THE WORKS ОР SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, PROSE AND VERSE. COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME PHILADELPHIA: HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY FROM THE LIBRARY OF ADVERTISEMENT OF THE AMERICAN PUBLISHERS. In adding to our edition of Coleridge's Poems, his Prose works, we have thought proper to confine the collection to his acknowledged works, as they were published with his own final revision. The "Table Talk," "Letters, Conversations, and Recollections," and the "Literary Remains," published since his decease, afford the most remarkable specimens of what is technically called "book-making," which have appeared in modern times. The most cursory examination of them must satisfy any candid person that they form no exception to the general rule which excludes such compilations from a permanent place in any collection of a great author's works. They are made up chiefly of recollected conversations, imperfect notes of lectures, and notes written on the margins of the books in his library. Not a single complete treatise-not even a finished essay, can be found in the volumes. The reader will therefore not be surprised at their having been wholly excluded from this collection. The same principle has caused the exclusion of several pamphlets relating to local and temporary politics. (ბ) |