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COLERIDGE (SAMUEL TAYLOR) Album containing two autograph poems, '[The Ballad of] The Dark Ladie: a fragment', and its companion piece 'Love', signed twice ("S.T. Coleridge" and "S.T.C."), [no place], 30 July 1831
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COLERIDGE (SAMUEL TAYLOR)
Album containing two autograph poems, '[The Ballad of] The Dark Ladie: a fragment', and its companion piece 'Love', signed twice ("S.T. Coleridge" and "S.T.C."), 88 lines of verse, in four-line stanzas, comprising seven stanzas of his poem 'Love' (begins "O leave the Lily on the stem...") as "A Prologue or Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladiè": and the fifteen surviving stanzas of 'The Dark Ladiè' (begins "Beside yon Birch with silver bark..."), with one stanza missing (autograph note of this by Coleridge); two prose memoranda, 13 lines, in which Coleridge explains bibliographical details to the recipient ("The stanzas which in the Collection of my Poems appear under the title, Love...were originally intended and first appeared (viz. in the Morning Post) as "A Prologue or Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladiè: commencing with the following stanzas, omitted in the reconstruction of the poem"); with autograph manuscript insertions by John Bowring and Jeremy Bentham ("Advice from an Uncle to a Nephew", dated 24 October 1831) and writings by other contributors including "To the Memory of the honble Charles Lowther, eldest son of Lord Durham who died in the fourteenth year of his age - September - 1831", 5 pages, green morocco gilt, 4to, [no place], 30 July 1831
Footnotes
'THE DARK LADIÈ... INTERRUPTED BY GRIEFS AND DARKNESS... WAS NEVER COMPLETED': Coleridge had planned three major poems for inclusion in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads of 1798, one of the supreme achievements of the Romantic Movement. These poems were 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 'Christabel' and 'The Ballad of the Dark Ladiè' and are poems of Coleridge's early and finest period. The present manuscript is one of only three known autograph manuscripts of the poem, the others being at Yale and in the Bodleian.
'The Dark Ladiè' itself was first published in the edition of Coleridge's Poems, 1834. As he explains in the second memorandum in the present manuscript, "The DARK LADIÈ, however, was interrupted by griefs & darknesses of a less poetic description, and was never completed. But the first 8 or 9 stanzas may be worth preserving, and as they have never appeared in print and are not likely ever to appear in print, I imagined, they might have some little interest to you".
This album is associated with the Lambton family of co. Durham, most evidently with Lord Durham himself (ennobled 1828) through the poem written on the death of his son in 1831. Perhaps more likely, the album probably derives from Lord Durham's sister-in-law, Lady Hannah Althea Ellice (1785-1832). She is known to have been the recipient of Bentham's 1831 'Advice' pasted into the album (John Bowring, Bentham's Works, 11 volumes, 1838-1843: "On the 24th October he wrote, in a hand that appeared more than ordinarily firm and intelligible, the following passage, which he sent to Lady Hannah Althea Elice [sic], as his autograph").