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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
- Zapolya: A Christmas Tale in two parts. London: Rest Fenner, 1817.
- Paper, ink, leather
8vo (215 x 130 mm). Half-title present (with author's notes). Cloth with leather label.
first edition, with a 2 page letter from coleridge on the half-title and numerous notes throughout.
Coleridge begins his additions on the verso of the original blank with recommended lines for the reader and continues with notes and alterations on six pages of text. His lengthy ALS to J. G. Lockhart on the untrimmed half-title on the subject of Zapolya and "the conditions of mind, body and the estate under which it was commenced, carried on and ended." He includes his "truly Shakespearean" struggles with "wretched cowardice" and the financial woes resulting from his publisher's bankruptcy. Coleridge is candid on his "anxiety to make something that would do for the theatre in its present state" and his disgust in having to do so, "a sin against my own ghost." This reworking of "Winter's Tale" marked Coleridge's first venture with Fenner, who proved even for the day, an unusually dishonest publisher.
Ironically, Lockhart was a contributor to Blackwood's Magazine, and had in fact published in 1817 a hostile review of Coleridge's Biographia Literaria, which included some notable remarks on Keats, and what Lockhart characterized as the "cockney school" of English poetry. Presumably Lockhart's authorship of this essay was unknown to Coleridge.
first edition, with a 2 page letter from coleridge on the half-title and numerous notes throughout.
Coleridge begins his additions on the verso of the original blank with recommended lines for the reader and continues with notes and alterations on six pages of text. His lengthy ALS to J. G. Lockhart on the untrimmed half-title on the subject of Zapolya and "the conditions of mind, body and the estate under which it was commenced, carried on and ended." He includes his "truly Shakespearean" struggles with "wretched cowardice" and the financial woes resulting from his publisher's bankruptcy. Coleridge is candid on his "anxiety to make something that would do for the theatre in its present state" and his disgust in having to do so, "a sin against my own ghost." This reworking of "Winter's Tale" marked Coleridge's first venture with Fenner, who proved even for the day, an unusually dishonest publisher.
Ironically, Lockhart was a contributor to Blackwood's Magazine, and had in fact published in 1817 a hostile review of Coleridge's Biographia Literaria, which included some notable remarks on Keats, and what Lockhart characterized as the "cockney school" of English poetry. Presumably Lockhart's authorship of this essay was unknown to Coleridge.
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