BIB_ID
402405
Accession number
MA 1581.47
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
England, before 1825.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 22.5 x 18.5 cm
Notes
Coleridge has signed the manuscript twice: next to the title "Youth and Age" and again beneath the second poem.
This manuscript was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Coleridge) 24.
This manuscript is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall and to other members of the Beaumont family. See collection-level record for more information (MA 1581.1-297).
This manuscript was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Coleridge) 24.
This manuscript is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall and to other members of the Beaumont family. See collection-level record for more information (MA 1581.1-297).
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Being a draft of "Youth and Age" undated and without the final stanza of thirteen lines which appear with the poem in the published versions of 1825, 1829 and 1832; with an added entry at the end "Lines written extempore on hearing a Song in which were the words "lilied Brow" and following a six-line stanza with the first line, "Tis not the lilied Brow, I prize."
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