ABSTRACT
This chapter reproduces materials relating to RS’s involvement in two collaborative projects with STC: ‘The Devil’s Thoughts’ (later retitled by RS ‘The Devil’s Walk’) and ‘Mohammed’. Although both projects date from the renewal of RS and STC’s personal and professional association in 1799, collaboration had also been a feature of the early days of their relationship in 1794–5. Collaboration also impacted on RS’s shorter poems. As STC observed later, ‘There were 3 or 4 Sonnets of which so many lines were written by Southey, that is agreed to divide them in order to avoid the ridiculous anxiety of attributing lines in the same short poem to two different authors’. The Devil’s Thoughts originated as a ‘Siamese production’ during the time RS and STC spent together in Nether Stowey and Exeter in August–early September 1799.
