The second volume of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's complete poetical works gathers his dramatic writing and appendices, including The Fall of Robespierre and Osorio, with textual and bibliographical notes by Ernest Hartley Coleridge. It offers a view of Coleridge's verse drama and Romantic imagination, making it rewarding to hear for readers interested in his theater.
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Transcriber's Notes: Greek and Hebrew words that may not display correctly in all browsers are transliterated in the text using hovers like this: βιβλος. Position your mouse over the line to see the transliteration. Some diacritical characters may not display correctly in all browsers. Words using these characters are underlined in the text like this. Position your mouse over the word to read the explanation. Hemistitches, metrical lines shared between speakers or verses, may not display properly in all browsers. The best way to see appropriately spaced hemistitches is by looking at a text version of this book. A few typographical errors have been corrected. They have been marked with hovers like this. Position your mouse over the underline to read what appears in the original. A complete list of corrections as well as other Transcriber's Notes follows the text. Click on the page number to see an image of the page. THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS
OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE INCLUDING POEMS AND VERSIONS OF POEMS NOW PUBLISHED FOR THE FIRST TIME EDITED WITH TEXTUAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES BY ERNEST HARTLEY COLERIDGE M.A., HON. F.R.S.L. IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. II: DRAMATIC WORKS AND APPENDICES Greek ESTHESE with initials STC OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1912
HENRY FROWDE, M.A. PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD LONDON, EDINBURGH, NEW YORK TORONTO AND MELBOURNE CONTENTS OF VOL. II DRAMATIC WORKS 1794 PAGE The Fall of Robespierre. An Historic Drama 495 1797 Osorio. A Tragedy 518 1800 The Piccolomini; or, The First Part of Wallenstein. A Drama translated from the German of Schiller. Preface to the First Edition 598 The Piccolomini 600 The Death of Wallenstein. A Tragedy in Five Acts. Preface of the Translator to the First Edition 724 The Death of Wallenstein 726 1812 Remorse. Preface 812 Prologue 816 Epilogue 817 Remorse. A Tragedy in Five Acts 819