993), 26. II.
"There is one thing that does not ring true today about
C's poem The RAM.... The obvious flaw
is that the Wedding Guest would instantly recognize that in the grey-beard loon
he was looking at a highly marketable media package. ... I have now written a
companion piece to C's poem, to help people see the story in a clearer
perspective. Mine is called The Rime of the Ancient Publicist. Not, of course,
that he is all that ancient, but he works for the august organisation Xanadu
International Management Inc."
Author then gives prose synopsis of his parody-imitation, beginning:" One day, on his way to a showbusiness wedding at the Hello! Chapel of Deep Happiness and Fulfilment, he catches sight of the ragged, wild-eyed Mariner loitering in the street. 'Hang on a sec,' he says to his chums. 'I bet that old cove has an interesting tale to tell.'// He goes over to the man, who wants nothing to do with him. He takes him by the elbow in a friendly way, but the Mariner cries out:'Hold off! unhand me, grey-toppered dude!'// Pressed by the Publicist, the Mariner makes a reluctant admission. 'There was a ship,' quoth he.// Now the Publicist has the Mariner's attention. He holds him with his glittering offer. He proposes a major newspaper serialisation -'My Voyage to Hell and Back: Lone Mariner's Astonishing Story.' He suggests selling an exclusive interview to breakfast television." (Cartoon shows the AM seated in front of the TV
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interviewer, who asks, "
Ancient Mariner, what was your worst moment?") Synopsis continues with
considerable detail and ends:" At the end of my version, one of the other
wedding guests meets the Mariner in the street.// 'God save thee, ancient
Mariner!/ From the fiends that plague like this!/ Why look'st thou
so?"With my cross-bow/ I shot the Publicist'."
From clipping from Rosemary E Coleridge Middleton.
PART
II. 7-1 MUSICAL SETTINGS OF COLERIDGE
[A14] LLOYD, Richard. Dormi,
Jesu. SATB. Text: English paraphrase by STC, Music: Richard Lloyd.
Rattlesden, Bury St. Edmunds,
C's The Virgin's
Cradle-hymn. English words printed below the Latin words, without variants.
Sopranos sing lines 1-3, satb sing 1-3; sopranos sing 4-6, satb sing 4-6;
sopranos conclude with 1-3. With pf accompaniment.
Gift to CCn by Stephen H Ford.