His First Collection
COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor.
Poems on various Subjects, by S. T. Coleridge, late of Jesus College Cambridge [and Charles Lamb and Robert Southey] … London, G. G. and J. Robinsons [sic], and Bristol, J. Cottle, 1796.
8vo, pp. [iii]–xvi, 188, [4], with the terminal errata and advertisement leaves, but wanting the half-title; a fine copy, outer and lower edges partly untrimmed, top edge gilt, in mid-nineteenth-century polished calf by Bedford, spine gilt; front joint repaired; anonymous twentieth-century bookplate.
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Poems on various Subjects, by S. T. Coleridge, late of Jesus College Cambridge [and Charles Lamb and Robert Southey] …
First edition of Coleridge’s first collection of verse, published in April 1796. In the Preface, Coleridge explains that ‘the Effusions signed C. L. were written by Mr. Charles Lamb, of the India House’ and that ‘the first half of Effusion XV. was written by the Author of “Joan of Arc” [i.e. Southey]’.
‘Some of the verses allude to an intended emigration to America on the scheme of an abandonment of individual property’, Coleridge explains here, alluding to the abortive Pantisocratic scheme that had occupied him and Southey for much of 1794, and part of 1795 after Coleridge’s move to Bristol. Other Effusions include the sonnet series Coleridge had published in the Morning Chronicle in late 1794, and a number of poems are addressed to Sara Fricker, whose marriage to Coleridge was perhaps the most serious result of Pantisocracy.
ESTC T125613; Hayward 206; Sabin 14322.