The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 8 (of 8)

Chapter XIII: Introduction: And Chorus (1)

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For thirst of power that Heaven disowns,
For temples, towers, and thrones,
Too long insulted by the Spoiler’s shock,
Indignant Europe cast
Her stormy foe at last
To reap the whirlwind on a Libyan rock.

SOLO.--TENOR

War is passion’s basest game
Madly played to win a name;
Up starts some tyrant, Earth and Heaven to dare;
The servile million bow;
But will the lightning glance aside to spare
The Despot’s laurelled brow?

CHORUS

War is mercy, glory, fame,
Waged in Freedom’s holy cause;
Freedom, such as Man may claim
Under God’s restraining laws.
Such is Albion’s fame and glory:
Let rescued Europe tell the story.

RECIT. (_accompanied_).--CONTRALTO

But lo, what sudden cloud has darkened all
The land as with a funeral pall?
The Rose of England suffers blight,
The flower has drooped, the Isle’s delight,
Flower and bud together fall--
A Nation’s hopes lie crushed in Claremont’s desolate hall.

AIR.--SOPRANO

Time a chequered mantle wears;--
Earth awakes from wintry sleep;
Again the Tree a blossom bears,--
Cease, Britannia, cease to weep!
Hark to the peals on this bright May-morn!
They tell that your future Queen is born!

SOPRANO SOLO AND CHORUS

A Guardian Angel fluttered
Above the Babe, unseen;
One word he softly uttered--
It named the future Queen:
And a joyful cry through the Island rang,
As clear and bold as the trumpet’s clang,
As bland as the reed of peace--
“VICTORIA be her name!”
For righteous triumphs are the base
Whereon Britannia rests her peaceful fame.

QUARTETT

Time, in his mantle’s sunniest fold,
Uplifted in his arms the child;
And, while the fearless Infant smiled,
Her happier destiny foretold:--
“Infancy, by Wisdom mild,
Trained to health and artless beauty;
Youth, by Pleasure unbeguiled
From the lore of lofty duty;
Womanhood in pure renown,
Seated on her lineal throne:
Leaves of myrtle in her Crown,
Fresh with lustre all their own.
Love, the treasure worth possessing
More than all the world beside,
This shall be her choicest blessing,
Oft to royal hearts denied.”

RECIT. (_accompanied_).--BASS

That eve, the Star of Brunswick shone
With stedfast ray benign
On Gotha’s ducal roof, and on
The softly flowing Leine;
Nor failed to gild the spires of Bonn,
And glittered on the Rhine.--
Old Camus too on that prophetic night
Was conscious of the ray;
And his willows whispered in its light,
Not to the Zephyr’s sway,
But with a Delphic life, in sight
Of this auspicious day:

CHORUS

This day, when Granta hails her chosen Lord,
And proud of her award,
Confiding in the Star serene
Welcomes the Consort of a happy Queen.

AIR.--CONTRALTO

Prince, in these Collegiate bowers,
Where Science, leagued with holier truth,
Guards the sacred heart of youth,
Solemn monitors are ours.
These reverend aisles, these hallowed towers,
Raised by many a hand august,
Are haunted by majestic Powers,
The memories of the Wise and Just,
Who, faithful to a pious trust,
Here, in the Founder’s spirit sought
To mould and stamp the ore of thought
In that bold form and impress high
That best betoken patriot loyalty.
Not in vain those Sages taught.--
True disciples, good as great,
Have pondered here their country’s weal,
Weighed the Future by the Past,
Learned how social frames may last,
And how a Land may rule its fate
By constancy inviolate,
Though worlds to their foundations reel,
The sport of factious Hate or godless Zeal.

AIR.--BASS

Albert, in thy race we cherish
A Nation’s strength that will not perish
While England’s sceptered Line
True to the King of Kings is found;
Like that Wise[430] Ancestor of thine
Who threw the Saxon shield o’er Luther’s life,
When first, above the yells of bigot strife,
The trumpet of the Living Word
Assumed a voice of deep portentous sound
From gladdened Elbe to startled Tiber heard.

CHORUS

What shield more sublime
E’er was blazoned or sung?
And the PRINCE whom we greet
From its Hero is sprung.
Resound, resound the strain
That hails him for our own!
Again, again, and yet again;
For the Church, the State, the Throne!--
And that Presence fair and bright,
Ever blest wherever seen,
Who deigns to grace our festal rite,
The pride of the Islands, VICTORIA THE QUEEN!

[429] This “Ode” was printed and sung at Cambridge on the occasion of the installation of His Royal Highness Prince Albert as Chancellor of the University. It was published in the newspapers of the following day, as “written for the occasion by the Poet Laureate, by royal command.”

There is no evidence, however, that Wordsworth wrote a single line of it. Dr. Cradock used to attribute the authorship to the poet’s nephew, the late Bishop of Lincoln. It is much more likely that Edward Quillinan was the author of the whole, although Christopher Wordsworth may have revised it. Mr. Aubrey de Vere wrote to me, November 12, 1893, “It was from Miss Fenwick that I heard that the Laureate poem (_Ode, etc._), was written by Quillinan, at Wordsworth’s request, he having himself wholly failed in a reluctant attempt to write one. If he _had_ written it, I doubt much whether he would ever have admitted it to a place among his works, for he did not hold ‘Laureate Odes’ in honour, and had only taken the Laureateship on the condition that he was to write none. Tennyson made the same condition: which could not, of course, interfere with either poet addressing lines to the Queen, if they felt specially moved from within to do so.”

Miss Frances Arnold writes, “Miss Quillinan was my authority for saying that the Cambridge Ode had been written by her father, owing to the deep depression in which Wordsworth then was.”--ED.

[430] Frederic the Wise, Elector of Saxony (1847).

TO MISS SELLON

This sonnet exists, _in Wordsworth’s handwriting_; but it is doubtful whether it was written by him, or not. Possibly Mr. Quillinan wrote it. The place, and the date of composition--given in MS.--are, “Ambleside, 22nd February, 1849.” Miss Sellon was a relation of the late Count Cavour.--ED.

The vestal priestess of a sisterhood who knows
No self, and whom the selfish scorn--
She seeks a wilderness of weed and thorn,
And, undiverted from the blessed mood
By keen reproach or blind ingratitude, 5
A wreath she twines of blossoms lowly born--
An amaranthine crown of flowers forlorn--
And hangs her garland on the Holy Rood.
Sister of Mercy, bravely hast thou won
From men who winnow charity from Faith 10
The Pharasaic sneer that treats as dross
The works by faith ordained. Pursue thy path,
Till, at the last, thou hear the voice--“Well done,
Thou good and faithful servant of the Cross.”

“THE WORSHIP OF THIS SABBATH MORN”

BY DOROTHY WORDSWORTH

These lines were published in _The Monthly Packet_, in July 1891, where the following note is appended by Miss Christabel Coleridge:--“Written _circa_ 1852-3, and given to Mrs. Derwent Coleridge.” But Miss Edith Coleridge, and Mr. E. H. Coleridge, tell me that they think they “belong to an earlier period.” Mr. Coleridge writes, “I have heard Miss Wordsworth repeat the lines now printed, seated in her arm-chair, on the terrace at Rydal Mount.”--ED.

The worship of this Sabbath morn,
How sweetly it begins!
With the full choral hymn of birds
Mingles no sad lament for sins.

Alas! my feet no more may join 5
The cheerful Sabbath train;
But if I inwardly lament,
Oh! may a will subdued all grief restrain.

No prisoner am I on this couch,
My mind is free to roam, 10
And leisure, peace, and loving friends,
Are the best treasures of an earthly home.

Such gifts are mine, then why deplore
The body’s slow decay?
A warning mercifully sent 15
To fix my hopes upon a surer stay.

A WORDSWORTH BIBLIOGRAPHY

I.--_GREAT BRITAIN_

EDITIONS PUBLISHED DURING WORDSWORTH’S LIFETIME

In the Bibliographies by Mr. Tutin and Professor Dowden there are numerous and valuable details as to these editions, which it is unnecessary to reproduce here.--ED.

1793. AN EVENING WALK. An Epistle; in verse. Addressed to a Young Lady, from the Lakes of the North of England. By W. Wordsworth, B. A., of St. John’s, Cambridge. London: printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul’s Church-yard. 4to.

1793. DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES. In verse. Taken during a pedestrian tour in the Italian, Grison, Swiss, and Savoyard Alps. By W. Wordsworth, B. A., of St. John’s, Cambridge. Loca pastorum deserta atque otia dia.--_Lucret._ Castella in tumulis--Et longe saltus lateque vacantes.--_Virgil._ London: printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul’s Churchyard. 4to.

1798. LYRICAL BALLADS, with a few other Poems. Bristol: printed by Biggs and Cottle; for T. N. Longman, Paternoster-Row, London. 8vo.

1798. LYRICAL BALLADS, with a few other Poems. London: printed for J. & A. Arch, Gracechurch Street. 8vo.[431]

1800. LYRICAL BALLADS, with other Poems. In two volumes. By W. Wordsworth. Quam nihil ad genium. Papiniane, tuum! Vol. I. Second Edition. [Vol. II.] London: printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, Paternoster-Row, by Biggs and Co., Bristol. 8vo.[432]

1802. LYRICAL BALLADS, with Pastoral and other Poems. In two volumes. By W. Wordsworth. Quam nihil ad genium, Papiniane, tuum! Third Edition. London: printed for T. N. Longman & O. Rees, Paternoster-Row, by Biggs and Cottle, Crane-Court, Fleet-Street. 8vo.[433]

1805. LYRICAL BALLADS, with Pastoral and other Poems. In two volumes. By W. Wordsworth. Quam nihil ad genium, Papiniane, tuum! Fourth Edition. London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, by R. Taylor and Co., 38 Shoe Lane. 8vo.[434]

1807. POEMS, in two volumes, By William Wordsworth, Author of the Lyrical Ballads. _Posterius graviore sono tibi Musa loquetur Nostra, dabunt cum securos mihi tempora fructus._ Vol. I. [Vol. II.] London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-Row. 12mo.

1809. CONCERNING THE RELATIONS OF GREAT BRITAIN, SPAIN, AND PORTUGAL, TO EACH OTHER, AND TO THE COMMON ENEMY, AT THIS CRISIS; and specifically as affected by the Convention of Cintra: _The whole brought to the test of those principles by which alone the Independence and Freedom of Nations can be Preserved or Recovered_. Qui didicit patriae quid debeat;--Quod sit conscripti, quod judicis officium; quae Partes in bellum missi ducis. By William Wordsworth. London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-Row. 8vo.

1814. THE EXCURSION, being a portion of The Recluse, a Poem. By William Wordsworth. London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row. 4to.[435]

1815. POEMS BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author. With additional Poems, a new Preface, and a Supplementary Essay. In two volumes. Vol. I. [Vol. II.] London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row. 8vo.[436]

1815. THE WHITE DOE OF RYLSTONE; OR, THE FATE OF THE NORTONS. A Poem. By William Wordsworth. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, by James Ballantyne and Co., Edinburgh. 4to.[437]

1816. A LETTER TO A FRIEND OF ROBERT BURNS: occasioned by an intended republication of the account of the Life of Burns, by Dr. Currie; and of the Selection made by him from his Letters. By William Wordsworth. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row. 8vo.[438]

1816. THANKSGIVING ODE, January 18, 1816. With other short Pieces, chiefly referring to Recent Public Events. By William Wordsworth. London: Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row. 8vo.

1818. TWO ADDRESSES TO THE FREEHOLDERS OF WESTMORELAND. Kendal: Printed by Airy and Bellingham. 8vo.

1819. PETER BELL, a Tale in Verse, by William Wordsworth. London: Printed by Strahan and Spottiswoode. Printers-Street; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row. 8vo.[439]

1819. PETER BELL, A Tale in Verse, by William Wordsworth. Second Edition. London: Printed by Strahan and Spottiswoode, Printers-Street; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row. 8vo.

1819. THE WAGGONER, a Poem, to which are added, Sonnets. By William Wordsworth. “What’s in a NAME?” “Brutus will start a Spirit as soon as Cæsar,” London: Printed by Strahan & Spottiswoode, Printers-Street; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, Paternoster-Row. 8vo.[440]

1820. THE RIVER DUDDON, a Series of Sonnets; Vaudracour and Julia: and other Poems. To which is annexed, a Topographical Description of the Country of the Lakes, in the North of England. By William Wordsworth. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row. 8vo.[441]

1820. THE MISCELLANEOUS POEMS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. In four volumes. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row. 12mo.[442]

1820. THE EXCURSION, being a portion of The Recluse, A Poem. By William Wordsworth. Second Edition. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row. 8vo.

1822. MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820. By William Wordsworth. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row. 8vo.

1822. ECCLESIASTICAL SKETCHES. By William Wordsworth. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row. 8vo.[443]

1822. A DESCRIPTION OF THE SCENERY OF THE LAKES IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. Third Edition (now first published separately), with additions, and illustrative remarks upon the Scenery of the Alps. By William Wordsworth. London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row. 12mo.[444]

1827. THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. In five volumes. London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Paternoster-Row. 12mo.[445]

1828. THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. Complete in one volume. Paris: Published by A. and W. Galignani, No. 18, Rue Vivienne. 8vo.[446]

1831. SELECTIONS FROM THE POEMS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, ESQ., chiefly for the use of Schools and Young Persons. London: Edward Moxon, 64 New Bond Street. 12mo.[447]

1832. THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. A new Edition. In four volumes. London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, Paternoster-Row. 8vo.[448]

SELECTIONS FROM THE POEMS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, ESQ., chiefly for the use of Schools and young persons. A New Edition. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. MDCCCXXXIV.

The Memorial Lines “Written after the Death of Charles Lamb” were issued privately, without title or date, probably late in 1835, or early in 1836. 8vo. pp. 7.

1835. YARROW REVISITED, AND OTHER POEMS. By William Wordsworth.

Poets … dwell on earth
To clothe whate’er the soul admires and loves;
With language and with numbers.--AKENSIDE.

London: printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, Paternoster-Row; and Edward Moxon, Dover Street. 12mo.

1835. A GUIDE THROUGH THE DISTRICT OF THE LAKES IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND, with a Description of the Scenery, &c. For the use of Tourists and Residents. Fifth Edition, with considerable additions. By William Wordsworth. Kendal: published by Hudson and Nicholson; and in London by Longman & Co., Moxon, and Whittaker and Co. 12mo.

1836. YARROW REVISITED, AND OTHER POEMS. By William Wordsworth.

Poets … dwell on earth
To clothe whate’er the soul admires and loves;
With language and with numbers.--AKENSIDE.

Second Edition. London: printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, Paternoster-Row; and Edward Moxon, Dover Street. 8vo.[449]

THE EXCURSION. A Poem. By William Wordsworth. A New Edition. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. MDCCCXXXVI. 8vo.[450]

THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. A New Edition. In six volumes. Vol. I. (Vol. II.-VI.) London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. MDCCCXXXVI.-MDCCCXXXVII. Fcap. 8vo.[451]

THE SONNETS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. Collected in one volume, with a few additional ones, now first published. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. MDCCCXXXVIII. 8vo.[452]

YARROW REVISITED; AND OTHER POEMS. By William Wordsworth. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. MDCCCXXXIX. 18mo.[453]

POEMS, CHIEFLY OF EARLY AND LATE YEARS; including The Borderers, a Tragedy. By William Wordsworth. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. MDCCCXLII. 8vo.[454]

1843. SELECT PIECES FROM THE POEMS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. London: James Burns. Sq. 12mo.[455]

1844. KENDAL AND WINDERMERE RAILWAY. Two Letters, re-printed from the Morning Post. Revised, with additions. Kendal: printed by R. Branthwaite and Son.

1845. THE POEMS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, D.C.L., Poet Laureate, etc. etc. A New Edition. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. MDCCCXLV. Royal 8vo.[456]

1847. ODE, performed in the Senate-House, Cambridge, on the sixth of July, M.DCCC.XLVII. At the first commencement after the Installation of his Royal Highness the Prince Albert, Chancellor of the University. Cambridge: printed at the University Press. 4to.

1847. ODE on the installation of His Royal Highness Prince Albert as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. By William Wordsworth, Poet Laureate. London: Printed, by permission, by Vizetelley Brothers & Co. Published by George Bell, Fleet Street. 4to.

THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, D.C.L., Poet Laureate, etc. etc. In six volumes. A New Edition. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. MDCCCXLIX.-MDCCCL. 12mo.[457]

[431] These two editions of 1798 are the same; but as Cottle sold to Arch most of the copies printed, the majority bear the name of Arch as publisher.

Four of the poems were by S.T. Coleridge, viz. _The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere_; _The Foster-Mother’s Tale_; _The Nightingale, a Conversational Poem_; and _The Dungeon_.--ED.

[432] The first volume of this edition is a reprint of the editions of 1798, _The Convict_ being left out. In it there is one poem by Coleridge entitled _Love_, which was not in the edition of 1798. The poems in the second volume are new. The preface to Volume 1. contains Wordsworth’s poetical theory in its original form. This preface was included in the 1802 and 1805 editions of Lyrical Ballads, and also--in an expanded form--in almost every subsequent edition of his poems.--ED.

[433] This was almost a reproduction of the two volumes of 1800, with a few variations of text. The preface, however, was much enlarged. The poem _A Character in the Antithetical Manner_ was left out, also Coleridge’s poem _The Dungeon_.--ED.

[434] A reprint of the edition of 1802, with slight variations of text.--ED.

[435] The _Essay on Epitaphs_ inserted in the notes to this volume was originally published in _The Friend_, February 22, 1810.--ED.

[436] This was the first edition of Wordsworth’s Poems arranged by him under distinctive headings, viz. “Poems referring to the Period of Childhood,” “Juvenile Pieces,” “Poems founded on the Affections,” “Poems of the Fancy,” “Poems of the Imagination,” “Poems proceeding from Sentiment and Reflection,” “Miscellaneous Sonnets,” “Sonnets, etc., dedicated to Liberty,” “Poems on the Naming of Places,” “Inscriptions,” “Poems referring to the Period of Old Age,” “Epitaphs and Elegiac Poems,” “Ode, Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Childhood.” In it, he gave _dates_ to his poems.

In Volume I. is an engraving by Mr. Bromley from a picture by Sir George Beaumont; Volume II. has an engraving by Mr. Reynolds from Sir George’s picture of Peele Castle in a storm.--ED.

[437] The poem _The Force of Prayer; or, the Founding of Bolton Priory_ follows the _White Doe of Rylstone_; and the volume contains an engraving by Mr. Bromley from a painting of Bolton Abbey by Sir George Beaumont.--ED.

[438] The “Friend” was Mr. James Gray, Edinburgh.--ED.

[439] The volume contains an engraving by Mr. Bromley from a painting by Sir George Beaumont. In addition to _Peter Bell_, this volume contained four sonnets.--ED.

[440] This volume was dedicated to Charles Lamb.--ED.

[441] In 1820 the four separate publications, _The Waggoner_, etc., _Thanksgiving Ode_, etc., _Peter Bell_, etc., and _The River Duddon, Vaudracour and Julia_, etc., were bound up together with their separate title-pages, and issued under the title, _Poems by William Wordsworth_, making Volume III. of the _Miscellaneous Poems_.--ED.

[442] Each of these volumes contained an engraving from a picture by Sir George Beaumont. They were “Lucy Gray,” “Peter Bell,” “The White Doe of Rylstone,” and “Peele Castle.” All had appeared in previous editions. The “Advertisement” states that this edition contains the whole of the published poems of the Author, with the exception of _The Excursion_, and that a few Sonnets “are now first published.”

It is worthy of note that, in this edition, Wordsworth for the first time abandoned the practice of putting in an apostrophe, instead of a vowel letter, in words ending with “ed,” and in similar cases of contraction.--ED.

[443] Wordsworth added to this series of Sonnets, in the one-volume edition of 1845 which contained 132. In the first edition, there were 102 sonnets.--ED.

[444] This originally appeared as an Introduction to Wilkinson’s _Select Views in Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire_, which was published in 1810. In 1820 it was included (see No. 18) in _The River Duddon: A Series of Sonnets_. In 1823 a fourth edition appeared which was a reprint of that of 1822.--ED.

[445] To this edition Wordsworth prefixed the following “Advertisement”:--“In these volumes will be found the whole of the Author’s published poems, for the first time collected in a uniform edition, with several new pieces interspersed.”--ED.

[446] In this edition--copied without authority, from the poet or his publishers, and with many errata, from the issue of 1827--there is an engraving of Wordsworth by Mr. Wedgewood, after the portrait by Carruthers, now in the possession of Mr. Hutchinson at Kimbolton. The Galignani edition of Southey is even worse; three poems, not by Southey, being included in it.--ED.

[447] The editor of these selections was Joseph Hine.--ED.

[448] The “Advertisement” to this edition is as follows:--“The contents of the last edition in five volumes are compressed into the present of four, with some additional pieces reprinted from miscellaneous publications.”--ED.

[449] As this volume (No. 32 in the list) was the last printed for the Messrs. Longman, and issued by that firm and by Mr. Moxon jointly, it is desirable to mention here, in a footnote, that, with the exception of _The Evening Walk_ and _Descriptive Sketches_ (which were published by J. Johnson) every one of Wordsworth’s works from 1798 to 1836--thirty in number--were introduced to the world by the Messrs. Longman. It is questionable if any firm has ever had a similar “record” in connection with the works of any great poet.--ED.

[450] A reprint of the sixth volume of the 1836-37 edition. It was again reprinted in 1841, 1844, and 1847.--ED.

[451] Volumes one and two are dated 1836; the remaining four 1837. This edition was stereotyped. It was reprinted in 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1846, 1849, etc.; and some of the reprints contain slight variations of text, etc. All the editions issued after 1841 include the volume, _Poems of Early and Late Years_ (see No. 37) as a seventh volume. After 1850 _The Prelude_ was added as an eighth volume.

In the first volume of this edition there is a steel engraving by Mr. Watt of a portrait of the Poet by W. Pickersgill, which is in St. John’s College, Cambridge. This engraving was reproduced in the editions of 1840, 1841, and following ones.--ED.

[452] This edition includes (as its “Advertisement” tells us) “twelve new Sonnets which were composed while the sheets were going through the press.”--ED.

[453] Mr. Tutin writes in his Wordsworth Bibliography:--“This Pocket edition of _Yarrow Revisited_, etc., is the third separate issue of the Poem. It seems to have been intended as a supplementary volume to the four vol. edition of 1832, as the sheets of it are all imprinted ‘Vol. v.,’ but I have no direct proof that it was ever so issued.”--ED.

[454] In his “Advertisement” the Author states that about one-third of the Poem _Guilt and Sorrow_ was written in 1794, and was published in the year 1798 under the title of _The Female Vagrant_.--ED.

[455] This volume is dedicated “To her Most Sacred Majesty, Victoria.”--ED.

[456] Frequently republished. After 1851 _The Prelude_ was included. The edition of 1869 has “nine additional poems,” dated 1846. All the editions which I have seen contain an engraving by Mr. Finden from the bust of Wordsworth by Chantrey--the original of which is at Coleorton Hall--and a picture of Rydal Mount engraved by Mr. House after Finden. Professor Dowden tells us that, in some later editions “the Pickersgill portrait, engraved by J. Skelton, replaces Chantrey’s bust.” In this edition, as in that of 1815, Wordsworth gave dates to his poems.--ED.

[457] Volumes I. and II. are dated 1849, and Volumes III.-VI. 1850. _The Excursion_ formed the sixth volume. It was reprinted separately in 1851, 1853, and 1857.--ED.

EDITIONS OF THE POEMS, AND OF SELECTIONS FROM THEM, PUBLISHED AFTER THE POET’S DEATH.

1850. THE PRELUDE, OR GROWTH OF A POET’S MIND; an Autobiographical Poem; by William Wordsworth. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. Demy 8vo.

1851. THE PRELUDE, OR GROWTH OF A POET’S MIND; an Autobiographical Poem; By William Wordsworth. Second Edition. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. Fcap. 8vo.

1855. SELECT PIECES FROM THE POEMS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. London: Edward Moxon. Sq. 12mo.

1857. THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. In six volumes. A new Edition. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. 8vo.[458]

THE EARLIER POEMS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. Corrected as in the latest Editions. With Preface, and Notes showing the text as it stood in 1815. By William Johnston. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. Fcap. 8vo.

1859. THE DESERTED COTTAGE. By William Wordsworth. Illustrated with twenty-one designs by Birket Foster, J. Wolf, and John Gilbert, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. London: George Routledge and Co., Farringdon Street. New York: 18 Beekman Street. Small 4to.[459]

POEMS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. Selected and Edited by Robert Aris Willmott, Incumbent of Bear Wood. Illustrated with one hundred designs by Birket Foster, J. Wolf, and John Gilbert, Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. London: George Routledge and Co., Farringdon Street. New York: 18 Beekman Street, MDCCCLIX. Small 4to.

THE WHITE DOE OF RYLSTONE; OR, THE FATE OF THE NORTONS. By William Wordsworth. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. Small 4to.[460]

PASSAGES FROM “THE EXCURSION,” by William Wordsworth, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Agnes Fraser. London: published by Paul and Dominic Colnaghi and Co., publishers to Her Majesty, 13 and 14 Pall Mall East. Oblong 4to.[461]

THE WHITE DOE OF RYLSTONE; OR, THE FATE OF THE NORTONS. With Illustrations by Birket Foster, and others. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts.

PASTORAL POEMS, by William Wordsworth. London: Sampson, Low, etc.

1864. THE SELECT POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. Copyright Edition. In two volumes. Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz.[462]

1865. A SELECTION FROM THE WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, Poet Laureate. Moxon’s Miniature Poets. Selected and arranged by Francis Turner Palgrave. Published in London: Edward Moxon & Co., Dover Street. Sq. 12mo.[463]

THE POEMS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. A new Edition. London: Edward Moxon & Co., Dover Street.

1867. THE WHITE DOE OF RYLSTONE; OR, THE FATE OF THE NORTONS. By William Wordsworth. London: Bell and Daldy, 186 Fleet Street. 8vo.[464]

1869. THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. A new Edition. London: Edward Moxon, Son, & Co., 44 Dover Street, Piccadilly.

1870. THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. Edited, with a critical Memoir, by William Michael Rossetti. Illustrated by artistic etchings by Edwin Edwards. London: E. Moxon, Son, & Co., Dover Street. Small 4to.

THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. Edited, with a critical Memoir, by William Michael Rossetti. Illustrated by Henry Dell. London: E. Moxon, Son, & Co., Dover Street. 8vo.[465]

1876. THE PROSE WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. For the first time collected, with additions from unpublished manuscripts. Edited, with Preface, Notes and Illustrations, by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart, St. George’s, Blackburn, Lancashire. In three volumes. Volume I. Political and Ethical. Volume II. Æsthetical and Literary. Volume III. Critical and Ethical. London: Edward Moxon, Son, and Co., 1 Amen Corner, Paternoster Row. 8vo.

1879. POEMS OF WORDSWORTH, chosen and edited by Matthew Arnold. London: Macmillan and Co. 18mo.[466]

THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. Edited by William Knight, LL.D., Professor of Moral Philosophy, St. Andrews. Edinburgh: William Paterson. MDCCCLXXXII. [MDCCCLXXXII.-- MDCCCLXXXVI.] 8 vols. Demy 8vo.[467]

SELECTIONS FROM WORDSWORTH. Edited, with an Introductory Memoir, by J. S. Fletcher. London: Alex. Gardner, 12 Paternoster Row, and Paisley. MDCCCLXXXIII. Fcap. 8vo. Parchment.[468]

1883. WINNOWINGS FROM WORDSWORTH. Edited by J. Robertson. Simpkin & Co. 1883.

THE BROTHERS, AND OTHER POEMS FOUNDED ON THE AFFECTIONS. 18mo. Collins.

1884. THE RIVER DUDDON. A Series of Sonnets. By William Wordsworth. With ten Etchings by R. S. Chattock, The Fine Art Society, 148 New Bond Street, London. Folio.

THE SONNETS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. Collected in one volume, with an Essay on The History of the English Sonnet by Richard Chenevix Trench, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin, Chancellor of the Order of St. Patrick. London: Suttaby and Co., Amen Corner. MDCCCLXXXIV. 8vo.[469]

SELECTIONS FROM WORDSWORTH. By Misses Wordsworth. London: Kegan Paul, & Co. April 8, 1884.

THE WORDSWORTH BIRTHDAY BOOK. Edited by Adelaide and Violet Wordsworth. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co.

BIRTHDAY TEXTS FROM WORDSWORTH. Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo. N. D.

THE GOLDEN POETS. “Wordsworth.” London: Marcus Ward & Co. N. D.

1885. THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, With a Prefatory Notice, Biographical and Critical. By Andrew James Symington. London: Walter Scott, 14 Paternoster Square and Newcastle-on-Tyne. 16mo.[470]

WORDSWORTH’S EXCURSION. THE WANDERER. Edited, with Notes, etc., by H. H. Turner. London: Rivingtons. N. D.

ODE ON IMMORTALITY, AND LINES ON TINTERN ABBEY. Illustrated. Cassell. 4to.

TINTERN ABBEY, ODES, AND THE HAPPY WARRIOR. 8vo. Chambers. (Republished in 1892.)

1887. THROUGH THE WORDSWORTH COUNTRY. By Harry Goodwin and Professor Knight. London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co., Paternoster Square. Imperial 8vo.[471]

WORDSWORTH AND KEATS, Selections. In 16mo. M. Ward.

1888. THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. With an Introduction by John Morley. With a Portrait. London: Macmillan & Co. Crown 8vo.

1888. SELECTIONS FROM WORDSWORTH. By William Knight, and other Members of the Wordsworth Society. With Preface and Notes. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., 1 Paternoster Square. MDCCCLXXXVIII. Large Crown 8vo.[472]

1888. THE RECLUSE. By William Wordsworth. London: Macmillan and Co.[473]

1888. THE POETICAL WORKS OF WORDSWORTH. With Memoir, Explanatory Notes, etc. London: Griffith, Farren, & Co., Newbury House, Charing Cross Road.

PROSE WRITINGS OF WORDSWORTH: Selected and Edited, with an Introduction, by William Knight. London: Walter Scott. No date.

1889. WE ARE SEVEN. Illustrated by Agnes Gardner King. 16mo.

1891. LYRICS AND SONNETS OF WORDSWORTH. With Introduction and Bibliography. By Clement R. Shorter. Scott Library. 32mo.

THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. Edited, with Memoir, by Edward Dowden. London: George Bell & Sons. 1892-1893.[474]

1891. LYRICAL BALLADS, ETC. A reprint of the original edition of 1798. Edited by Edward Dowden. London: David Nutt. 16mo.

1891. THE WHITE DOE OF RYLSTONE, WITH THE SONG AT THE FEAST OF BROUGHAM CASTLE. Edited, with introduction and notes, by William Knight. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press.

THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. Edinburgh: W.P. Nimmo, Hay, and Mitchell. 1892.

WORDSWORTH FOR THE YOUNG. With notes by J.C. Wright. 8vo. 1893.

1895. THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, with introductions and notes. Edited by Thomas Hutchinson, M.A. London: Henry Froude, Oxford University Press Warehouse, Amen Corner, E.C.

THE PENNY POETS, in “The Masterpiece Library.” Wordsworth. Nos. XXXII. and XXXVII.

1896. LYRIC POEMS. Edited by Ernest Rhys. 8vo. London: Dent & Co.

THE PRELUDE; OR, GROWTH OF A POET’S MIND. 18mo. London: Dent & Co.

“The Lansdowne Poets” included one of Wordsworth. The “Albion” edition was published by Messrs. Froude, Oxford University Press.[475]

[458] In this edition--reprinted as “The Centenary Edition” in 1870, 1881, and 1882--the Fenwick notes were printed, for the first time in full, as prefatory notes to the poems.--ED.

[459] Reproduced in 1864.--ED.

[460] It contains illustrations by H. N. Humphreys and Birket Foster.--ED.

[461] This volume contains eleven etchings of varying merit.--ED.

[462] These are volumes 707 and 708 of Tauchnitz’s “Collection of British Authors.”--ED.

[463] It contains a steel engraving from Chantrey’s bust of the Poet. This selection was re-issued in 1866, and 1869; and, recently, in a small pocket edition.--ED.

[464] This is a reprint, in a different form, of No. 8.--ED.

[465] In this edition, which is a reprint, on smaller paper, of No. 19. there is an engraving from one of the portraits of the Poet by Miss Gillies. The engraving first appeared in Volume I. of _The New Spirit of the Age_, edited by R. H. Horne.--ED.

[466] It contains an idealised engraving of one of Haydon’s portraits of Wordsworth, after Lupton, by C. H. Jeens, and on the outside cover a drawing of Dove Cottage.--ED.

[467] In this edition the Poems were arranged for the first time in the chronological order of composition; the changes of text, in the successive editions, were given in footnotes, with the dates of these changes; many new readings, or suggested changes of text--which were written by the Poet on the margins of a copy of the edition of 1836-37, kept at Rydal Mount, and afterwards in the possession of Lord Coleridge--were added; all the Fenwick notes were printed as Prefatory notes; Topographical notes--containing allusions to localities in the English Lake District, and elsewhere--were given; several Poems and Fragments hitherto unpublished were printed; a Bibliography of the Poems, and of editions published in England and America from 1793 to 1850 was added. Etchings of localities associated with the Poet, from drawings by Mr. MacWhirter, were given as frontispieces to Volumes I., II., III., IV., V., VI., and VII. The text adopted was Wordsworth’s final text of 1849-50.--ED.

[468] It contains an engraving of Rydal Mount on the fly-leaf.--ED.

[469] This volume is a reprint of Wordsworth’s own edition of his Sonnets, published in 1838, with the addition of Archbishop Trench’s _History of the English Sonnet_.--ED.

[470] This is one of the volumes of _The Canterbury Poets_. It is only a selection, though described on the title as “The Poetical Works.”--ED.

[471] This volume contains fifty-five engravings from drawings by Harry Goodwin of scenes in the English Lake District associated with Wordsworth, with the poems, or portions of poems, referring to the places.--ED.

[472] The poems are arranged in chronological order of composition; and there is, as frontispiece, an etched portrait of the Poet from a miniature by Margaret Gillies in the possession of Sir Henry Doulton. Amongst those who contributed to it were Robert Browning, James Russell Lowell, the late Lord Selborne, Mr. R. H. Hutton, the Dean of Salisbury, the late Lord Coleridge, the Rev. Stopford Brooke, Mr. Aubrey de Vere, the late Lord Houghton, Canon Rawnsley, the late Principals Shairp and Greenwood and Professor Veitch, Mr. Spence Watson, Mr. Rix, Mr. Heard, Mr. Cotterill, the late Bishop Wordsworth of St. Andrews, and the Editor.--ED.

[473] In the prefatory advertisement to the first edition of _The Prelude_ 1850, it is stated that that poem was designed to be introductory to _The Recluse_, and that _The Recluse_ if completed, would have consisted of three parts. The second part is _The Excursion_. The third part was only planned. The first book of the first part was left in manuscript by Wordsworth. It was published for the first time _in extenso_ in 1888.--ED.

[474] This Aldine edition, by Professor Dowden, is one of great merit, and permanent value. Although it is not immaculate--as no literary work ever is--as a contribution to Wordsworthian Literature it will hold an honoured place. Its “critical apparatus” is succinct and admirable.--ED.

[475] Mr. Andrew Lang tells me that he is about to edit a _Selection_ of the Poems, for the Messrs. Longman; which will, no doubt, be as useful, and popular, as Matthew Arnold’s Selection has been.--ED.

III

ESTIMATES OF WORDSWORTH IN VARIOUS BOOKS[476]

1811. SEWARD, ANNA. Letters written between the Years 1784 and 1807. Edited by A. Constable, vol. vi. No. 66.[477] 8vo. Edinburgh.

1817. COLERIDGE, S. T. Biographia Literaria; or, Biographical Sketches of my Literary Life and Opinions. 2 vols. 8vo. London: Rest Fenner. Second Edition. London: William Pickering. 1847. Bohn’s Standard Library. 1866.

COLERIDGE, S. T. In _The Friend, passim_. Second Edition. London: Rest Fenner.

HAZLITT, WILLIAM. The Round Table: a Collection of Essays on Literature, Men, and Manners. Observations on Mr. Wordsworth’s Poem, “The Excursion.” 12mo. London: Templeman. Also in Bohn’s Standard Library. Edited by W. Carew Hazlitt. Pp. 158-176. London. 1871.

1818. HAZLITT, WILLIAM. Lectures on the English Poets. 8vo. London: Taylor and Hessey. Also in Bohn’s Standard Library. 1870.

1819. HAZLITT, WILLIAM. Political Essays, with Sketches of Public Characters. My First Acquaintance with Poets. 8vo. London: Templeman. Also in Winterslow, pp. 255-277. Bohn’s Standard Library. 1872.

1823. SOLIGNY, VICTOIRE DE, COUNT, _pseud._ (_i.e._ Peter George Patmore, father of the late Coventry Patmore). Letters on England, vol. ii. pp. 7-19. 8vo. London: Henry Colburn and Co.

1824. LANDOR, W. S. Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen. Southey and Porson, i. 39. 8vo. London: Taylor and Hessey. New Edition, i. 11, 68, 182. London: Edward Moxon. 1846. New Edition, iv. 18. London: Chapman and Hall. 1876.

1825. HAZLITT, WILLIAM. The Spirit of the Age; or, Contemporary Portraits. 8vo. London: Henry Colburn and Co.; Fourth Edition. George Bell and Sons. 1886.

1827. HONE, WILLIAM. The Table Book. Wordsworth, ii. 275. 8vo. London: Hunt and Clarke.

COLERIDGE, S. T. Table Talk. July 21, 1832; July 31, 1832; February 16, 1833.

1833. MONTGOMERY, JAMES. Lectures on Poetry and General Literature, delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831. Wordsworth’s Theory of Poetic Diction, pp. 134-141. 8vo. London: Longmans.

1836. Conversations at Cambridge. The Poet Wordsworth and Professor Smythe, pp. 235-252. 8vo. London: John W. Parker.

1837. COTTLE, JOSEPH. Early Recollections; chiefly relating to the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, during his long Residence in Bristol. 2 vols. 8vo. London: Longman, Rees and Co.

1838. CHORLEY, H. F. The Authors of England. 4to. London. New Edition, revised (by G. B.) London. 1861.

HARE, JULIUS C. and AUGUSTUS W. Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Second Series. 8vo. London: Taylor and Walton. The Dedication of this edition is to William Wordsworth. New Edition, in one volume. Macmillan and Co. 1866.

1840. HUNT, LEIGH. The Seer. “Wordsworth and Milton,” pp. 5-53. London: Edward Moxon.

RUSKIN, JOHN. Modern Painters (1843-1860), _passim_ in all the five volumes. London: George Allen.

1843. CHAMBERS, ROBERT. Cyclopædia of English Literature. Wordsworth, ii. 322-333. Fourth Edition, revised by Robert Carruthers, LL.D. 1888. 8vo. Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers.

1844. HORNE, R. H. A New Spirit of the Age. William Wordsworth and Leigh Hunt, vol. i. pp. 307-332. 12mo. London: Smith, Elder and Co.

KEBLE, JOHN. Praelectiones Academicae Oxonii habitae, annis MDCCCXXXII.-MDCCCXLI., tom. ii. pp. 615, 789. 8vo. Oxonii: J. H. Parker.

1845. GILFILLAN, GEORGE. A Gallery of Literary Portraits. 12mo. Edinburgh: Groombridge.

CRAIK, E. L. Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England. Vol. vi., pp. 114-139. London: Charles Knight.

1847. HOWITT, WILLIAM. Homes and Haunts of the most eminent British Poets, vol. ii. pp. 259-291. 8vo. London: Richard Bentley. Third Edition. Routledge and Sons. 1862.

TUCKERMAN, HENRY T. Thoughts on the Poets. 8vo. London: J. Chapman.

1849. GILFILLAN, GEORGE. A Second Gallery of Literary Portraits. 8vo. Edinburgh: Groombridge.

SHAW, THOMAS B. Outlines of English Literature. Wordsworth, pp. 518-526. 8vo. London: John Murray. Sixteenth Edition, edited by William Smith, D.C.L. 1887.

TAYLOR, HENRY. Notes from Books. In four Essays. Wordsworth’s Poetical Works and Sonnets, pp. 1-186. 8vo. London: John Murray. Works: Author’s Edition, vol. v. London: C. Kegan Paul and Co. 1878.

1849-50. SOUTHEY, ROBERT. Life and Correspondence. Edited by the Rev. Charles Cuthbert Southey. 6 vols. Comments on Wordsworth in chaps, ix.-xiii. xv. xix. xxvi. xxxii. and xxxvi. 8vo. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans.

1851. GILLIES, R. P. Memoirs of a Literary Veteran; including Sketches and Anecdotes of the most distinguished Literary Characters from 1794 to 1849. Wordsworth, vol. ii. pp. 136-173. 8vo. London: Richard Bentley.

The Poetic Companion, vol. i., pp. 168-173. A Biographical and Critical Sketch of William Wordsworth.

MOIR, D. M. Sketches of the Poetical Literature of the past Half-Century, pp. 59-81; 120. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons. Third Edition, 1856.

WORDSWORTH, CHRISTOPHER. Memoirs of William Wordsworth, Poet-Laureate, D.C.L. 2 vols. 8vo. London: Edward Moxon. 1851.

1852. JANUARY SEARLE (George S. Phillips). Memoirs of William Wordsworth, compiled from Authentic Sources. 12mo. London: Partridge and Oakey.

MITFORD, M. R. Recollections of a Literary Life; or, Books, Places, and People, vol. iii. chap. i. 8vo. London: Richard Bentley.

1853. An Essay on the Poetry of Wordsworth, 72 pp. 8vo. Liverpool.

AUSTIN, W. S., and JOHN RALPH. The Lives of the Poets-Laureate. With an Introductory Essay on the Title and Office. William Wordsworth, pp. 396-428. 8vo. London: Richard Bentley.

WRIGHT, JOHN. The Genius of Wordsworth harmonised with the Wisdom and Integrity of his Reviewers. 8vo. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans.

SPALDING, WILLIAM. The History of English Literature. 8vo. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd.

1854. DE QUINCEY, THOMAS. Autobiographic Sketches. Early Memorials of Grasmere, vol. ii. pp. 104-141; William Wordsworth, pp. 227-314; William Wordsworth and Robert Southey, pp. 315-345. 8vo. Edinburgh: James Hogg. Also Collected Writings. New and Enlarged Edition. By David Masson. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. 1889-90.

SPALDING, WILLIAM. Wordsworth, pp. 849-851. Cyclopædia of Biography, edited by Elihu Rich. 8vo. Glasgow: Richard Griffin and Co.

MOORE, THOMAS. Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of. Edited by the Right Honourable Lord John Russell, vol. iii. pp. 161, 163; vol. iv. pp. 48, 335; vol. vii pp. 72, 85, 197-8; vol. viii. pp. 69, 73, 291.

1856. CARLYON, CLEMENT. Early Years and Late Reflections, vol. i. 8vo. London: Whittaker and Co.

HOOD, E. P. William Wordsworth: a Biography. 8vo. London: W. and F. G. Cash.

MASSON, DAVID. Essays, Biographical and Critical: chiefly on English Poets. Wordsworth, pp. 346-390. 8vo. Cambridge: Macmillan and Co. Reprinted from _The North British Review_, August 1850.

ROGERS, SAMUEL. Recollections of the Table Talk of Samuel Rogers. 8vo. London: Edward Moxon.

WILSON, JOHN. Noctes Ambrosianae, vols. i.-iii. 8vo. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons. New Edition, 1864.

WILSON, JOHN. Essays, Critical and Imaginative. Wordsworth, vol. i. pp. 387-408. 8vo. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons.

1857. DE QUINCEY, THOMAS. Sketches, Critical and Biographic. On Wordsworth’s Poetry, vol. v. pp. 234-268. 8vo. Edinburgh: James Hogg and Sons.

REED, HENRY. Lectures on the British Poets. Wordsworth, Lecture XV. 8vo. London.

WILSON, JOHN. Recreations of Christopher North, vol. ii. Sacred Poetry. Wordsworth, pp. 54-70. 8vo. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons.

1858. BRIMLEY, GEORGE. Essays. Edited by William George Clark, M.A. Wordsworth’s Poems, pp. 104-187. 8vo. Cambridge: Macmillan and Co. Second Edition, 1860. Third Edition, 1882. Reprinted from _Fraser’s Magazine_, 1851.

ROBERTSON, F. W. Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics. Wordsworth, pp. 203-256. 8vo. London: Smith, Elder and Co.

THE ENGLISH CYCLOPÆDIA. A New Dictionary of Universal Knowledge. Conducted by Charles Knight. Wordsworth, vol. vi. pp. 808-812.

1859. MILL, J. S. Dissertations and Discussions. Thoughts on Poetry and its Varieties, i. 63-94. 8vo. London: John W. Parker and Son. Second Edition. Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer. 1867.

1860. CARRUTHERS, R. William Wordsworth. The _Encyclopædia Britannica_, Eighth Edition, xxi. 929-932. 4to. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black.

1861. CRAIK, GEORGE L. A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English Language from the Norman Conquest. Wordsworth, ii. 435-456; 463-467; 473. 8vo. London: Griffin, Bohn and Co.

1862. GORDON, MRS. “Christopher North.” A Memoir of John Wilson, compiled from Family Papers and other Sources. 2 vols. 8vo. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas. New Edition, 1879.

PATTERSON, A. S. Poets and Preachers of the Nineteenth Century: Four Lectures, Biographical and Critical, on Wordsworth, Montgomery, Hall, and Chalmers. 8vo. Glasgow: A. Hall.

1863. RUSHTON, WILLIAM. The Classical and Romantic Schools of English Literature, as represented by Spenser, Dryden, Pope, Scott, and Wordsworth. The Afternoon Lectures on English Literature, delivered in Dublin, pp. 43-92. 8vo. London: Bell and Daldy.

1864. COLQUHOUN, J. C. Scattered Leaves of Biography. IV.--Life of William Wordsworth. 8vo. London: Macintosh.

KNIGHT, CHARLES. Passages from a Working Life during half a century: with a prelude of Early Reminiscences, vol. iii. chap. ii. pp. 27-29.

1865. The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography. Edited by J. F. WALLER. Wordsworth, vol. vi. p. 1389. 8vo. London: W. Mackenzie.

1865. DENNIS, JOHN. Evenings in Arcadia. Edited by John Dennis. 12mo. London.

1868. BUCHANAN, ROBERT. David Gray, and Other Essays, chiefly on Poetry. Sampson Low.

MACDONALD, GEORGE. England’s Antiphon, pp. 303-7. 8vo. London.

SHAIRP, J. C. Studies in Poetry and Philosophy. Wordsworth: the Man and the Poet, pp. 1-115. 8vo. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas. Third Edition, 1876. Fourth Edition, 1886.

_Chambers’s Encyclopædia._ A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People. Wordsworth, vol. x. pp. 272-274. New Edition, pp. 737-740. 1892. 8vo. London: W. and R. Chambers.

1869. CLOUGH, A. H. Poems and Prose Remains. Lecture on the Poetry of Wordsworth, vol. i. pp. 309-325. 8vo. London: Macmillan and Co.

G., F. J. The Old College, being the Glasgow University Album for MDCCCLXIX. Edited by Students. William Wordsworth, pp. 243-259. 8vo. Glasgow: James Maclehose.

GRAVES, R. P. Recollections of Wordsworth and the Lake Country. The Afternoon Lectures on Literature and Art, delivered in Dublin, pp. 275-321. 8vo. Dublin: William M’Gee.

MARTINEAU, HARRIET. Biographical Sketches. Mrs. Wordsworth, pp. 402-408. 8vo. London: Macmillan and Co.

ROBINSON, HENRY CRABB. Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence. Selected and edited by Thomas Sadler. 3 vols. 8vo. London: Macmillan and Co.

1870. EMERSON, R. W. English Traits, First Visit to England. Bohn’s Standard Library; also Macmillan and Co. 1883.

1871. HUTTON, R. H. Essays, Theological and Literary. Wordsworth and his Genius, vol. ii. Literary Essays, pp. 101-146. 8vo. London: Strahan and Co. Second Edition, 1877.

TAINE, H. A. History of English Literature. Translated by H. Van Laun. With a preface by the author. Vol. ii. pp. 248; 260-265. 8vo. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas.

HALL, S. C. A Book of Memories of Great Men and Women of the Age, from Personal Acquaintance. London: Virtue and Co. Wordsworth, pp. 287-318.

1872. COOPER, THOMAS, Life of: An Autobiography. Reminiscence of Wordsworth (first published in _Cooper’s Journal_, May 1850), pp. 287-295.

DE MORGAN, AUGUSTUS. A Budget of Paradoxes. Wordsworth and Byron, p. 435. 8vo. London: Longmans, Green and Co.

NEAVES, CHARLES (Lord Neaves). A Lecture on Cheap and Accessible Pleasures. With a Comparative Sketch of the Poetry of Burns and Wordsworth, etc. 8vo. Edinburgh.

YONGE, CHARLES D. Three Centuries of English Literature. Wordsworth, pp. 251-267. 8vo. London: Longmans, Green and Co.

1873. COLERIDGE, SARA. Memoir and Letters. Edited by her Daughter. 2 vols. 8vo. London: Henry S. King and Co.

DEVEY, JOSEPH. A Comparative Estimate of Modern English Poets. Wordsworth, pp. 87-103. 8vo. London: Moxon and Son.

LONSDALE, HENRY. The Worthies of Cumberland. William Wordsworth, vol. iv. pp. 1-40. 8vo. London: George Routledge and Sons.

MORLEY, H. A First Sketch of English Literature. 8vo. London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin.

NICHOLS, W. L. The Quantocks and their Associations. A Paper read before the Members of the Bath Literary Club. 12mo. Bath. Printed for Private Circulation. Second Edition. London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co.

1874. BROOKE, STOPFORD A. Theology in the English Poets. Wordsworth, pp. 93-286. 8vo. London: Henry S. King and Co.

MASSON, DAVID. Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, and other Essays. Wordsworth, pp. 3-74. 8vo. London: Macmillan and Co.

WORDSWORTH, DOROTHY. Recollections of a Tour made in Scotland, A.D. 1803. Edited by J. C. Shairp. 8vo. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas.

1875. FLETCHER, MRS. Autobiography. With Letters and other Family Memorials. 8vo. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas.

1876. FORSTER, JOHN. The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor. Vol. i. The Life. 8vo. London: Chapman and Hall.

LAMB, CHARLES. The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb. Edited, with Notes and Illustrations, by Percy Fitzgerald. References to, and Criticisms of Wordsworth in vols. i. ii. 8vo. London: E. Moxon and Co.

LOWELL, J. RUSSELL. Among my Books. Second Series. Wordsworth, pp. 201-251. 8vo. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington.

MORLEY, HENRY. Cassell’s Library of English Literature. Vols. iii., iv., v. Wordsworth. 8vo. London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin.

STEDMAN, E. C. Victorian Poets. 8vo. London: Chatto and Windus.

TICKNOR, GEORGE. Life, Letters, and Journals. 2 vols. 8vo. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington.

1877. DOYLE, SIR FRANCIS H. Lectures on Poetry delivered at Oxford. Second Series. Wordsworth Lectures, i.-iii. pp. 1-77. 8vo. London: Smith, Elder and Co.

SHAIRP, J. C. On Poetic Interpretation of Nature. Wordsworth as an Interpreter of Nature, pp. 225-270. 8vo. Edinburgh: David Douglas.

ADAMS (W. DAVENPORT). Dictionary of English Literature. Wordsworth, pp. 700-701. 8vo. London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin.

1878. DOWDEN, E. Studies in Literature, 1789-1877. The Prose Works of Wordsworth, pp. 122-158. 8vo. London: C. Kegan Paul and Co.

KNIGHT, WILLIAM. The English Lake District as Interpreted in the Poems of Wordsworth. 12mo. Edinburgh: David Douglas. Second Edition, revised and enlarged 1891.

ROSSETTI, W. M. Lives of Various Poets. Wordsworth, pp. 203-218. 8vo. London: E. Moxon and Son.

The Treasury of Modern Biography. Edited by Robert Cochrane. Wordsworth, pp. 98-116. 8vo. Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo.

1879. BAGEHOT, WALTER. Literary Studies. Edited by Richard Holt Hutton. Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning; or, Pure, Ornate, and Grotesque Art in English Poetry, vol. ii. pp. 338-390. 8vo. London: Longmans, Green and Co.

KNIGHT, WILLIAM. Studies in Philosophy and Literature. Wordsworth, pp. 283-317. Nature as Interpreted by Wordsworth, pp. 405-426. 8vo. London: C. Kegan Paul and Co.

STEPHEN, LESLIE. Hours in a Library. Third Series. Wordsworth’s Ethics, pp. 178-229. 8vo. London: Smith, Elder and Co.

1880. BAYNE, PETER. Two Great Englishwomen: Mrs. Browning and Charlotte Brontë. With an Essay on Poetry, illustrated from Wordsworth, Burns, and Byron, pp. xi.-lxxviii. 8vo. London: James Clarke and Co.

CHURCH, R. W. William Wordsworth. The English Poets. Edited by Thomas Humphry Ward, vol. iv. pp. 1-15. 8vo. London: Macmillan and Co.

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