On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Robin Hamilton wrote:
> 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
Robin,
The 1817 version is the last, though there may have been some minor
variations in the rest of the reprintings in STC's life. And as for
the "Ode to Autumn," we do get proprietorial!
What I shriek at is seeing "What Tennyson said in "Locksley Hall" . . .
Best,
David
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