BIB_ID
108481
Accession number
MA 3684
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
England, 1794.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1972.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 31.6 x 20.1 cm
Notes
Housed with an engraving of Coleridge from a "sketch in oils by Washington Allston."
Two poems are dated : the first to July 6, 1794 and the third poem to July 10, 1794.
Anne Evans was the sister of Mary Evans Todd (1770-1843).
Additional information in the Collection File.
Two poems are dated : the first to July 6, 1794 and the third poem to July 10, 1794.
Anne Evans was the sister of Mary Evans Todd (1770-1843).
Additional information in the Collection File.
Provenance
Purchased at Sotheby sale, 27 June 1972, lot 342.
Summary
A manuscript, in the hand of Anne Evans, of three poems, by or associated with Coleridge during the period of his walking tour in Wales in July 1794. The first poem is untitled and begins "I shall behold far off thy barren crest"; this is a revision by Coleridge of a sonnet by William Lisle Bowles titled "Written at Malvern, July 11, 1793." The second poem is also untitled, begins "Richer than misers o'er their countless hoards," and contains autograph revisions by Coleridge in pencil. The third poem is titled "The Faded Flower" and begins "Ungrateful He, who plucked thee from thy stalk." On the fourth page, there are six lines of verse in an unknown hand and in pencil, which now are faded and partly illegible.
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