Poetry in its many guises is at the center of Coleridge's multifarious interests, and this new edition of his complete poetical works marks the pinnacle of the Bollingen Collected Coleridge. The three parts of Volume 16 confirm and expand the sense of the Coleridge who has emerged over the past half-century, with implications for English Romantic writing as a whole and will interest historians and editorial theorists, as well as readers and students of poetry. The first part presents the reading texts of 706 poems in chronological sequence. Its blend of newly discovered and newly collected poems, presented in light of all known evidence and where practicable in unrevised forms, offers an original Coleridge: less inhibited by Victorian ideas about what poetry should be, moving easily and productively between genres and levels of seriousness. In texts that remained fluid and exploratory to the end, Coleridge alternates between lyric and satire, prophecy and conversation, symbol and allegory. Each poem is accompanied by a headnote and commentary that together provide its historical-biographical context and offer key textual variants.The book opens with an introduction and chronologic