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From: "David E. Latane" <[log in to unmask]> > This comes in part from the widespread preference for the young man's > Prelude (1805) over the posthumous version (1850). Thus one gets the first > Morning Chronicle version of "Dejection: An Ode" and the 1798 version of > the "Ancyent Marinere". Both of these are manifestly inferior to the > later versions as poetry. But +all+ the versions of "Dejection" published in Coleridge's lifetime are inferior to the original MS "Dejection: A Letter". It's understandable, I suppose, why Coleridge changes "Sarah" to "Lady", but why oh why does he have to cut all the best lines as well? Robin Hamilton %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%