From the preface: "The aim and purport of this edition of the poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge is to provide the general reader with an authoritative list of the poems hitherto published, and at the same time to furnish the student with an exhaustive summary of various readings derived from published and unpublished sources viz. (1) the successive editions issued by the author, (2) holograph MSS., or (3) contemporary transcriptions. Occasion has been taken ...
