Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Modern Philology

Publisher

The University of Chicago

Publication Date

5-1987

Volume

84

Issue

4

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | English Language and Literature

Abstract

The poem published here is transcribed from an original holograph manuscript in the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library. The poem is a fragmentary verse translation of the Song of Deborah (from Judges 5). Its existence has been known to Coleridge scholars for several years, and its authenticity seems unquestionable. Kathleen Coburn mentions it in her edition of Coleridge's Notebooks: "The ms was with Coleridge's 'German Journal' of 1798-9 on acquisition by the library, but whether only accidentally there is not known. It appears to be fairly early." To this remark I can add my own observation that the poem is written in a large hand characteristic of the early Coleridge; it is a fair copy that breaks off (in true Porlockian fashion) halfway through the song.

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©1987 The University of Chicago

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