ABSTRACT
Published 1830, with the longer title… Mind Not In Unity With ltself; not reprinted till restored 1884, ‘Juvenilia’. Cp. Remorse(I 98); Perdidi Diem (I 293); and Pierced through (I 513). The doubts precede Arthur Hallam’s death, and anticipate The Two Voices and In Memoriam. T. says: ‘If some kind friend had taken him by the hand and said, “Come, work” — “Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others” (Philippians ii 4) — he might have been a happy man, though sensitive.’ T. quarried it for A Fragment (I 313). Ian Kennedy compares the original title with Wilhelm Meister’s Travels ch. viii (tr. Carlyle); ‘the Confessions of some mind not yet in unity with itself ’ (PQ lvii, 1978, 87); Kennedy mounts a persuasive argument about the ‘extraordinary correspondence between parts of Goethe’s two novels and a number of T.’s poems of the Cambridge period’. In a copy of 1830, T. inserted the titles of additional poems, presumably considering, before 1832, a revised edition of 1830. After Supposed Confessions, he wrote St. Lawrence on the Gridiron (I 324; C. Sturman, TRB iv, 1984, 123–4).
