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

Chapter X: is on Wordsworth (1)

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1879. DESHLER, C. D. _Afternoons with the Poets._ New York: Harper and Brothers. 12mo. _Wordsworth._

1871. FIELDS, J. T. _Yesterdays with Authors._ Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co.; also,

1889. _Wordsworth, A Sketch_, p. 253.

1838. FROST, JOHN. _Select Works of the British Poets, with Biographical Sketches._ Philadelphia: Thomas Wardle. _Wordsworth._

1849. GRAHAM, G. F. _English Synonyms._ New York: D. Appleton and Co. Edited with an Introduction and Illustrative Authorities. By Henry Reed.[507]

1854. GILES, H. T. _Illustrations of Genius._ Boston: Ticknor and Fields. 16mo. _William Wordsworth_, pp. 239-266.

1886. GRISWOLD, H. T. _Home Life of Great Authors._ Chicago. 18mo. _William Wordsworth_, p. 43.

1849. GRISWOLD, R. W. _Sacred Poets of England and America._ New York. _Wordsworth._

1842. GRISWOLD, R. W. _Poets and Poetry of England._ Philadelphia: Carey and Hunt. A Review and Selections.

HODGKINS, LOUISE M. _Guide to Nineteenth Century Authors._ Boston. _Wordsworth Bibliography._

1884. HUDSON, H. N. _Studies in Wordsworth._ Boston: Little, Brown and Co.[508]

1886. JOHNSON, C. F. _Three Americans and Three Englishmen._ New York. _Wordsworth._

1864. LOWELL, J. R. _The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth._ Boston: Little, Brown and Co. 4 vols. Vol. 1.--_A Sketch of Wordsworth’s Life._

1876. LOWELL, J. R. _Among my Books._ Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. _Wordsworth_,[509] pp. 201-251.

1887. LOWELL, J. R. _Democracy and other Addresses._ Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. _Wordsworth_,[510] 22 pp.

1885. MASON, E. T. _Personal Traits of British Authors._ New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. _William Wordsworth_, pp. 7-55.

What follows is due to American Enterprise, but it is, of course, not strictly American.

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1883. MACDONALD, GEORGE. _The Imagination and other Essays_ (“Wordsworth’s Poetry,” pp. 245-263). Boston: D. Lothrop and Co.

1881. MYERS, F. W. H. _William Wordsworth._ (“English Men of Letters Series.”) New York: Harper and Brothers. 12mo.

1884. Same Title. New York: J. W. Lovell. 12mo.

1889. Same Title. New York. Harper and Brothers.

1838. OSBORN, LAUGHTON. _The Vision of Rubeta._[511] Boston: Weeks, Jordan and Co. 8vo.

1846. OSSOLI, MARGARET FULLER. _Art, Literature, and the Drama._ Boston. _Wordsworth._[512]

1885. PHILLIPS, MAUD GILLETTE. _A Popular Manual of English Literature._ New York: Harper and Brothers. Vol. ii. pp. 217-264.

1851. REED, HENRY. _Memoirs of Wordsworth._ By C. Wordsworth. Edited by Henry Reed. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields.[513]

1857. REED, HENRY. _Lectures on the British Poets._ In two vols. Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger. Vol. ii. pp. 199-231. Lecture XV.--_Wordsworth._

1870. REED, HENRY. _Lectures on the British Poets._ Philadelphia: Claxton, Reinsen and Haffelfinger. _Essay on the English Sonnet_, vol. ii. pp. 235-272.[514]

1887. SAUNDERS, FREDERICK. _Story of some Famous Books._ New York: Armstrong and Son. _William Wordsworth_, p. 125.

SAUNDERS, FREDERICK. _Evenings with Sacred Poets._ New York: Randolph and Co. _Wordsworth._[515]

1894. SCUDDER, HORACE E. _Childhood in Literature and Art._ Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. In the chapter entitled “In English Literature and Art,” Wordsworth is dealt with (chap. vi. pp. 145-157).[516]

1895. SCUDDER, VIDAD. _The Life of the Spirit in Modern English Poets._ Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. Crown 8vo.

1892. STEDMAN, C. E. _Nature and Elements of Poetry._ Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co.[517]

1846. TUCKERMAN, H. T. _Thoughts on the Poets._ New York. _Genius and Writings of Wordsworth._

1882. WELSH, A. H. _Development of English Literature and Language._ Chicago. _Wordsworth_, vol. ii. pp. 330-339.

1850. WHIPPLE, E. P. _Essays and Reviews._ Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. _Wordsworth_, vol. i. p. 222.[518]

1871. WHIPPLE, E. P. _Literature and Life._ Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. _Wordsworth_, p. 253.[519]

1854. WILLIS, N. P. _Famous Persons and Places._ New York: Charles Scribner.[520]

[504] A reprint of the article was published in _The Century Magazine_, 1884.

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[505] Not of much importance--the author praises Wordsworth and criticises Jeffrey.

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[506] About the same in the “Address” as in the “Complete Works.”

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[507] Contains four hundred quotations from Wordsworth.

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[508] Contains 258 pages on Wordsworth.

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[509] The same as above with some corrections, and twenty-three new pages added.

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[510] The above was first given as an address to “The Wordsworth Society,” 1884, and appeared in _Wordsworthiana_ in 1889.

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[511] In the Appendix are about twenty pages containing a ferocious criticism on “Wordsworth, his Poetry and his Misrepresentations.”

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[512] In the Memoirs of M. F. Ossoli (Boston, vol. iii. p. 84) there is a short reference to Wordsworth.

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[513] Introduction and Editorial Notes by H. R., interesting and valuable.

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[514] In the Lecture on the Sonnet, there are interesting allusions to Wordsworth’s Sonnets.

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[515] This book and the previous one have about half a dozen pages each on Wordsworth.

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[516] The substance of this chapter on Wordsworth as a revealer of Childhood, first appeared in _The Atlantic Monthly_, October 1885.

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[517] In this volume there are many references to Wordsworth of interest--especially at pp. 202, 206, 210 and 263--on _Subjective Interpretation, The Pathetic Fallacy_, etc.

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[518] This essay was also published in _The Complete Poetical Works_. Philadelphia: James Kay jun. and Brothers, 1837. Also in _The North American Review_, 1844.

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[519] The above appeared first in _The North American Review_. It was “written when the news came of Wordsworth’s death.” It is not given elsewhere in this list.

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[520] Letter V. contains some characteristic remarks on Wordsworth by “Christopher North,” who gave Willis a note of introduction to Wordsworth and Southey. Willis did _not_ write about Wordsworth in this book. As it is inserted in some of the lists, I include it, with this explanation.

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REVIEW AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES ON WORDSWORTH PUBLISHED IN AMERICA

FROM 1801 TO 1840

In examining American Reviews and Magazines, for articles on Wordsworth, I find--after much laborious search--only some insignificant notices of his poems, of no critical or literary merit.

I have carefully read each article which appears in this list, and I add brief explanatory notes, indicative of the general tenor of the articles. It was disheartening to find that many of the references to Wordsworth, in Poole’s elaborate _Index to Periodical Literature_, were inaccurate and misleading; and that nearly all the articles on Wordsworth published in _Harper’s Monthly Magazine_ for 1850 were “conveyed” from contemporary English journals.

1801. _The Port Folio._ Vol. i.

Memoranda regarding the first publication of “Lyrical Ballads” in America.

1801. December, p. 407. The Original Prospectus of “Lyrical Ballads.”[521] (James Humphreys publisher.)

1801. P. 408.[522]

1802. Vol. ii. p. 62.[523]

1803. Vol. iii. p. 288.[524]

1803. P. 320. Note on the poem beginning,

“A whirl-blast from behind the hill.”

1804. Vol. iv. p. 87. Announcement that the editor wishes to obtain a copy of _Descriptive Sketches_ (1798) from some publisher or reader.

1804. P. 96.[525]

1802. _The Philadelphia Gazette and Daily Advertiser._ (Published by Samuel Relf.) Friday, Jan. 15, “Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads.” (The publisher’s advertisement of the First American Edition.)

1819. DANA, R. H.[526] _North American Review._ Vol. xxiii. p. 276. In review of Hazlitt’s _English Poets_.

1824. _North American Review._ Vol. xviii. p. 356.[527]

1824. _United States Literary Gazette._ Vol. i. p. 245.[528]

1825. _The Atlantic Magazine_, vol. ii. pp. 334-348.

1827. _Christian Monthly Spectator._ Vol. ix. p. 244. (A short article on Wordsworth.)

1832. PRESCOTT, W. H. _North American Review._ Vol. xxxv. pp. 171, 173-176. (In a “Review of English Literature of Nineteenth Century,” is an important reference to Wordsworth.)

1836. EDWARDS, B. B. _American Biblical Repository._ Vol. vii. pp. 187-204.[529]

1836. _American Quarterly Review._ Vol. xix. p. 66.[530]

1836. _American Quarterly Review._ Vol. xix. pp. 420-442.[531]

1836. FELTON, C. C. _The Christian Examiner._ Vol. xix. p. 375.[532]

1836. PORTER, NOAH. _Christian Quarterly Spectator._[533] Vol. viii. pp. 127-151.

_Christian Monthly Spectator._ Vol xviii. p. 1.[534]

1837. _“Waldie’s” Octavo Library._ (Edited by John J. Smith.)[535]

1837. _“Waldie’s” Octavo Library._ March 21.[536]

1837. _Southern Literary Messenger._ Vol. iii. p. 705. “By a Virginian.”[537]

1837. WHIPPLE, E. P. _The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth_[538] (1837).

1839. _New York Review._ Vol. iv. pp. 1-71.[539]

1839. _American Biblical Repository._[540] Vol. i. pp. 206-239. (Second edition.)

1839. _Boston Quarterly Review._ Vol. ii. pp. 137-169. (A review of “Wordsworth’s Poetical Works,” London, 1832.)

1839. _American Methodist Review._[541] Vol. xxi. p. 449.

[521] An enthusiastic announcement.

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[522] An appreciatory and critical Introductory Note to _The Waterfall and the Eglantine_.

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[523] Editorial reporting the increasing popularity of “Lyrical Ballads,” and further commendation of the poems.

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[524] Note on _The Fountain_.

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[525] An editorial announcement that “Lyrical Ballads” had reached a third edition, and containing one of the most ardent tributes to Wordsworth in the language.

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[526] Not long, but of much interest.

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[527] An unsigned and excellent review of the 1824 (Boston) edition of the poems. The writer remarks that not a volume of Wordsworth’s poems has been published in America since 1802. Attributed to F.W.P. Greenwood.

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[528] Anonymous review of the 1824 (Boston) edition of the poems. One of the very best.

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[529] Sectarian in spirit, but on the whole fair to Wordsworth.

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[530] Anonymous. A well-written article of about twenty-four pages, reviewing _Yarrow Revisited_. It was one of the earliest reviews in an American journal that claimed for Wordsworth a high order of genius. It was probably written by Robert Walsh, the editor of the _Review_.

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[531] An article on Wordsworth’s sonnets on Capital Punishment, in an article on “The English Sonnet.” Judge Henry Reed found this to have been written by his father, Professor Henry Reed.

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[532] An appreciative criticism of eight pages.

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[533] Entitled “Wordsworth and his Poetry.” A review of the 1824 edition and of _Yarrow Revisited_, Boston, 1835. An estimate of Wordsworth’s claims as a poet, and as a man. A more comprehensive, stronger, more inviting criticism (in appealing to those to whom the poetry is unknown) has not been written. It ranks, in my opinion, among the best criticisms on Wordsworth written in America.

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[534] H. Tuckerman wrote an article on Wordsworth for his magazine. This may be the article.

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[535] The number for 7th March contains a notice of Wordsworth, in a review of Reed’s _Complete Poetical Works of Wordsworth_ (1837).

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[536] Another mention of Reed’s edition, and of the discovery that “a fellow-townsman,” Dr. T. C. James, anticipated the fact of Wordsworth’s popularity. A quotation from “Memoirs of Historical Society of Pennsylvania” to prove Dr. James’ prophecy.

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[537] Writer unknown.

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[538] To class this review with others of an early date, I have placed it among Periodical Reviews. It appeared in _The North American Review_, 1844; and again, in 1850, in _Essays and Reviews_.

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[539] A review of Reed’s 1837 edition of “Wordsworth’s Poetical Works.” Professor Henry Reed’s son--Judge Henry Reed of Philadelphia--informs me that it was written by his father.

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[540] This article is entitled “Modern English Poetry--Byron, Shelley, and Wordsworth.”

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[541] By an unknown author.

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CRITICISMS AND REVIEWS IN PERIODICALS FROM 1840 TO 1870

Arranged as far as possible according to merit. It is difficult to distinguish between the first twelve or fifteen. After them I have placed the articles in the _Literary World_. Most of them have not been noted in other lists, and are especially interesting, as being additional tributes of Wordsworth’s intimate friend, Henry Reed. I am indebted to Judge Henry Reed of Philadelphia, for more carefully examining his father’s papers, and to the _Literary World_ for ascertaining, as far as possible, all that his father wrote on Wordsworth. The criticisms that immediately follow are not without interest. The last half dozen are given, for the most part, because they appear in _Poole’s Index_, or in other lists. I have omitted two or three which are of no value whatever.

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1844. WHIPPLE, E. P. _North American Review._[542] Vol. lix. pp. 352-384.

1857. HAVEN, GILBERT. _Methodist Quarterly Review._ Vol. xxxix. p. 362.[543]

1851. PASSMORE, J. C. _The Church Review._ Vol. iv. pp. 169-188.[544]

1866. ALGER, W. R. _Monthly Religious Magazine._ Vol. xxxvi. p. 294.

1850. MUZZEY, A. B. _The Christian Examiner._ Vol. xlix. p. 100. (The title of this article is “Wordsworth, the Christian Poet.”)

1851. GOODWIN, H. M. _The New Englander._ Vol. xlvii. p. 309. (Title, “Wordsworth as a Spiritual Teacher.”)

1851. _North American Review._ Vol. lxxiii. p. 473.[545]

1851. MOUNTFORD, W. _The Christian Examiner._ Vol. li. p. 275.[546]

1851. PORTER, NOAH. _The New Englander Magazine._ Vol. ix. p. 583.[547]

1851. WIGHT, ORLANDO WILLIAMS. _American Whig Review._ Vol. xiv. pp. 68-81.[548]

1851. WIGHT, ORLANDO WILLIAMS. _American Whig Review._ Vol. xiii. pp. 448-458.[549]

1854. _Presbyterian Quarterly Review._ Vol. ii. pp. 643-663.[550] Article 1.

1854. _Presbyterian Quarterly Review._ Vol. iii. pp. 69-88.[551] Article 2.

1841. TUCKERMAN, H. _Southern Literary Messenger._ Vol. vii. p. 105.

1850. _Literary World._ Vol. vi. p. 485. “William Wordsworth.”[552]

1850. REED, HENRY. _Literary World._ Vol. vi. pp. 581, 582. On Wordsworth.

1850. REED, HENRY. _Literary World._ Vol. vii. pp. 205, 206. A second short article.

1850. _Literary World._ “The Prelude.” Vol. vii. p. 167.[553]

1850. _Literary World._ “Visit to Wordsworth’s Grave.” Vol. vii. p. 225.[554]

1850. SPENCER, J. A. _Literary World._ “Visit to Wordsworth.” November 23.[555]

1851. _Literary World._ Vols. viii. ix. (May 24, June 14, July 12, August 2.)[556] Reviews of Christopher Wordsworth’s _Memoirs_ of his uncle.

1853. REED, HENRY. _Literary World._ Vol. xii. June 25.[557]

1850. _Southern Quarterly Review._ Vol. xviii. p. 1. Review of the _Poetical Works of Wordsworth_. London: Moxon, 1845.

1856. _United States Democratic Review._ Vol. vi. pp. 281-295. (New Series.) Article 1. “Of Wordsworth’s life, beginning at Bristol.”

1856. _United States Democratic Review._ Vol. vi. p. 363. (New Series.) Article 2.

1850. _Graham Magazine._ Vol. i. pp. 105-116. Supposed to be written by Charles J. Peterson. (Signed P.) Review of the life and poetry of Wordsworth, written by one who confessed to an admiration for Wordsworth’s genius bordering on veneration.

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1878. _American Journal of Education._ Wordsworth and Cambridge. Vol. xxviii. p. 426.[558]

1843. _United States Democratic Review._ Vol. xii. p. 158.[559]

1836-63. _Christian Review._ Vol. xvi. p. 434. “Wordsworth as a Religious Poet.”

1844. CUYLER, T. L. _Godey’s Lady’s Book._ Vol. xxviii. (January). “On the English Lakes and Wordsworth.”

1850. _International Magazine._ Vol. i. p. 271. “A Review of _The Prelude_, from _The Examiner_.”

1855. _Brownson’s Quarterly Review._ Vol. xii. p. 525. “Wordsworth’s Poetical Works.”

1850. _Graham Magazine._ Vol. i. pp. 322, 323.[560]

1842. _United States Democratic Review._ Vol. x. pp. 272-288. (New Series.)[561]

1865. _North American Review._ Vol. c. p. 508. Boston: Little, Brown and Co.

1850. _Southern Literary Messenger._ Vol. xvi. p. 474.[562]

1851. _Harper’s Monthly Magazine._ Vol. iii. p. 502.[563]

1845. BOWEN, F. _North American Review._ Vol. lxi. p. 217.[564]

1863. ALGER, W. R. _North American Review._ Vol. xcvi. p. 141.[565]

1850. _Southern Literary Messenger._ Vol. xvi. p. 637.[566]

1863. WARD, J. H. _North American Review._ Vol. xcvii. p. 387.

1853. _The National Magazine._ Vol. iii. No. 7, “An Estimate of Wordsworth.”

1853. _The Christian Observer._ Vol. 1. pp. 307-381.[567]

1858. “The Genius of Wordsworth,” in the “Editor’s Table” of _Russell’s Magazine_. Charleston, S.E. Vol. iii. pp. 271-274.

[542] A review of the 1837 edition of Wordsworth’s poems. Perhaps no abler or more comprehensive review of Wordsworth’s life and writings has been written than this, by America’s foremost critic.

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[543] One of the best of the early American criticisms.

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[544] A review of the 1851 edition. Contains an earnest plea for the study of Wordsworth’s poetry in America. One of the noblest criticisms written.

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[545] On the “Life and Poetry of Wordsworth.” A review of _The Prelude_. Unsigned; but the name is given elsewhere, as T. Chase.

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[546] A review of the _Memoirs of Wordsworth_, by his nephew, the Bishop of Lincoln.

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[547] A review of Professor Reed’s edition of the _Memoirs of Wordsworth_, Boston, 1851.

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[548] A review of the _Memoirs_, signed O. W.W.

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[549] A review of _The Prelude_.

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[550] Anonymous. A short review of _The Prelude_, and, at greater length, of _The Life_ (edited by Reed). An estimate of his work and influence.

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[551] Traces the literary life of the poet. Claims for Wordsworth the precedence to Coleridge in the utterance of a spiritual Philosophy.

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[552] A notice of Wordsworth’s death, unsigned; but Mr. Wilberforce Eames--of the Lenox Library--informs me, that their library now owns Mr. Evert A. Duyckinck’s copy of the _Literary World_, and that gentleman’s own initials are appended in pencil to this article. Mr. Duyckinck was editor of the _Literary World_.

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[553] Judge Reed, Professor Henry Reed’s son, does not attribute this article to his father. There is an impression that Professor Reed published an article on _The Prelude_. His lecture on that poem was never published.

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[554] Signed by R. F. Correspondence, _London Literary Gazette_, August 31.

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[555] Possibly the same as in that scarce number of the _Southern Literary Messenger_. Vol. xvi. p. 474.

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[556] These articles, in the opinion of Judge Henry Reed, are not by his father, Professor Henry Reed.

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[557] Notice to those who wish to subscribe to the Memorial to Wordsworth, signed.

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[558] An article on the University of Cambridge, and an account of Wordsworth’s residence at St. John’s College, 1787-1791.

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[559] Six pages on Wordsworth’s _Sonnet to Liberty_.

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[560] A brief review of _The Prelude_ and _Excursion_, and a comparison between the two poems.

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[561] On Wordsworth’s sonnets in favour of Capital Punishment.

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[562] On the house at Rydal.

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[563] An unsigned, four paged article on Wordsworth, Byron Scott, and Shelley.

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[564] In a “Review of Longfellow’s _Poets and Poetry of Europe_,” a page on Wordsworth’s influence.

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[565] In “The Origin and Uses of Poetry,” a few lines on Wordsworth.

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[566] A notice, with extracts from _The Prelude_.

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[567] “The Religion of Wordsworth’s Poetry.”

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CRITICISMS AND REVIEWS IN PERIODICALS FROM 1870 TO 1895

These are not chronologically arranged by Mrs. St. John, but see her note to Section V.--ED.

1882. DEWITT, DR. JOHN. _Presbyterian Review._ Vol. iii. p. 241.[568]

1884. BURROUGHS, JOHN. _The Century Magazine._ Vol. v. p. 418. This is entitled “Wordsworth’s Country.”

1880. CRANCH, C. P. _The Atlantic Monthly._ Vol. xlv. p. 241. Entitled “Wordsworth.” A review of the 1880 Poetical Works (Boston). The writer notes what he considers the chief excellency as well as defects of Wordsworth’s poetry.

1888. MURRAY, J. O. _The Homiletic Review._ Vol. xvi. pp. 295-304. Title, “The Study of Wordsworth’s Poetry.”

1890. PATTISON, T. H. _The Baptist Review._ Vol. xii. p. 265. “The Religious Influence of Wordsworth.”

1889. HUTTON, LAWRENCE. _Harper’s Monthly Magazine._ Vol. lxxviii.[569] (in Literary Notes).

1880-1. CONWAY, MONCURE D. _Harper’s Monthly Magazine._ “The English Lakes and their Genii.” Vol. lxii. pp. 7, 161, 339.

1883. PEDDER, H. C. _The Manhattan._ Vol. ii. pp. 418-433.[570]

1876. YARNALL, ELLIS. _Lippincott’s Magazine._ Vol. xviii. pp. 543-554, 669-683. “Walks and Visits in Wordsworth’s Country.” Written in the summer of 1855 and 1857.

1871. FIELDS, J. T. _The Atlantic Monthly._ Vol. xxviii. p. 750. On Wordsworth, in an article entitled “Our Whispering Gallery.” The same article is cut down in _Yesterdays with Authors_.[571]

1892. PARSONS, EUGENE. _The Examiner._ Vol. lxx. p. 1. On “Tennyson and Wordsworth.”

1888. WILLIAMS, T. C. _Andover Review._ Vol. ix. p. 30.

1889. NOBLE, FRED PERRY. _The Homiletic Review._ Vol. xviii. p. 306. “The Value of Wordsworth to the Preacher.”

1873. HIMES, JOHN A. _Lutheran Quarterly Review._ Vol. iii. p. 252. “The Religious Faith of Wordsworth and Tennyson as shown in their Poems.”

1881. JOHNSON, E. E. _American Church Review._ Vol. xxxiii. p. 139. “Influence of Wordsworth’s Poetry.”

1886. COAN, T. M. _The New Princeton Review._ Vol. i. pp. 297-319. “Wordsworth’s Passion.”

1889. VEDDER, H. C. _The New York Examiner_, August 28. “The Decline of Wordsworth.”[572]

1877. COAN, T. M. _The Galaxy._ Vol. xxiii. pp. 322-336. “Wordsworth’s Corrections.”[573]

1881. BOWEN, F. F. _The Dial._ Vol. i. p. 21. “A Review of Myers’ Wordsworth.”

1881. GERHART, R. L. _Reformed Quarterly Review._ Vol. xxviii. p. 344. “Wordsworth and his Art.”

1887. WOODBERRY, G. E. _The Nation._ Vol. xlv. p. 487. “Wordsworth and the Beaumonts.”

1881. BROWNELL, W. C. _The Nation._ Vol. xxxii. p. 153. “Myers’ Account of Wordsworth.”

1872. CROFFUT, W. A. _Lakeside Monthly._ Vol. viii. pp. 418-425. “Wordsworth.”

1895. THORPE, F. W. _The Philadelphia Call._ “The Home of Wordsworth.” Autobiographic and critical.

1879. _Appleton’s Journal._ Vol. xxii. p. 223. “How to Popularise Wordsworth.”

1874. DE-VERE, A. _The Catholic World._ Vol. xix. p. 795. “Recollections of Wordsworth.”

1875. DE-VERE, A. _The Catholic World._ Vol. xxii. p. 329.

1891. PAGE, H. A. _The Century Magazine._ No. 1. pp. 453-864. “Wordsworth and De Quincey. With hitherto unpublished letters.”[574]

1853. _The National Magazine._ Vol. iii. pp. 36-40.

1853. _Brownson’s Quarterly Review._ Vol. xii. 525.

1896. THEODORE W. HUNT in _Bibliotheca Sacra_. No. 66. “William Wordsworth.”

1896. J. W. BRAY. _The Literary Democracy of Wordsworth_ in “Poet Love.” Vol. iii. No. 6.

[568] On “The Homiletic Value of Wordsworth’s Poetry.” One of the ablest papers ever written on Wordsworth. It contains the best reply to Matthew Arnold’s estimate of his poetry.

C. M. ST. JOHN.

[569] This is a review of Rolf’s _Wordsworth’s Selected Poems_. It contains one of the most appreciative tributes to Wordsworth’s influence which has appeared in America.

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[570] On “Wordsworth and the Modern Age.” Illustrated by W. St. J. Harper, and other artists. It deals with the especial need of Wordsworth’s “calming influence in the exacting competition for success,” and gives a comparison between Virgil and Wordsworth.

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[571] Of interest to Americans.

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[572] It aims to give some explanation of the lack of interest in Wordsworth’s poetry in later days.

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[573] An attempt, the writer says, to point out the corrections, leaving their interpretation to the reader.

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[574] Written by an Englishman, but published first in an American magazine.

C. M. ST. JOHN.

VII

VISITS TO WORDSWORTH BY EMINENT AMERICANS

The following books record visits made by eminent Americans to Wordsworth.

C. M. ST. JOHN.

1863. HAWTHORNE, N. _Our Old Home, and English Note-Books._ Vol. ii. pp. 24-56, etc.; also,

1883. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. “A Visit to Wordsworth.”

1856. EMERSON, R. W. _English Traits._ Boston: James Munroe and Co. pp. 24-31; also,

1881. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. Visit to Wordsworth, in chapter entitled “First Visit to England.”

1876. TICKNOR, GEORGE. _Life, Letters, and Journals._ Boston: James R. Osgood and Co. 2 vols. Vol. i. pp. 287, 288, etc. Vol. ii. p. 167, etc.

1836. DEWEY, ORVILLE. _The Old World and the New._ Boston: 2 vols. pp. 89-96.

1884. BRYANT, W. C. Prose Works. In a chapter on “Poets and Poetry of the English Language” (New York: D. Appleton and Co.) a few pages deal with Wordsworth.

VIII

A FEW POEMS ON WORDSWORTH

1846. WALLACE, W. _Poem on Wordsworth._ New York: 12mo.

1850. FIELD, JAMES T. _Graham Magazine_ (October). “Wordsworth.”

1850. ALEXANDER, W. _Graham Magazine_ (November), p. 221. “Wordsworth. (A Sonnet.)”

1850. H. M. R. _Harpers Magazine._ “Sonnet on the Death of Wordsworth.” Vol. i. p. 218.

1850. E. A. W. _Literary World._ “Sonnet on Wordsworth.” Vol. vii. p. 255.

1874. WHITTIER, J. G. Whittier’s Works. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. “Poem on Wordsworth. Written on a blank leaf of _Wordsworth’s Memoirs_, 1851.” Vol. iv. p. 66.

1890. SCOLLARD, CLINTON (?) _Northern Christian Advocate._ “The Poet’s Seat. A Sonnet on Wordsworth. Written at Ambleside, 1890.”

1893. “To Wordsworth, after reading his XXX Ecclesiastical Sonnets” in _The Echo and the Poet_, by William Cushing Bamburgh. N. Y. 1893.

UNPUBLISHED LECTURES ON WORDSWORTH

ESSAYS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

1892. CORSON, HIRAM. “The Divine Immanence in Nature, and the relationship of the human spirit thereto, as presented in Wordsworth’s Poetry.”

WINCHESTER, C. T. “The Lake District and Wordsworth.”

PRENTISS, GEORGE L. “Hurstmonceaux Rectory and Rydal Mount.” (Personal Recollections.)

HOYT, A. S. “Wordsworth, the Man and the Poet.” (Imperfectly reported in _The Houghton Record_.)

III.--_FRANCE_

WORDSWORTH IN FRANCE

By ÉMILE LEGOUIS, Professeur à la Faculté de Lettres, Université de Lyon, France

BIBLIOGRAPHY

There is no separate or whole book on Wordsworth that I know of.

ARTICLES IN MAGAZINES, OR CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

_Voyage historique et littéraire en Angleterre et en Écosse_, par Amédée Pichot (_passim_). 3 vols. in 8. Paris, 1829.[575] An English translation was published in London in 1825.

_Revue Britannique._

Mai 1827. Wordsworth, Crabbe, and Campbell, pp. 61-79, a criticism translated from the _New Monthly Magazine_.

Février 1835. Poésie domestique de la grande Bretagne, translated from the _New Monthly Magazine_.

Janvier 1836, p. 190. Compte-rendu de “Yarrow Revisited and other Poems,” translated from the _Repository of Knowledge_.

_Revue des Deux Mondes._ 1er Août 1835. William Wordsworth, par A. Fontaney.[576]

_Revue Contemporaine._ 15 Décembre 1853. Poètes contemporains de l’Angleterre: William Wordsworth et John Wilson, par L. Étienne.

_Littérature anglaise_ de H. Taine.[577] 1864. Vol. iv. pp. 311-324.

_Études sur la Littérature contemporaine_, par Éd. Schérer.[578]

_Revue critique d’histoire et de littérature._ 16 Janvier 1882. Article de James Darmesteter sur la Biographie de Wordsworth, par Myers.[579]

_Essais de Littérature anglaise_, par James Darmesteter. Paris, 1883.[580]

_Histoire de la Littérature anglaise_, par M. Léon Boucher. Paris, 1890. pp. 355-363.

_La Renaissance de la Poésie anglaise_, par Gabriel Sarrazin. 1887.

_Études et Portraits_, par Paul Bourget. Vol. ii. Études anglaises.[581] 1888.

_Étude sur la Vie et les Œuvres de Robert Burns_, par Auguste Angellier. Paris, 1892. (_Passim_, et surtout vol. ii. pp. 362-393, Étude sur le sentiment de la nature dans Wordsworth et autres poètes anglais contemporains.)

_Le général Michel Beaupuy_, par Georges Bussière et Émile Legouis. Paris, 1891.

[575] Vol. ii. pp. 363-394.--ED.

[576] This was signed Y, which was Fontaney’s pseudonym.--E.L.

[577] Wordsworth et la poésie moderne de l’Angleterre.--_Histoire de la Littérature anglaise_, par H. Taine.--ED.

[578] Vol. vi. pp. 127, 128, and vol. vii. pp. 1-59.--ED.

[579] pp. 227-236.--ED.

[580] pp. 227-236.--ED.

[581] Vol. ii. pp. 83; 126-134.--ED.

TRANSLATIONS

Pas de traduction complète, ni de volume spécial de traductions de Wordsworth.

Une traduction par Fontaney annoncée en 1837 comme devant paraître dans le _Bibliothèque anglo-française_, n’a pas paru.

En dehors des poèmes ou parties de poèmes traduit par les critiques énumérés plus haut, il n’y a guère de traduction en prose de quelque importance.

TRADUCTIONS EN VERS

MADAME AMABLE TASTU. _We are Seven._

SAINTE-BEUVE. _Joseph Delorme._ 1829.

“Le plus long jour de l’année,” p. 88.
Sonnet, “Personal Talk,” p. 123.
“Sonnet sur le Sonnet,” p. 124.

_Consolations._ 1830.

Sonnet, “It is a beauteous evening,” p. 234.
Sonnet, “Not Love, nor War,” p. 239.
Sonnet, “Quand le poète en pleurs,” p. 236.

_Pensées d’Août._ Trois sonnets imités de Wordsworth.

I. “Reposez-vous et remerciez.”
II. “La Cabane du Highlander.”
III. “Le Château de Bothwell.”

Sainte-Beuve cite en outre dans ses _Nouveaux Lundis_ des 21 et 22 Avril 1862, trois sonnets de Wordsworth traduits en vers, par l’Abbé Roussel. Ces traductions assez pauvres de poésie sont celles des sonnets suivants--

“Nuns fret not.…”
“Dark and more dark.…”
“These words were uttered as in pensive mood.”

JEAN AICARD a traduit _We are Seven_ dans _La Chanson de l’Enfant_.

PAUL BOURGET (_Études et Portraits_, vol. ii. _op. cit._) a traduit l’un des sonnets au Duddon.

“What aspect bore the Man …?”

III

INFLUENCE

Wordsworth’s influence on French literature was altogether very slight, nor did it make itself felt till about 1830; when, after a very limited period, it silently died away.

Wordsworth was but little known by his contemporary Châteaubriand, who merely names him among other poets in his _Essai sur la Littérature anglaise_. Byron, Walter Scott, and in a lesser degree Thomas Moore, were the only writers of Great Britain whose works told on our literature at that time. Villemain, in his criticism of Byron, contemptuously dismisses all the so-called lake-poets to fix on his hero. He calls them: “Des métaphysiciens, raisonneurs sans invention, mélancoliques sans passion, qui, dans l’éternelle rêverie d’une vie étroite et peu agitée, n’avaient produit que des singularités sans puissance sur l’imagination des autres hommes. Tel était Woodsworth (_sic_) et le subtil mais non touchant Coléridge.”

To Byron also, and to him alone (Ossian being excepted) among the poets of England, was Lamartine indebted. I am not sure that he names Wordsworth once; but still the striking analogy between the ideas and imaginative style of both cannot fail to be noticed by the reader. Without insisting on a parallel that might be drawn between many pages of _The Excursion_ and of _Jocelyn_, I will only point out two short pieces of Lamartine that bear strong resemblance to two poems of Wordsworth, so much so that they almost read like free imitations--

Lamartine Wordsworth’s

Victor Hugo, so far as I know, only names Wordsworth once, in _L’Âne_--

…Young le pleureur des nuits,
Wordsworth l’esprit des lacs …

M. Sully Prudhomme when he wrote _A l’Hirondelle_ (stanzas, la vie intérieure) appears to have borne in mind _To a Skylark_, “Ethereal minstrel,” etc.

M. Coppée has often been called a French Wordsworth, owing to his poetical collection called _Les Humbles_, wherein he shows the same partiality as the English Poet does for humble themes and characters, together with a bold attempt to naturalise trivial or ludicrous details in serious poetry; but there is no proof, as far as I know, of Wordsworth’s influence having been strong upon him.

If we except two or three disciples of Wordsworth, neither he, nor the lake-poets taken as a whole, seem to have been much thought of, or even read, by our contemporary verse-writers. The word _Lakist_ has generally been used as a synonym for “weak and doleful mysticism.” Ex.:--

(_a_) _Revue Encyclopédique._ 1831. Article de Pierre Leroux, sur la “Poésie de notre Époque.” “L’Angleterre a entendu autour de ses lacs bourdonner comme des ombres plaintives un essaim de poètes abîmés dans une mystique contemplation.”

(_b_) _Journal d’un Poète_, par Alfred de Vigny. (Ed. Michel Lévy. 1867. p. 80.) “Barbier vient de publier _Il Pianto_. Les délices de Capone ont amolli son caractère de poésie et Brizeux a déteint sur lui ses douces couleurs virgiliennes et laquistes (_sic_) dérivant de Sainte-Beuve.”

(_c_) THÉOPHILE GAUTIER (_Portraits Contemporains_, p. 174) almost seems to derive the word _Lakiste_ from Lamartine’s poem called _Le Lac_. He has just mentioned the poem and goes on: “Il ne faut pas croire que Lamartine, parce qu’il y a toujours chez lui une vibration et une résonnance de harpe éolienne, ne soit qu’un mélodieux _lakiste_ et ne sache que soupirer mollement la mélancolie et l’amour. S’il a le soupir, il a la parole et le cri …” (_Journal Officiel_, 8 Mars 1869.)

I now come to the man who, first and foremost among our poets and critics, paid due homage to Wordsworth, _i.e._ Sainte-Beuve. I have already enumerated his several translations in verse from Wordsworth. Strange to say, the voluminous critic has no single article with Wordsworth for its main subject; but, whoever will go through his many volumes will find many judicious and admiring references to the poet.

Moreover, as a poet, Sainte-Beuve has endeavoured to naturalise in France the poetic style that has been associated with the name of Wordsworth. He expressly claims Wordsworth as one of his masters in his _Consolations_ xviii. “A Antony Deschamps.” Among his bosom-poets he reckons--

…Wordsworth peu connu, qui des lacs solitaires
Sait tòus les bleus reflets, les bruits et les mystères,
Et qui, depuis trente ans vivant au même lieu,
En contemplation devant le même Dieu,
A travers les soupirs de la mousse et de l’onde,
Distingue, au soir, des chants venus d’un meilleur monde.

The original attempt of Sainte-Beuve (for he was original in his very choice of Wordsworth as a model at a time when Byron engrossed all the admiration of the French poets) has been ably characterised by Théophile Gautier in his “Portraits Contemporains” (pp. 208, 209), an article reprinted from _La Gazette de Paris_, 19 Novembre 1871:--

“(Sainte-Beuve) avait été en poésie un inventeur. Il avait
donné une note nouvelle et toute moderne, et de tout le cénacle
c’était à coup sûr le plus réellement romantique. Dans cette
humble poésie qui rappelle par la sincérité du sentiment et
la minutie du détail observé sur nature, les vers de Crabbe,
de Wordsworth, et de Cowper, Sainte-Beuve s’est frayé de
petits sentiers à mi-côte, bordés d’humbles fleurettes, où nul
en France n’a passé avant lui. Sa facture un peu laborieuse
et compliquée vient de la difficulté de réduire à la forme
métrique des idées et des images non exprimées encore ou
dédaignées jusque-là, mais que de morceaux merveilleusement
venus où l’effort n’est plus sensible!”

Sainte-Beuve’s admiration of Wordsworth is a well-known fact. Less generally known is the influence of this admiration on several poets of that time (_circa_ 1830-40), who, either through Sainte-Beuve’s imitations, or with a direct knowledge of Wordsworth’s poems, to the reading of which they had thus been stimulated, offer great marks of resemblance with Wordsworth. I have quoted a judgment of De Vigny that considers Brizeux and Barbier as having turned _laquistes_ through Sainte-Beuve. I know no other immediate proof of this influence. Perhaps Barbier and Brizeux have consigned it somewhere. Anyhow Brizeux with his glorification of his youthful years and school-time, with his intense love of his native Brittany, his fond attachment to local customs and habits, his lamentations on the death of the poetical poet as embodied in his own province (_Élégie de la Bretagne_), is to all extent and purposes the most thoroughly Wordsworthian of all our poets. There may be more of Wordsworth’s _philosophy_ in Lamartine, but there is more of his _poetry_ proper in Brizeux.

The influence of Wordsworth on Maurice de Guérin and Hippolyte de la Morvonnais, is more easily ascertained than the preceding. Here, again, Sainte-Beuve appears to have been the intermediate agent.[582]

In 1832-33 Maurice de Guérin, fresh from the reading of the _Consolations_, and De la Morvonnais, who came to be a direct admirer of the Lake Poets, and chiefly of Wordsworth, set to write short poems which they aspired to make as little different from prose as possible, rejecting all traditional ornaments, and making little of the rhythmical improvements of the _Romantiques_ proper. Some of those pieces were inserted in a local paper as downright prose (no stop intervening at the end of the lines), whereas the said paper would not have made room for verse.[583] This looks like trifling, but the earnestness of this attempted revolution is shown in the interesting poems of Maurice de Guérin. Another outcome of this was an intended publication on Wordsworth, of which it is impossible to say whether it was to be a criticism, or a translation, of the English Poet. It is thus mentioned in a letter of Guérin to De la Morvonnais of June 30, 1836: “Nous avons adressé des circulaires à un grand nombre d’éditeurs pour l’impression Wordsworth. Nous attendons la réponse d’un moment à l’autre.” The answer must have been unfavourable, as nothing more was heard of the intended publication.

The early death of Guérin left it for De la Morvonnais alone to spread the influence of Wordsworth’s poetry in France. Of him we read in Sainte-Beuve’s _Étude sur Maurice de Guérin_:--

“La Morvonnais, vers ce temps même (1834), en était fort
préoccupé (des lakistes et de leur poésie), au point d’aller
visiter Wordsworth à sa résidence de Rydal Mount, près des lacs
du Westmoreland, et de rester en correspondance avec ce grand
et pacifique esprit, avec ce patriarche de la Muse intime.
Guérin, sans tant y songer, ressemblait mieux aux Lakistes en
ne visant nullement à les imiter.”

Of the supposed correspondence between Wordsworth and De la Morvonnais no trace remains. M. Hippolyte de la Blanchardière, De la Morvonnais’ grandson, has informed me that in the collection of his grandfather’s letters there is no letter of Wordsworth to be found. That at least a Study of Wordsworth existed at the time is proved by the following preface to his poem _La Thébaïde des Grèves_, written by his friend A. Duquesnel (ed. by Didier, Quai des Augustins. 1864. p. xxvii.)

“Nous avons trouvé dans les _Reliquiae_ du poète de
l’Arguenon[584] de précieuses études sur les lakistes. Il
s’était passionné pour ces hommes dans les dix dernières années
de sa vie (1843-53).[585] Wordsworth lui semblait plus grand
que Byron, qu’il trouvait trop emphatique, trop solennel,
pas assez près de la nature. L’auteur de _l’Excursion_ a
exercé une pénétrante influence sur l’esprit et le cœur de la
Morvonnais, nous trouvons dans ses cahiers des traductions
en vers de Wordsworth, de Coléridge, de Crabbe, qui, lui, ne
faisait pas partie de ce groupe. Nous les publierons peut-être
un jour; elles ont d’autant plus d’intérêt que l’on ne connaît
guère les lakistes en France, que par de rares extraits. Il
s’était livré, comme on le verra, à une étude approfondie de la
littérature anglaise. Son admiration pour Walter Scott était
inexprimable.”

The study and translations above-mentioned have also been lost, many manuscripts of De la Morvonnais having been destroyed.

It remains for me to point out some allusions to, or imitations of, Wordsworth in the existing verse of De la Morvonnais.

In the _Thébaïde des Grèves_ (1838), “Le Petit Patour” is a close imitation of _We are Seven_, the conclusion being--

Cet enfant en sait plus que moi sur l’existence;
Savoir vivre est savoir souffrir avec constance.

“Le Vagabond,” a story of a vagrant by whom the poet is taught resignation, is an imitation of _Resolution and Independence_.

In “A Sainte-Beuve” are found these two lines--

J’ai posé sous mon bras mon penseur solitaire,
Mon Wordsworth tant aimé de l’amant du mystère.

In “Dispersion, à Mistress Hemans,” etc., we read this--

Nous primes un poète, une femme angélique
Dont peu savent chez nous la voix mélancolique,
Disciple de Wordsworth, le sublime penseur,
Des lakistes chéris je la nomme la sœur.

In “Dernières Paroles” we find this praise of Wordsworth--

Or, ce soir-là, je lus un homme de génie;
Celui dont la mystique et profonde harmonie
Sonne pour les élus des poétiques dons,
Et soulève notre âme en ses grands abandons …
…Oh! ne pourrai-je voir
Ces lacs du Westmoreland, mon désir, mon espoir?
…
Cet homme est honoré des puissances secrètes;
Lui mort, à ses beaux lacs, romantiques retraites,
Des pèlerins viendront, penseurs religieux.
Le monde méconnut l’homme mélodieux.

I pass over many sonnets, and divers other poems, in which the influence of Wordsworth is unmistakable, and come to a last quotation which is useful to elucidate an allusion in Wordsworth’s _The Poet’s Dream: Sequel to the Norman Boy_. In this poem, written in 1842, Wordsworth says--

But oh! that Country-man of thine, whose eye, loved Child, can see
A pledge of endless bliss in acts of early piety,
In verse, which to thy ear might come, would treat this simple theme,
Nor leave untold our happy flight in that adventurous dream.

As Wordsworth read very little French poetry in his old age, I think he here alludes to a poem of his admirer De la Morvonnais, who very likely sent him that _Thébaïde des Grèves_ (1838), in which Wordsworth was so highly praised. The passage alluded to is taken from “Solitude,” and reads thus--

Enfant, Il (Dieu) te promet le domaine de l’ange
Si tu gardes l’amour et la foi des aïeux,
Et sa mère, aujourd’hui loin de l’humaine fange,
Que tu n’as pas connue et qui t’attend aux cieux.

As a whole, De la Morvonnais, though he imitates Wordsworth, is very unlike him. Of course I do not mean to compare the two, but even in like subjects he differs from Wordsworth, owing to a sort of constitutional nervousness and brooding melancholy.[586]

[582] Voir Maurice de Guérin, _Journal, Lettres et Poèmes_, publiés par J. S. Trébutien avec Préface de Sainte-Beuve (1860).--E.L.

[583] In the above work--_Séjour de M. de Guérin en Bretagne; Impressions et Souvenirs de M. François du Breil de Marzan_, pp. 434-441.--E.L.

[584] H. de la Morvonnais.--E.L.

[585] A mistake: his admiration of Wordsworth began before 1832.--E.L.

[586] In _Voyage historique et littéraire en Angleterre et en Écosse_, par Amédée Puchot, Lettre XXIV. there are numerous references to Wordsworth. It begins with a quotation from _Tintern Abbey_. In Lettre LXV. there is additional critical reference to Wordsworth and Coleridge. In the _Album poétique des jeunes personnes_, par Mme. Tastu, there is a “Sonnet imité de Wordsworth,” by St. Beuve, pp. 101, 102.

C’est un beau soir, un soir paisible et solennel,
A la fin du saint jour la nature en prière
Le tait, comme Marie à genoux sur la pierre, etc.--ED.

See also the _Nouveaux Lundis_ of St. Beuve, 21 and 22 Avril 1862, where there are “trois sonnets traduits en vers par l’Abbé Roussel” from Wordsworth.

ERRATA AND ADDENDA LIST

REFERRING TO VOLUMES I. TO VIII.

1. _Inistar omnium._--I wish to explain the accidental omission of Mr. T. Hutchinson’s name amongst those who helped me in Volumes I. and II. (see the prefatory note to this volume), and also that of Mr. Hill. It was due to my returning, “for press,” an uncorrected copy of my Preface.

2. Vol. ii. p. 106, _Ruth_, l. 54--The following extract from Bartram’s _Travels_, etc., illustrates Wordsworth’s debt to him:--

Proceeding on our return to town in the cool of the evening
… we enjoyed a most enchanting view; … companies of young
innocent Cherokee virgins, some busy gathering the rich
fragrant fruit, others having already filled their baskets, lay
reclined under the shade of floriferous and fragrant native
bowers … disclosing their beauties to the fluttering breeze
… whilst other parties, more gay and libertine, were yet
collecting strawberries, or wantonly chasing their companions,
tantalising them, staining their lips and cheeks with the ripe
fruit.

3. In vol. ii. p. 348, the date of publication should be Sept. 17, 1802, not 1803.

4. In _The Prelude_ (vol. iii. p. 202, book v. l. 26) the quotation which I could not trace is from Shakespeare, Sonnet No. 64--

This thought is as a death, which cannot choose
But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

5. Vol. v. p. 113 (_The Excursion_, book iii. l. 187).--Mr. William E. Walcott--Laurence, Mass. U.S.A.--sends me the following variant readings, which he has found in a copy of the edition of 1814--

… crystal tube
Be lodged therein …

P. 151, book iv. l. 187--

Nor sleep, nor …

6. Vol. vii. p. 276.--This sonnet first appeared in the _New Monthly Magazine_, part ii. p. 26, under the title, _To B. R. Haydon. Composed on seeing his Picture of Napoleon, musing at St. Helena_; and it is dated “Saturday, June 11th, 1831.”

7. Vol. vii. p. 336.--This poem was published in the _Saturday Magazine_, May 18, 1844, in which the fifth line is--

Woe to the purblind men who fill.

8. It may be worth mentioning (1) that the quotation (not noted, unfortunately, where it occurs)--

Some natural tears she drops, but wipes them soon,

is from _Paradise Lost_, book xii. l. 645. See also _An Elegy delivered at the Hot Wells_, Bristol, July 1789. (2) That the phrase “numerous verse” is from _Paradise Lost_, book v. l. 150; and (3) that “lenient hand of Time” is from Bowles’ sonnet--

O Time, who know’st a lenient hand to lay
Softest on sorrow’s wound.

Amongst those which I have failed to trace are the following:

_Ecclesiastical Sonnets_, II. xxxiv.--

… murtherer’s chain partake,
Corded, and burning at the social stake.

xlv.--

… in the painful art of dying

_The Russian Fugitive_, Part II. l. 51--

… if house it be or bower.

_Elegiac Musings_, l. 41--

Let praise be mute where I am laid.

_Stanzas suggested in a Steamboat off Saint Bees’ Heads_, l. 37--

Cruel of heart were they, bloody of hand.

INDEX TO THE POEMS

VOL. PAGE

Aar, The Fall of the vi 308

Abbeys, Old vii 100

Address from the Spirit of Cockermouth Castle vii 347

Address to a Child iv 50

Address to Kilchurn Castle ii 400

Address to my Infant Daughter, Dora iii 14

Address to the Scholars of the Village School of ---- ii 84

Admonition iv 34

Æneid, Translation of Part of the First Book of the viii 276

“Aerial Rock--whose solitary brow” vi 187

Affliction of Margaret--, The iii 7

Afflictions of England vii 72

After-Thought (Duddon) vi 263

After-Thought (Tour on the Continent) vi 315

Airey-Force Valley viii 146

Aix-la-Chapelle vi 295

“Alas! what boots the long laborious quest” iv 216

Alban Hills, From the viii 65

Albano, At viii 64

Alfred vii 24

Alfred, His Descendants vii 25

Alice Fell; or, Poverty ii 272

Aloys Reding vi 310

Ambleside viii 156

America, Aspects of Christianity in (Three Sonnets) vii 84

American Episcopacy vii 85

American Tradition vi 246

Ancient History, On a celebrated Event in (Two Sonnets) iv 242

Andrew Jones viii 221

Anecdote for Fathers i 234

Animal Tranquillity and Decay i 307

Anticipation (October 1803) ii 436

Anticipation of leaving School, Composed in i 1

Apennines, Among the Ruins of a Convent in the viii 82

Apology (Ecclesiastical Sonnets, 1st part) vii 18

Apology (Ecclesiastical Sonnets, 2nd part) vii 55

Apology (Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death) viii 112

Apology (Yarrow Revisited) vii 309

Applethwaite, At iii 23

Aquapendente, Musings near viii 42

Armenian Lady’s Love, The vii 232

Artegal and Elidure vi 45

Authors, A plea for, viii 99

Author’s Portrait, To the vii 318

Autumn (September) vi 64

Autumn (Two Poems) vi 201

Avarice, The last Stage of ii 60

Avon, The (Annan) vii 303

Bala-Sala, At vii 365

Balbi iv 237

Ballot, Protest against the viii 304

Bangor, Monastery of Old vii 13

Baptism vii 89

Barbara ii 178

Beaumont, Sir George, Epistle to iv 256

Beaumont, Sir George, Upon perusing the foregoing Epistle to iv 267

Beaumont, Sir George, Picture of Peele Castle, painted by iii 54

Beaumont, Sir George, Beautiful Picture, painted by iv 271

Beaumont, Sir George, Elegiac Stanzas addressed to vii 132

Beaumont, To Lady iv 57

Beggar, The Old Cumberland i 299

Beggars (Two Poems) ii 276

“‘Beloved Vale!’ I said, ‘when I shall con’” iv 35

Benefits, Other (Two Sonnets) vii 40

Bible, Translation of the vii 58

Binnorie, The Solitude of ii 204

Bird of Paradise, Coloured Drawing of the viii 29

Bird of Paradise, Suggested by a Picture of viii 140

Biscayan Rite (Two Sonnets) iv 241

Bishops, Acquittal of the vii 79

Bishops and Priests vii 86

Black Comb, Inscription on a Stone on the side of iv 281

Black Comb, View from the top of iv 279

“Blest Statesman He, whose Mind’s unselfish will” viii 101

Bologna, At (Three Sonnets) viii 85

Bolton Priory, The Founding of iv 204

Books and Newspapers, Illustrated viii 184

Borderers, The i 112

Bothwell Castle vii 299

Boulogne, On being stranded near the Harbour of vi 378

Bran, Effusion on the Banks of the vi 28

Breadalbane, Ruined Mansion of the Earl of vii 295

Brientz, Scene on the Lake of vi 315

Brigham, Nun’s Well vii 347

Britons, Struggle of the vii 11

Brothers, The ii 184

Brothers Water, Bridge at the foot of ii 293

Brougham Castle, Song at the Feast of iv 82

Brownie’s Cell vi 16

Brownie, The vii 297

Brugès (Two Poems) vi 288

Brugès, Incident at vii 198

Buonaparté ii 323

Buonaparté ii 331

Buonaparté iv 228

Burial in the South of Scotland, A Place of vii 285

Burns, At the Grave of ii 379

Burns, Thoughts suggested near the Residence of ii 383

Burns, To the Sons of ii 386

Butterfly, To a ii 383

Butterfly, To a ii 297

Calais, August 1802 ii 331

Calais, August 15, 1802 ii 334

Calais, Composed by the Seaside, near ii 330

Calais, Composed near ii 332

Calais, Composed on the Beach, near ii 335

Calais, Fish-women at vi 286

Calvert, Raisley iv 44

Camaldoli, At the Convent of (Three Sonnets) viii 72

Canute vii 27

Canute and Alfred vi 130

Castle, Composed at ---- ii 410

“Castle of Indolence,” Written in my Pocket Copy of
Thomson’s ii 305

Casual Incitement vii 14

Catechising vii 91

Cathedrals, etc. vii 105

Catholic Cantons, Composed in one of the (Two Poems) vi 312

Celandine, The Small iii 21

Celandine, To the Small (Two Poems) ii 300

Cenotaph (Mrs. Fermor) vii 135

Chamouny, Processions in the Vale of vi 363

Character, A ii 208

Charles the First, Troubles of vii 71

Charles the Second vii 75

Chatsworth vii 272

Chaucer, Selections from (Three Poems) ii 238

Chiabrera, Epitaphs translated from iv 229

Chichely, Archbishop, to Henry V. vii 47

Child, Address to a iv 50

Child, Characteristics of a, three years old iv 252

Child, To a (Written in her Album) viii 7

Childless Father, The ii 181

Christianity in America, Aspects of (Three Sonnets) vii 84

Churches, New vii 102

Church to be erected (Two Sonnets) vii 103

Churchyard, New vii 104

Cintra, Convention of (Two Sonnets) iv 210

Cistertian Monastery vii 37

Clarkson, Thomas, To iv 62

Clergy, Corruptions of the Higher vii 49

Clergy, Emigrant French vii 101

Clerical Integrity vii 78

Clermont, The Council of vii 30

Clifford, Lord iv 82

Clouds, To the viii 142

Clyde, In the Frith of, Ailsa Crag vii 369

Clyde, On the Frith of vii 370

Cockermouth Castle, Address from the Spirit of vii 347

Cockermouth, In sight of vii 346

Coleorton, Elegiac Musings in the grounds of vii 269

Coleorton, A Flower Garden at vii 125

Coleorton, Inscription for an Urn in the grounds of iv 78

Coleorton, Inscription for a Seat in the groves of iv 80

Coleorton, Inscription in a garden of iv 76

Coleorton, Inscription in the grounds of iv 74

Coleridge, Hartley, To ii 351

Collins, Remembrance of i 33

Cologne, In the Cathedral at vi 297

Commination Service vii 96

Complaint, A iv 17

“Complete Angler,” Written on a blank leaf in the vi 190

Conclusion (Duddon) vi 262

Conclusion (Ecclesiastical Sonnets) vii 108

Conclusion (Miscellaneous Sonnets) vii 177

Conclusion (Prelude) iii 367

Conclusion (Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death) viii 111

Confirmation (Two Sonnets) vii 92

Congratulation vii 102

Conjectures vii 5

Contrast, The. The Parrot and the Wren vii 141

Convent in the Apennines viii 82

Convention of Cintra, Composed while writing a Tract
occasioned by the (Two Sonnets) iv 210

Conversion vii 17

Convict, The viii 217

Cora Linn, Composed at vi 26

Cordelia M----, To vii 400

Cottage Girls, The Three vi 351

Cottager to her Infant, The iii 74

Council of Clermont, The vii 30

Countess’ Pillar vii 307

Covenanters, Persecution of the Scottish vii 79

Cranmer vii 62

Crosthwaite Church viii 157

Crusaders vii 41

Crusades vii 31

Cuckoo and the Nightingale, The ii 250

Cuckoo at Laverna, The viii 67

Cuckoo Clock, The viii 151

Cuckoo, To the ii 289

Cuckoo, To the vii 169

Cumberland Beggar, The Old i 299

Cumberland Beggar, The Old, MS. Variants viii 220

Cumberland, Coast of (In the Channel) vii 358

Cumberland, On a high part of the coast of vii 337

Daffodils, The iii 4

Daisy, To the (Two Poems) ii 353

Daisy, To the ii 360

Daisy, To the iii 51

Daniel, Picture of (Hamilton Palace) vii 303

Danish Boy, The ii 96

Danish Conquests vii 27

Danube, The Source of the vi 303

Dati, Roberto iv 234

Dedication (Miscellaneous Sonnets) vii 159

Dedication (Tour on the Continent) vi 285

Dedication (White Doe of Rylstone) iv 102

Dedication (White Doe of Rylstone) vi 42

Departure from the Vale of Grasmere ii 377

“Deplorable his lot who tills the ground” vii 38

Derwent, To the River vi 193

Derwent, To the River vii 345

Descriptive Sketches i 35

Descriptive Sketches i 309

Desultory Stanzas vi 382

Detraction which followed the Publication of a certain
Poem, On the vi 212

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