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Archive of posts published in the tag: Rare Item Analysis

Insights from Wordsworth’s Personal Correspondence

Correspondence from William Wordsworth: To Allen Cunningham, January 8, 1827 To John Abraham Heraud, June 10, 1834 To Francis Merewether, August 7, 1829 Rare Item Analysis: Insights from Wordsworth’s Personal Correspondence by Becca Craigen  By examining a few of Wordsworth’s letters housed in…

Unpublished Letter: Dorothy Wordsworth to Joshua and John James Watson

Unpublished Letter: Dorothy Wordsworth to Joshua and John James Watson, 2 June 1820 Rare Item Analysis: Dorothy Wordsworth’s Letter and Its Significance by Crystal Wu This post shall spotlight Dorothy Wordsworth’s unpublished letter “1820, June 2, Dorothy Wordsworth to Joshua Watson and John…

Two Editions of Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (first edition, second issue 1798) Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, in two volumes (1800) Rare Item Analysis: by Allie Matherne This post will examine and describe the significance…

Transcribed Letters: Tennyson to Roden Noel; Tennyson to Sir Edwin Arnold

Letters: Tennyson to Roden Noel, 13 Feb. 1887 Tennyson to Sir Edwin Arnold, 25 March 1891 Description and Transcriptions: by Mackenzie Sarna In the first letter, Tennyson congratulates poet and essayist Roden Noel on his recently published volume (probably his edition of The…

Coleridge’s Original Intentions Seen through Rare Editions of His Poetry

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poems (second edition, 1797) Sibylline Leaves (first edition, 1817) Christabel; Kubla Khan, a vision; The Pains of Sleep (first edition, 1816) Rare Item Analysis: Coleridge’s Original Intentions Seen through Rare Editions of His Poetry by Karoline DaVee  The purpose of this post…