Rethinking the Text of Coleridge's Dejection Ode 1

"The Picture" was severely pruned when it was published in the autumn, in The Morning Post, but, at the same time, Coleridge revived poems written earlier, also under a pseudonym. [...]The Day Dream" (294) takes a tender moment described in the "Letter" and develops it in a less transgressive direction. [...]one might add that the political verses and prose essays that were published in the September-October pages of The Morning Post, as well as "France: An Ode" (174) and an extract from "Fears in Solitude" (175), are closely connected with stanza VII of the Ode. [...]the differences between Letter and Ode are not simply a matter of the omission (suppression?) of private reference. [...]the Dejection Ode came together as a singular project, after a significant interval following the last months at the Stowey cottage, deliberately using verse to advance an understanding of - and control over - a newly-emergent situation.