Excerpt from Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge As a chronological arrangement of Poetry in com. Pleted collections is now beginning to find general favour, pains have been taken to follow this method in the present Edition of S. T. Coleridge's Poetical Works, as far as circumstances permitted - that is to say, as far as the date of composition of each poem was as certainable, and as far as the plan could be carried out without efi'acing the classes into which the Author had himself distributed his most important poetical pub lication, the Sibylline Leaves, namely, poems occa signed BY political events, OR feelings connected with them; love poems; meditative poems IN blank verse; odes and miscellaneous poems. On account of these impediments, together with the fact, that many a poem, such as it appears in its ultimate form, is the growth of different periods, the agreement with cbro nology in this Edition is approximative rather than perfect: yet in the majority of instances the date of each piece has been made out, and its place fixed accordingly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.