David:
> > Indeed and indeed. If it's not too much of a cop-out, maybe we're
faced
> > with two distinct poems?
> >
>
> I was just thinking the same thing. The "Ode" as published in the
> newspaper is the first version of "Dejection: An Ode," and here I
> definitely prefer the final version.
On this rare moment of agreement, perhaps we'd better stop this thread.
But as a perhaps useful piece of information, the Everyman Coleridge (1993)
gives the Letter and the Ode versions on facing pages. The particular
version of the Ode printed is from +Sybilline Leaves+ (1817).
[David, you know the evolution of the "Ode" texts better than me -- is this
the latest version?]
Robin Hamilton
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