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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
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)

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VOL. I: POEMS
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VOL. II: DRAMATIC WORKS AND APPENDICES
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DRAMATIC WORKS
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EPIGRAMS
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JEUX D'ESPRIT
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FRAGMENTS FROM A NOTEBOOK
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FRAGMENTS
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METRICAL EXPERIMENTS
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1 AN EXPERIMENT FOR A METRE
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2 TROCHAICS
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3 THE PROPER UNMODIFIED DOCHMIUS
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4 IAMBICS
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5 NONSENSE
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6 A PLAINTIVE MOVEMENT
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7 AN EXPERIMENT FOR A METRE
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8 NONSENSE VERSES
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9 NONSENSE
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10 EXPERIMENTS IN METRE
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13 A METRICAL ACCIDENT
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APPENDIX V

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36 TO A CRITIC

WHO EXTRACTED A PASSAGE FROM A POEM WITHOUT ADDING A WORD RESPECTING THE CONTEXT, AND THEN DERIDED IT AS UNINTELLIGIBLE.

Most candid critic, what if I,
By way of joke, pull out your eye,
And holding up the fragment, cry,
‘Ha! ha! that men such fools should be!
Behold this shapeless Dab!—and he
Who own'd it, fancied it could see!’
The joke were mighty analytic,
But should you like it, candid critic?
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