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Edinburgh Critical Editions of Nineteenth-Century Texts

The Collected Poems of Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Edited by Anna Barton

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£100.00

About this book

Provides the first complete scholarly edition of Mary Elizabeth Coleridge’s poetry, including previously unpublished works

  • Provides the first complete scholarly edition of Coleridge’s poetry, including previously unpublished works
  • Draws on unpublished archival material to shed new light on Coleridge’s life
  • Uses unpublished manuscripts to trace the composition and publication history of the poetry
  • Offers detailed literary, bibliographic and biographical annotations that provide opportunities for fresh readings of individual poems

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge was a key figure in the history of both women’s poetry and fin-de-siècle poetics. Coleridge, the great grand niece of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, is best known for her gothic lyrics, ‘The Other Side of a Mirror’ and ‘The Witch’, poems that expose the undercurrents of desire and suffering housed within the Victorian domestic sphere.

This collection provides a new understanding of the rich intellectual, aesthetic and spiritual breadth of Coleridge’s poetry. Drawing on Coleridge’s unpublished letters and manuscripts, it allows readers to trace the fascinating history of the poetry’s composition and to understand its role in the friendships and family ties of this important and often overlooked late-Victorian poet.

Reviews

Anna Barton is the ideal editor of this important authoritative edition of Mary Elizabeth Coleridge’s poems, ostensibly simple lyrics that are by turns song-like, mysterious, violent. In both her superb introduction and notes, Barton illuminates Coleridge’s work in the context of her life, collaborative community, prosody, editors, and kindred poets.
Table of contents

Series Preface
Acknowledgements and Permissions

Introduction
Note on the Text
Abbreviations

The Poems
- Fancy’s Following (1896)
- Fancy’s Guerdon (1897)
- The Garland of New Poetry (1899)
- Poems Published in Journals and Periodicals
- Posthumously Published Poems
- Previously Unpublished Poems

Further Reading
Index

About the author

Anna Barton

Anna Barton is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Sheffield. Previous publications include, The Edinburgh Companion to Nonsense (with James Williams) (2021), Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Liberal Though: Forms of Freedom (2017), In Memoriam: A Reading Guide (2012) and Tennyson’s Name: Identity and Responsibility in the Poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2008).

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