gg^ ^ A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH ) A K. ^ *■■ '^^ / .' ' c z' ^ , X •- /^ y ^-.'^-i* Sonnet xlii [Miscellaneous SonJie/s, 1845^ A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH THOMAS J. WISE Fcllozv of ihe Royal Society of Littialnre LONDON : PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY By Richard Clay & Sons, Ltd. 1916 REPLACING 3<^ ^^' OS Ov 'iHis Book One Hundrkd Copiks Only HAVH r.V.KN PrINTKD. M895517' PREFACE In compiling the following Bibliography my primary object has been to give a concise account, accompanied by accurate collations, of the Books and Pamphlets of William Wordsworth, together with a list of his con- tributions to Newspapers and Annuals. To this I have added a list of such volumes of Biography and Criticism as are devoted exclusively to the consideration of his life and work. A secondary object has been to direct attention to the very considerable differences that exist in the text of his poems as they reappeared in successive editions. I doubt if any poet ever revised his verses after their original publication to a greater extent than that accomplished by Wordsworth. During the passage of his books through the press he was a constant source of worry and anxiety to his several printers, sending them revision after revision, and adding passage after passage, up to the last available moment. Furthermore, he never ceased to amend his poems to a lesser or greater degree upon the opportunity afforded by each new edition. Hence from 1798 to 1845 every edition that appeared is of interest and value to the student of text. Fresh X PREFACE. titles constantly present themselves, and new readings occur with each succeeding date. There is one peculiarity in the method of publication adopted by Wordsworth which is, in view of the very considerable bulk to which his work in Prose and Poetry finally attained, somewhat striking. This is the fact that subsequently to 1822 he practically ceased to conform to the usual custom of publishing single volumes consisting wholly of new verse. Instead he added to each successive edition of his collected works such poems as had been cither written or completed during the interval that had elapsed since the issue of its immediate predecessor. The only substantial exception to this rule was the appear- ance in 1835 of Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems. Hence each one of the several editions which appeared during his lifetime might conceivably be regarded as possessing a claim to rank as a priiiceps. I cannot refrain from drawing attention to one point which has impressed itself upon me during the many years that I have been engaged in gathering the books and pamphlets of Wordsworth, although the hint is of interest to the Collector alone, and is of small concern to the Student. This is the fact that these books, when in proper condition throughout, are far more uncommon than they are usually supposed to be. Soiled, damaged, and rebound copies of most of them are sufficiently abundant ; but my own experience lias been that to acquire a complete series of the books and pamphlets in their original state, and in clean and sound condition, is by no means an easy task. PREFACE. xi No effort has been spared to make the Hst included in Part II. of the Bibh'ography as full as possible. But I am conscious that to claim it as complete would be to indulge in unjustified optimism. I am persuaded that more items might be added to it with advantage. In particular many letters by Wordsworth must be lurking in the pages of magazines, and in volumes of biography and reminiscence, which have so far eluded my search, or have failed to come under my notice. I should be grateful for a note of any additions to my list, should such be known to any reader of this Bibliography. My very hearty thanks are due to Miss Arnold, of Fox How, and to Mr. Gordon Wordsworth, the poet's grandson, for generously permitting the reproduction of manuscripts in their possession, which form so attractive and useful a portion of the illustrations to the present Bibliography. To Mr. Robert Alfred Potts I must offer equal thanks for the sympathetic aid he has unceasingly given me during the years I have spent in collecting and studying the writings of Wordsworth. To Mr. Herbert T. Butler also I am grateful alike for the loan of rare books from his library, and for assistance in checking the successive proofs of my volume. I presume it is hardly necessary to observe that every edition of every book and pamphlet dealt with in the following pages has been described de visti. T. J. W^ 25, Heath Drive., Hampsiead, N. W. CONTENTS PART I. EDITIONES PRINCIPES i'AGK Preface ix An Evening Walk, 1793 5 Descriptive Sketches, 1793 9 Lyrical Ballads, 1798^: First Issue {Bristol) 14 Second Issue {Loudon) 28 Lyrical Ballads, 1800 34 1802 50 1S05 52 Poems, 1807 59 Concerning the Relations of Great Britain, Spain, and Portugal, 1809 72 The Excursion, 1814 80 Poems, 181 5 87 The White Doe of Rylstone, 1S15 99 xin CONTJ'.NTS. pA(;i£ A Lettkr to a Friend of Rohert Burns, i8i6 . . loi Thanksgiving Ode, i8i6 102 Two Addresses to the Freeholders of Westmoreland, 1818 105 Peter Bell, a Tale in Verse, 1819 106 The Waggoner, a Poem, 18 19 11 1 The River Duddon, a Series of Sonnets, 1S20 . . 113 Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1822 . . 120 Ecclesiastical Sketches, 1822 126 A Description of the Scenery of the Lakes, 1822 . 134 Ode to the Memory of Charles Lamb, 1835 . . .139 Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems, 1835 . . .141 SoNNpyrs, 1838 152 Poems of Early and Late Years, 1842 . , . .154 The Loss of St. Mary's Church, 1842 156 Grace Darling, 1843 159 Verses Composed at the Re()uest of Jane Wallis Penfold, 1844 160 Kendal and Windermere Railway, 1845 .... 162 Verses to the Queen, 1846 164 Ode Performed in the Senate-House, Cambridge First Editiotu 1847 167 First PiiblisJicil Edition, 1847 168 CONTENrS. The Prelude, 1850 ....... The Recluse, 1888 LETTER.S FROM THE LaKE POETS, '889 Poems and Extracts for an Album, 1905 . Letters of the Wordsworth Family, 1907 The Law of Copyright 171 174 178 180 180 iSi PART II. Contributions to Periodical Literature, etc. 1S3 PART III. Collected Editions 217 PART IV. Wordsworthiana : Complete Volumes of Biography and Criticism 235 PART I. EDITIONES PRINCIPES, etc. V E N I N G W A L K. An EPISTLE; In verse.. ADDRESSED to a Young. LADY, FROM THE L 4 K E S O F T H E NORTH. OF E N G L A N D. W . WORDSWORTH, B. A. Of St. JOHN'S, CAMBRIDGE. L .0 H D .V; Pkiwted for J» Johnson, St, Pail's Church-Yard. PART I. EDITIOiNES PRINCIPES, etc. (I) [An Evening Walk: 1793] An / Evening Walk. / An Epistle ; / In Verse. / Addressed to a You no- 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. / 1793- Collation :— Quarto, pp. vi + 27; consisting of: Title-page, as above (with blank reverse) pp. i — ii ; List of Errata (with blank reverse) pp. iii — iv ; Argument (with blank reverse) pp. v — vi ; and Text of An Evejiing IVa/k pp. i — 27. The reverse of p. 27 is occupied by an advertisement of Descriptive Sketches, which is announced as '' Jnft publif/ied, by the fame Authoi-r There are no head-lines, the pages being numbered centrally in Arabic numerals, enclosed within square brackets. The signatures are A (3 5 6 BIIILIOGRAPIIV OF IVORDSWORl H . leaves), B to D (3 sheets, each 4 leaves), plus E (a half-sheet of 2 leaves). The book was issued with- out any half-title. Issued stitched, and without wrappers. The leaves measure 1 1 X 8f inches. The published price was Two Shillings. Contents. PAGE An Evening Walk, [/v?/- from my dearest friend, 'tis mine to rove] i The 'young lady' lo whom .1// Evening' JFn//; ^\^s addressed was Dorothy Wordsworth, the poet's sister. In regard to the poem itself Wordsworth wrote : " // 7C'cis eoinposcd at school, and during my first two College vacations. There is not an image in it wliich I hai'e not ol>servcd : and, no7V in my seventy-third year, I recollect the time and place when most of tJiem were noticed. .... The plan of it was not con- fined to a particular tvalk, or an individual place, — a proof {of ic'hich / 7C'as unco/iSii(>iis at the time) (f mv 7tn7villiniiness to submit the poetic spirit to the claims of fact and i-eal circumstance. The countrv is idealised rather than described in any one of its local aspects.'' The original 1793 Quarto of An Evening JValk is an extremely rare book ; I doubt whether more than six or seven examples — exclusive of two imperfect copies which I have seen recently — could be recorded to-day. A greatly reduced facsimile of the title-page is given herewith. An Evening Walk, with the original text as published in 1793, was never reproduced l)y ^^'ordsworth. brief extracts only from the poem were included in the Poems of 1S15, vol. i, p]). 64 — 69, and these were classed among the Juvenile Pieces. Far more • Jg l p p f' h 4* J ft ■■CXM't r- ..,.^f./if.'C '■'J f. vl' •J /tJ'//'- C^^l■'y'J ,^//^/ o^ "^^'^ ^)C^'''^<^, '.i'^-*-*.-*^ ''^:;,^;.u/.v ..-/^ f^nSC^Or^y^-^ ^V .-x- i>a W . Ta ,^li n IWpa Bi |j|WH) | » < |g i | i lttiU .-/;/ Evening Walk, lines 142 — 153 EDITIONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 9 liberal extracts were given in the 4 Vol. edition of the Poems, published in 1820. The first, 1793, edition of An Evening JJ'alk extended to 446 lines. The extracts, three in number, printed in 18 15, consisted of 106 of these lines, plus 2 new ones, making ic8 in all. In the edition of 1820 these were increased to no less than 405 lines ; but in the last edition of his Foenis published by Wordsworth himself 378 lines only were preserved. In recent years the original text of An Evening Walk has been reproduced by Professor Dowden, and by other editors of Wordsworth's Collected Works. There is a copy of the First Edition of An Evening Wall; in the Library of the British Museum. The Pressmark is C. 58. g. 9- (2) [Descriptive Sketches : 1793] Descriptive Sketches. / In Verse. / Taken dLirin_L;- a / Pedestrian Tour / in the / Itahan, Grison, Swiss, and Savoyard / Alps. / By / \V. Words- worth, B.A. / of St. John's, Cambridge. / Loca pajtonun defcrta atqiic otia dia. / Lucret. / Caftclla in tunmlis — / — Et loiigc faltns latcqiic vacantes. j Virgil. / London: / Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church- Yard. / 1793. Collation: — Quarto, pp. iv-f 55 ; consisting of : Title-page, as above (with blank reverse) pp. i — ii ; p. iii is blank ; List oi Errata p. iv ; Dedication " To the Rev. Robert Jones, Felloiv of St. JoJuis College, Cambridge, " lo lUllLIOGRArilY OF WORDSIVORTIL pp. I — 2 ; Argument (with blank reverse; pp. 3 — 4; and Text of Descriptive Skctclies pp. 5 — 55. The rcvcr.se of p. 55 i.s occupied by an advertisement of All Evetiniii \Valk\ wliich is described as ''Juft piiblif/ied, by the fame Aut/ior." There are no head- Hnes, the pages being numbered centrall}' in Arabic numerals, enclosed within stjuarc brackets. The signatures are A (2 leaves), and 15 to H (7 sheets, each 4 leaves). The volume was issued without any half-title. Issued stitched, and without wrappers. The leaves measure I I j x8^ inches. The imblished price was Tiiree Shillings. Co/ifcnfs. Descriptive Skeiches. [ lVe?-e t/i-iw hehrw, a spot of kolv groinid\ 5 " Afitc/i the greater part of this poem was composed during mv 7vaths npo/i the tnin/cs (f the Loire, in the rears 1791 — 1792. / 'viti only notice t/iat the description of the valley filled with mist, l?eginning ''In solemn shapes,' 7C>as taken from that beautijnl region oj ivhieh the principal features are Lungirn and Sarnen. Nothing that I ever saw in Natii7-e left a more delightful impression on my mind than that lohich I have attempted, alas, hoiv feebly f to convey to others in these lines. Those two lakes have akvays interested me especially, from bearing in their size and other features, a resemblance to those of the north of England. It is much to be deplored that a district so beautiful sh(n;ld be so unheal thv as it is.''' — [Wordsworth.] The original 1793 Quarto of Descriptive Sketches is also an extremely rare book, though not so exces.sively rare as it was DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES. . I N ^r E R S E. ■ TAKEN DURING A PEDESTRIAN TOUR I N T ri r. ITALIAN, GRISON, SWISS, and SAVOYARD yl LPS, BY W. WORDSWORTH, B. A. Of St. JOHN'S, CAMBRIDGE. —Loca paftoiuiM tkferca atque otia dia. ,-. /I I, ■ " ■• LrcREi, Caltella in cumulis — — Et longe faltus latequ'e vacantcs. L N n N: Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yarp. 1793- EDITIONES PR INC/PES, ETC. 13 presumed to be by Professor Knight, who stated that he was " only aware of the existence of a single copy." I know of fully half a dozen copies at the present moment, and other examples will doubtless be unearthed as time goes on. One particularly interesting specimen, originally ])resented by Dorothy Words- worth to Coleridge, was purchased at Bristol in 1850 by Professor Reed, who in turn presented it to Mrs. H. N. Coleridge. A greatly reduced facsimile of the title-page is given herewith. The original text of Descriptive Sketches, as printed in the Quarto of 1793, was never reproduced by Wordsworth. In 1815, when preparing the Poems of that date, he contented himself with selecting a few short passages. These he inserted among the Juvenile Pieces, vol. i, pp. 70 — 84. However, in the Poems of 1820 a far larger proportion of the Sketches was admitted. No censor could have been more severe than was Wordsworth himself when, in later years, he pruned and emasculated his early poems. In the case of Descriptive Stretches Professor Harper has rightly observed — '■^ Many of the alterations ivere made in the interest of clearness and artistic finish, but some were attempts to ?noderate, discreetly if not prudishly, one or tivo passages of gloiving description, and to take the very heart out of passages pulsing with ardent enthusiasm for liberty."' The first, 1793, edition of Descriptive Sketches extended to 813 lines. The extracts, seven in number, printed in 181 5, con- sisted of 311 lines only. In the Poems of 1820 these were increased to 721 lines; but in the last edition prepared by Wordsworth himself they were again reduced to 670 lines. In recent years the original text has been reprinted in the editions of Wordsworth's Collected Works, prepared by Professor Dowden and other editors. There is a copy of the First Edition of Descriptive Sketches in Verse in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C. ^S.il. Tv H BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. (3) [Lyrical Ballads : 1798] Lyrical / Ballads, / With / A Few Other Poems. / I)ristol : / Printed by Biggs and Cottle, / For T. N. Longman, Paternoster- Row, London. / 1798. Collation: — Foolscap octavo, pp. x + 210; consisting of: Title-page, as above (with blank reverse) pp. i-ii ; Preface (styled Advertiscineiit) pp. iii — vii ; p. viii is blank ; TahXeo^ Contents {\\'\\.\\ blank reverse) pp. ix — X ; Fly-title to T/ie Rime of the A ncyent JMariuere (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Argument {\\\\\\ blank reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; Text of The Rime pp. 5 — 5 i ; ]). 52 is blank ; Text of The Foster-Mothers Tale, &c. l^P- 53 — 67 ; P- 6S i"^ blank ; Text of The Female Vagrant and Goody Blake pp. 69 — 93 ; p. 94 is blank ; Text of miscellaneous Poems pp 95 — 146 ; Fly-title to The Idiot Toy (with blank reverse) pp. 147 — 148 ; and Text of The Idiot Boy, &c., \i\). 149 — 210. Following p. 210 is a leaf with a List of Five Errata upon its recto, the reverse blank. There are no head-lines, the pages being numbered centrall)- in Arabic numerals. Beyond that upon the foot of the title-page there is no printer's imprint. The signatures are A to N (13 sheets, each 8 leaves) plus (3 (i leaf), followed by an unsigned quarter-sheet of two leaves, the first of which has upon its recto the List of Errata, the reverse blank, whilst the second is occupied by the list of Books published for Joseph Cottle, Bristol, Mr. T. Longman, and Messrs. Lee and Hurst, Paternoster Row, London, the whole LYRICAL BALLADS, AV iTiK A FEir OTHER FOBMS. B HIST O I . ; PH'.NrEQ If.' ;:iri:S AS'' ' > ' ' ton 1 .>-. LONGMAN . ?.vi ►'"-•'■■;•■ " >-'•■'.. EDITION ES PRINCIPES, ETC. 17 preceded by five unsigned leaves carrying the pre- liminary matter. Sig. A has no register. The book was issued without any half-title. Issued (early in September, 1798) in drab paper boards, probably with a white paper back-label. The leaves measure 6fx4^ inches. The published price was Five Shillings, The edition consisted of Five Hundred Copies. Cottle has recorded that he had recommended from the first that the work should consist of two volumes — to which it was eventually extended. The paper used for printing the First Edition of the Lyrical ^(7//(r?^/j- is watermarked " Z/i^j'^, 1795." This is the same paper as that employed largely by Cottle when producing the Second Edition, 1797, of the Poems of Coleridge. A facsimile, slightly reduced, of the original Bristol title-page of the Lyrical Ballads of 1798, is given herewith. Contents PAGE The Rime of the Ancvent Marinere. [// is an ancyent Marinerc^ i When reprinted in Lyrical Ballads, 1800, the title of the Ball.n! was changed to The Ancient Mariner. A Poet' s Reverie. In the editions of 1802 and 1805 the latter portion of this title was dropped, though curiously enough it was permitted to retain its position upon the half-title. The deletion of this sub-title was due to a criticism offered by Charles Lamb. The Foster-Mother's Tale. [I never saw the man whom you describe^ 53 T/te Foster- Mother'' s Tale was originally a Scene of Osorio, the earlier form of the Tragedy ultimately published under the title Remorse. Coleridge added the Scene as an Appendix to the Second Edition q{ Remorse, 1813, pp. 75 — 78. Lines Left Upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree \vhich Stands near the Lake of Esth\vaite. \Nay, Traveller! rest. Litis lonely yezv-tree stands^ 59 c iS BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. I'AGF, Lewti. \At midnight by the stream I rovcd\ 63 Previously printed in Tlic Morning Post, April \yh, 179S. The Female Vagrant. [/>i' Denve)it's side my Father's cottage stood\ 69 Tlie Female Vagrant is a portion only of Gnilt and Sorrozv, originally written in 1794, but first published complete in Poems cliiefly of Early and Late Years, 1842, pp. 5 — 42. Goody Blake, and Harry Gill. [C// .' 7vhafs the matter? whafs the matter 1\ 85 Llnes ^^'R^^TEN at a S.\l\ll Distance from my House, AND sent by my LiTTLE BoY TO THE PERSON TO WHOM THEY ARE ADDRESSED. [// IS the first mild day of ^hxrch^ 95 In the edition of 1820, Vol. iv, p. 105, tliis poem was rechristened To my Sister. IVntten at a small Distance from my House, and sent by my little Boy. From 1845 onwards the title was curtailed, and reads 'J'o my Sister only. Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman. \Iii the siveet shire of Cardigafi] 9S " No poem of Wordsworth's underwent so many changes as Simon Lee. The first seven stanzas, which nearly reached their final form in 1832, are found in different texts and different sequence in 1798, 1802, 1820, 1827,1832. Words and lines were altered, stanzas shifted in position, and new stanzas constructed by con- necting the halves of certain stanzas with the halves of others." — \^Doiciden'\. Anecdote for Fathers, Shewing how the Art of Lying May be Taught. [/ have a boy of five years old\ 105 When reprinted in 1800 the word Art in the title was replaced by the word Practice. In 1845 the title was curtailed and reail Anecdote for Fathers only, and a motto was added. We ARE Seven. \A simple cliild, dear brotJier Ji)ii\ . > . no After this poem, probably the most widely known of all Wordsworth's minor pieces, had been completed, Coleridge furnished for it ED 177 ONES PRINCIPES, EEC. 19 the following prefatory stanza, intended to supply the tnotif of the verses : A simple child, dear hrolher Jitii, That lightly dratvs its breath, And feels its life in every livtl\ What should it know of death ? " Dear brother ]im " was James Tohin, brother of John Toliin, author of The Faro Table, School for Authors, and other plays. Although Wordsworth regarded the words "dear brother [im " as ludicrous, he retained the stanza intact up to and including the edition of 1 805. But in 181 5 he got rid of the words by ])rinting the line thus : A simple child That livhtly dratvs its breath, erV. I'Al.K Lines written in Early Spring. \I hea?-d a tlioiisand blended iioles\ 115 The Thorn, \_77iere ts a thorn ; it looks so old\ .... 117 The Last of the Flock. [/;/ distant countries I hare l>^t-'"'\ 133 The Dungeon. [And this place our forefathers niade for vian .'] 139 The Mad Mother. \Her eyes are 7vild, her head is hare~\ , 141 In 1815 the title 77^1? Alad Afothtr was dropped, and in that and all later editions the poem was printed without a title. The Idiot Boy. ['Tis eight o'clock, — a clear March 7iight^ 147 Lines written near Richmond, upon the Thames, at Evening. \_How rich the wave, in front, imprest^ . . 180 In the Lyrical Ballads of 1800 (Vol, i, pp. loi^ — 104) these lines were divided, at the instigation of Coleridge, into two portions, each of whicii appeared as a separate and distinct poem ; i.e. : 1. Lines written when sailing in a Boat at Evening. 2. Lines written near Kichmcnd, upon the Thames. C 2 20 BIBLTOGRAPHV OF WORDS WORT//. In tlie edition of 1802 the title of the second portion was amended, and reads : I\eincmbra»ie of Collins, Written upon tlie Thames, near /•iieluiioiid. PAGE ExrnsTUi.ATiox and Rkplv. \Wh}\ WiHiaiii, on that o/d grey stone\ 183 Thk Tatilks Turned ; Ax Eveninc; Scene, on the same Subject. \^Up ! up ! my friend, and clear your looks\ . 186 Old Man Travelling; ANnL\L Tranquillity and Decay, A Sketch. \Tlie little Jiedge-row hirds\ . . . 1S9 When reprinted in the first volume of the edition of 1800 tliis poem was rechristened Animal Tranquillity and Decay. The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman. ^Before I see another da\'\ 191 The Convict. \^The i^lory of evening was spread thnnigh the west\ 197 Previously printed in The Mornim^ Post, December 14///, 1797. After reappearing in the present volume this poem was dropped hy Wordsworth, and was never revived by him in any edition of his works.* When pre])aring The Convict ^qx its place in [.yrical liallads\^ox<\ t^t^ia S«*^ -^ •^ i. And arc th^se two all, all the crew. That woman and her IVH>We?£ |t^%» \s a blank. The volume was issued without any half-title. Vol. II. Collation : — Foolscap octavo, pp. iv4-227, consisting of: Title-page, as above (with blank reverse) pp. i — ii ; Table of Contents pp. iii — iv ; Text of Hart-Leap Well, &c., pp. I — 15 ; p. 16 is blank ; Fly-title to The Brothers, A Pastoral Poem (with blank reverse) pp. 17 — 18; Text of The Brothers, &c., pp. 19 — 99; p. 100 is blank ; Fly-title to Rnth (with blank reverse) pp. loi — 102 ; Text o^ Rnth, &c., pp. 103— 148; Fly-title to The Old Cumberland Beggar {with. blank reverse) pp. 149 — 150; Text of The Old Cnmberlajid Beggar, &c., pp. 151 — 174; Fly-title to Poems on the Naming of Places (with blank reverse) pp. 175 — 176; Prefatory Note styled Advertisement (with blank reverse) pp. 177 — 178 ; Text of the Poems pp. 179 — 196 ; Fly-title to Michael, A Pastoral jS Bir.LIOGRAPHY OF WORDS WORTH. Poem (with blank reverse) pp. 197 — 198 ; Text of Micliael pp. 199 — 225 ; Notes to the Poem of The Bro tilers p. 226 ; and Notes to the Poem of ]\IicJiael p. 227. Upon the reverse of p. 227 is a List of Errata, with the imprint, '' Printed by Biggs and Co., Bristol" at foot. There are no head-h'nes, the pages being numbered centrally. The signatures are A (2 leaves), A to O (14 sheets, each 8 leaves), and P (2 leaves). The volume was issued without aiiy half- title. Issued (in January, 1801) in drab paper boards, with white paper back-labels, lettered " Lyrical j Ballads / By / \V. IVordsiuorth / Vol. i [Vol. ii]." The leaves measure 6f x 4^ inches. The paper employed for these volumes also has the water- mark '■^ Lloyd 1795." The motto which figures upon the title-pages of these volumes, Quain nihil ad geniutn, Papiinane, tinim I has never been traced to its source. Wordsworth no doubt took it from Anderson's British Poets, iii, 238. Mr. E. H. Coleridge suggests that the authors meant to ' get at ' Sir James Mackintosh — Papinianiis is a great jurist. Page ix of the Preface is misnumbered xi, and this error is repeated in the list of Errata, both original and revised, which closes the second volume. It will be observed that the first volume only of this edition carries the words Second Edition upon its title-page. The reason is that the second volume consisted entirely of new matter, and was therefore regarded as a First Edition. This distinction survived until the edition of 1S05, in which both volumes were noted as being Fourth Edition. A facsimile, slightly reduced, of the title- page of the second volume of the Lyrical Ballads of 1800 is given herewith. EDITIONES P RING I PES, ETC. 39: Contents Vol. I. Save that The Convict was omitted, the Poems incUided in this volume of the Lyrical Ballads are, with one exception, identical with those contained in the First Edition of 179S in its amended form, with 7 he Nightitigale taking the place of l.eivti. They are, however, arranged in a different order. PAGE Expostulation and Reply. '^Why, William, on that old grey stone^ i Previously printed in Lyrical Ballads, 179S, pp. 183 — 1S5. The Tables Turned : An Evening Scene, On the Same Subject. \Up I up I my friend., and clear your looks\ 4 Previously printed in Z_)'r/az/ i>a//rt(/j-, 179S, pp. 1S6 — 188. Animal Tranquillity and Decay. A Sketch. \The little hedge-nnv birds] 7 Previously printed (under the tentative title Old Man travelling ; Animal Tranqnillily and Decay, a Sketch) in Lyrical Ballads, 1798, pp. 189 — 190. The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman. [^Before I see another day] y Previously printed in Lyrical Ballads, 179S, pp. 191 — 196. The Last of the Flock. [/// distant countries I have been] 15 Previously printed in Lyrical Ballads, 1798, pp. 133 — 138. Lines Left upon a Seat in a Ye\v-Tree, which Stands NEAR the Lake of Esthwaite. \^Nay, Traveller! rest. This lonely yezv-tree stands] 21 Previously printed in Lyrical Ballads, 1798, pp. 59 — 62. The Foster-Mother's Tale. [But that entrance. Mother!] 25 Previously printed in Lyrical Ballads, 179S, i)p. 53 — 58. 40 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. I'AGE Goody Blake and Harry Gill. \0h ! ivhafs the tnatter ? tvhafs the matter ? 29 Previously printed in Lyrica/ Ballads, 179S, pp. 85 — 93. The Thorn. [^There is a thorn ; it looks so old] 38 VreviowsXy "pnnicA'm Lyrical Ballads, 179S, pp. 117 — 132. We ARE Seven. \A simple child, dear brother Jini\ ... 54 Previously printed in Z_)V7V(z/ />i://fl^/5, 179S, pp. no — 114. Anecdote for Fathers, Shewing how the Practice of Lying May be Taught. [/ have a boy of five years old] 59 Previously printed (the title reading the Art of laying in jilace oi\\\Q Practice <:>i\jy\x\^\n Lyrical Ballads, 1798, pp. 105 — 109. Lines Written at a Small Distance from My House, and Sent by My Little Boy to the Person to WHOM They are Addressed. [// is the first mild day of March] 64 Previously printed in Lyrical Ballads, 179S, pp. 95 — 97. The Female Vagrant. [By Denveut's side my Father's cottage stood] 67 Previously printed in Lyrical Ballads, 1798, pp. 69 — 84. The four following stanzas of Pke Female Vagrant were included in the version of the poem which stood in the Lyrical Ballads of 1798, and were preserved in the present version of 1800. But in the edition of 1802 they disappeared. Two of these, the second and third, were restored in 1820, but the remaining two were never revived by Wordsworth. The four served as stanzas i, iii, iv, and xiv of the original text : By Derive/It's side my Father'' s cottage stood, ( The Woman tlius tier artless story told) One field, a flock, and what tlie tieighfuniring flood Supplied, to hitn were more than mines of gold. lAght 'cvas my sleep ; my days in transport roll'd : With thoughtless joy I stretch' d along the shore My father's nets, or watched, when from the fold High o'er the cliff's I led my fleecy store, A dizzy depth bcloxv! his boat and twinkling oar. EDTTWNES PRINCIPES, ETC. 41 Can I forget what charms did once adorn My garden, stored with pease, and mint, and thyme. And rose and lilly for the sabbath morn ? The sabbath bells, and their delightful chime ; The gambols and wild freaks at shearing time ; My hens rich nest through long grass scarce espied ; 'Hie cowslip-gathering at Mays dewy prime : The swans, that, when I sought the water-side. From far to meet me came, spreading their snowy pride. The staff I yet remember which upbore The bending body of my active sire ; His seat beneath tJie honeyed sycamore When the bees hummed, and cJiair by winter fire ; When market-morning came, the neat attire With which, though bent on haste, myself I dccISd ; My 'watchful dog, whose starts of furious ire, IVhen stranger passed, so often I have checked ; The red-breast known for years, which at my casement pec/;' d. Oh ! dreadful price of being to resign All that is dear in being! better far In IVant^s tnost lonely cave till death to pine, Unseen, unlieard, unwatched by any star ; Or in the streets and walks where proud men are. Better our dying bodies to obtrude. Than dog-like, wading at the heels of zvar, Protract a curst existence, with the brood That lap {their very nourishment !) their brother's blood. The text of many of the remaining stanzas exhibits drastic changes. PAGE The Dungeon. {And f his place our forefathers made for man /] 83 Previously printed in Lyrical Ballads, 1798, pp. 139 — 140. Simon Lee, The Old Huntsman. [/// the sweet shire of Cardigan^ 85 Previously printed in Lyrical Ballads, 1798, pp. 98 — 104. Lines Written in Early Spring. \f heard a thousand blended notes"\ 9 - Previously printed in Lyrital Ballads, 1798, pp. 115 — 116. 42 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. PAGE The Nightingale. \^No cloiul, no relique of t/ie sunken i^ay] 94 Previously printed (as an addition, in place of the cancelled Lew//) in Lyrical Ballads, 1798, pp. 63 — 69. Lines Written when Sailing in a Boat at Evening. \Hoiv rich the zvave, in front, impres(\ loi Previously printed (as the first portion of Lines ii'vitten 7icar Richmond, npon the Thames, at Evening) in Lyrical Ballads, 1798, pp. 180— 181. Lines Written near Richmond, upon the Thames. \^Glide gently, thus for ever glide\ 103 Previously printed (as the second portion of Lines ivritlen near Richmond, tcpon the Thames, at Evening) in Lyrical Ballads, 1798, pp. 181 — 182. The Idiot Bov. ['7/V eight o'clock, — a clear March flight^ 107 Previously printed in Lyrical Ballads, 1798, pp. 149 — 179. I>0VE. [All Thoughts, all Passions, all Delights'] .... 138 This Poem, by Coleridge, was not included in the Lyrical Ballads of 1798. It had previously appeared (with the addition of eight other stanzas which were dropped when the poem was intro- duced into Lyrical Ballads, and under the tentative title Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladic) in The Morning Post, December 2 u/, 1 799. The INLvi) Mother. [Her eyes arc 7viltl, her head is hare] 145 Previously printed in Lyrical Ballads, 1798, pp. 141 — 146. The Ancient Mariner. A Poet's Reveuie. [// is an ancient Alariner] 155 Previously printed (under the tentative title The Rime of the Ancycnt iMannere) in Lyrical Ballads, 1798, pji. 5 — 51. In this edition the original Argument prefixed to The Ancient Mariner was expanded, and set forth clearly the motif of the Ballad. In the succeeding editions of Lyrical Ballads dated 1802 and 1805 this Argument was removed. It was also omitted in 1817 when the Ballad was gathered into Sibylline Leaves. On the other hand, the Motto taken from Burnet, EDIT/ONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 43 together with the valuable marginal gloss, was first introduced in the version that appeared in Sibylline Leaves. I'ACE Lines Written a Few Miles af.ove Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Bank.s of the Wye during a Tour. \^Five years have passed ; five sti/iiiners, with the ki!gth'\ 201 Previously printed in Lyrical Ballads, 179S, pp. 201 — 210. As has already been briefly noted, the whole of the foregoing poems included in this volume were, with one exception, reprinted from the amended first edition of 1798. They were, however, arranged in a different order, and several substantial changes were introduced into the text. It will doubtless have been observed that The Convict was omitted altogether, that the title of The Old Ma/i Travelling was changed to Anitnal Tratiquillity and Decay., and that the Lines 7vritten near Richmond, upon the Thames, at Evening were divided into two portions, forming two separate poems, entitled respectively Lines tvritten 7uhen sailing in a Boat at Evening, and Lines written near Richmond, upon the Thames. The single exception was Coleridge's poem Love, which he now added to the four he had contributed to the earlier volume. This poem had already appeared, with eight additional stanzas which were deleted from the version given in Lyrical Ballads, and under the title Litroduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie, in The Morning Post, D:cember 21st, 1799. In The Morning Post Coleridge prefaced his verses by a signed letter addressed to the Editor, in which he forestalled anticipated criticism upon his " tale of old-fashioned love." But one of the most distinctive and memorable features connected with this first volume of the edition of iSoo is the famous Preface, which replaced the modest Advertisement oi 179S, and in wliich Wordsworth gave " a systematic defence of the theory upon which the poems were written." This Preface, Wordsworth asserted in 1S3S, he had been ''prevailed upon by Coleridjre to write." 44 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. Whilst the volumes were passing through the press the pro- crastination of Coleridge rendered the removal of a statement made in the third paragraph of the Preface necessary. In order to effect the change Sig. A 3 (pp. v — vi) was cancelled, and a fresh leaf was printed to replace it. Coleridge had undertaken to contribute Christabel to this new and enlarged edition of the Ballads., and in the course of his Preface the poem was referred to by Wordsworth (p. vi) in the following paragraph : For the sake of variety and from a cotiscioitsness of my own iveakness I have again requested the assistance of a Friend who contributed largely to the first volume,''' and 7vho has noia furnished me with the Poem of Christabel., without ivhich I should not yet have ventured to present a second volume to the public. * The Poems supplied by my Friend, are the Ant lent Mariner, the Foster-Mother'' s Talc, the Nightingale, the Dungeon, and the Poem entitled Love. But no Christabel was forthcoming, and Wordsworth was compelled to delete the above passage with its accompanying foot-note, and replace it with the following : For the sake of vaiiety and from a consciousness of my ow)i 'veahiess I vlhis induced to request the assistance of a Friend, who furnished me with the Poems of the Ancient Mariner, the Foster- Mother^ s Tale, the Nightingale, the Dungeon, and the Poem entitled Love. Coleridge never did complete Christabel, and not until 18 16 did any portion of the poem realise itself in print. In that year the first two Parts were published by John Murray, in an octavo pamphlet, together with Kubla Khan and The Pains of Sleep. The only example known to me of the first volume of Lyrical Ballads, 1800, containing the original cancelled leaf, is the property of Mr. Robert Alfred Potts. EDITIONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 45 Vol. II. The whole of the poems inchuled in this volume were entirely new, and in its pages made their first appearance. PAGE Hart-Leap Well. \The Knight had ridden doivn from Wensley vioor^^ i Lines. \Thcre was a Boy., ye kneiu him well., ye Cliffs] . . 14 The Brothers. [These Tourists., Heaven preserve us! needs must live] 19 Ellen Irwin, or the Braes of Kirtle. \Fair Ellen Invin, tvhen she sate] 46 Lines. [Strange fits of passion I have kno7vn] 50 Song. [She divelt among th' untrodden ^vays] 53 Lines. [A slumber did my spirit seal] 53 The Waterfall and the Eglantine. [Begone, thou fond presumptuous Elf] 54 The Oak and the Broom, A Pastoral. [His simple truths did Andreiv glean] 58 Lucy Gray. [Oft had I heard of Lucy Gray] 64 The Idle Shepherd-Boys, or Dungeon-Gill Force. A Pastoral. [The valley rings 7Cfith mirth and joy] 69 Lines, [' Tis said, that some have died for love] 76 Poor Susan. [At the comer of Wood-Street, when day-light appears] 80 When reprinting this poem in 1802 Wordsworth deleted the following stanza, with which the piece was concluded in 1800 : Poor Outcast I return — to 7-eceive tliee once more The house of thy Father wilt open its door. And thou once again, in thy plain russet gown. May st hear the thrush sing from a tree of its own. In I Si 5 the title was expanded to The Reverie of Poor Snsan. Inscription for the Spot where the Hermitage stood on St. Herbert's Island, Derwent-Water. [If thou in the dear love of some one friend] 82 46 BITyUOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. I'AGE Inscription for the House (an Outhouse) on the Island at Grasmere. \Riide is this Edifice, and Thou hast see7i\ 84 To A Sexton. \_Let thy wheel-bamnv alone\ 86 Andrew Jones. \^I Jiate that Andrew Jo7i(s : hell hr€ed\ . 89 The Two Thieves, or the Last Stage of Avarice. \^0h now that the genius of Bewick were mine'\ .... 92 Lines. \^.4 whirl-blast from beJiind the hill^ 96 Song for the Wandering Jew. \Thouoli the torrents from their fountains^ 98 Ruth. \^lVhen Ruth zvas /eft half desolate] 103 Lines written with a Slate-Pencil upon a Stone, &c. [^Stranger ! this hillock of mishapen stones] 117 Lines written on a Tadlet in a School. \If Nature, for a favorite Child] 120 The Two April Mornings. [ ]Ve zvalk'd along, while bright and red] 123 The Fountain, a Conversation. [/'Fc talk'd 7vith of en heart, and tongue] 127 Nutting. \^It seems a da\^ 132 Lines. \Three years she grew in sun and showet-] .... 136 The Pet-Lamb, A Pastoral. \The deio 7vas falling fast, the stars l>egan to blinli] .. 139 Written in Germany, on one of the Coldest Days of the Century. \A fig for your languages, German and Norse] 144 The Childless Father. \^Up ! Timothy, up icith your Staff and atvay !] 147 The Old Cumberland Beggar, A Description. \^I sa'w an aged Beggar in my walk] 151 Rural Architecture. \^Theres George Fisher, Charles Fleming, and Reginald Shore] 163 A Poet's Epitaph. [^/V thou a Statesman, in the van] . 165 EDITIONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 47 PAGE A Character, In the Antithetical Manner. [/ marvel how Nature could ever find space\ 169 This poem was omitted by Wordsworth when reprinting the Lyrical Ballads in 1802. A Fragment. \^Between two sister moorland rills\ ... 171 Poems on the Naming of Places : I. \It tvas an April Morning : fresh and cleai'^ . . . 179 II. To Joanna. [Amid the smoke of cities did yon pass'] 182 III. [There is an Eminence, — of these our hills] ... 188 IV. \_A narrow girdle of rough stones atid crags] ... 190 V. To M. H. [Our walk 7C'as far among the ancient trees] 195 Michael, A Pastoral Poem. [If from the public way you turn your steps] 199 Of Vol. II of Lyrical Ballads, iSoo (being the First Edition of this volume), there are two separate and distinct issues. By an oversight upon the part of the printer, 15 lines were omitted on p. 210 from the ^^otvcv Michael. In order that these missing lines might be introduced into the text, two leaves [Sigs. O I and O 2 = pp. 209 — 212] were cancelled, and three fresh leaves were printed to replace them. Two of these are numbered 209 — 210 and 21 r — 212 respectively; the third, which was imposed between the other two, is numbered *209 — *2io. In order that the Issue to which any particular copy of the book belongs may be readily identified, I note the following details : P. 209. — First Issue. The last word of the foot-note " shearing " is set in the middle of the page. Second Issue. This word is set at the extreme left-hand side of the page. 48 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. V. 2IO. — First Issue. This page carries lo lines only. Second Issue. ,, ,, „ 19 „ P. 211. — First Issue. This page carries 19 lines, and ends with the line Such was his first resolve ; he thou^s^ht again Second Issue. This page carries 18 lines, and ends with the line And his heart fair d him. " Isabel" said he, P. 2 13. — First Issue. This page carries 19 lines, and commences with the line And his heart faird him. " Isabel,''^ said he, Second Issue. This page carries 1 8 lines, and commences with the line TiC'o evenings after he had heard the neics, In both Issues this page ends with the line Our luke sliall leave us, Isabel ; the land Pp. *209 — *2io. This inserted leaf carries 6 lines only upon its recto, and 3 lines only upon its verso. In addition to the introduction of 15 fresh lines, the line which in the First Issue commences p. 211 While this good household tJius were living on was expanded in the Second Issue (p. "^"210) into the following two : While in the fashion which I have described This simple household thus were living on The net result attained was that the Second Issue contained 16 more lines than the First Issue, whilst the text of one additional line differs in the two versions. " I am now come to the circumstance which was the determining EDITIONES PRINCIFES, ETC. 49 cause of my writing to you. The second volume of Lyrical Ballads, 1800, is throughout miserably printed, and after the line deceiving from his father hire of praise by a shameful negligence of the printer there is an omission of fifteen lines absolutely necessary to the connection of the poem. If in the copy sent to you this omission has not been supplied, you may be furnished with half a sheet which has been reprinted, if you have any acquaintance who will call at Longman's for it, and send it down to you. In the meanwhile my sister will transcribe for you the omitted passage. I shall be vexed if your copy is an imperfect one, as it must have been impossible for you to give the poem a fair trial." — {^Wordsworth's letter to Thomas Poole, April gth, 1801.] The following are the 15 omitted lines in question : Though iiotighf zvas left undone wliich staff or voice, Or looks, or threatening gestures, could perform. Btit soon as Luke, full ten. years old, could stand Against the mountain blasts : and to the heights. Not fearing toil, nor length of iveary ways. He tvith his Father daily went, and they Were as companions, why should I relate That objects ivhich the Shepherd lov'd before Were dearer now ? that from the Boy there came Feelings and emanations — things which 7vere Light to the sun and music to the 'wind ; And that the old ALuis heart seenid born again ? Thus in his Father's sit^ht the Boy grew up : And 710W, when he had reached his eighteenth year, LLe zms his comfort and his daily hope. Whilst these cancel-leaves were in hand Wordsworth embraced the opportunity afforded by their use to enlarge very greatly his list of Errata. The original list directed attention to three errors only. These were extended to twenty-seven, and in order to E so BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. accommodate Ihem the final leaf, Sig. P2, was also cancelled. When reprinting this leaf the printers imposed the word Finis at the foot of p. 227, in place of the word End., with which this page had previously concluded. As a general rule, when a book has been manipulated in such a manner, the first issue is by far the more difficult to procure. But in the present instance the reverse is the case, the second issue being very much the scarcer of the two. The reason for this circumstance is not far to seek. The volumes were issued in Jani/ary^wZoi, in an edition which is believed to have consisted of 500 copies. It was not until April that Wordsworth caused the cancels to be prepared. Hence the number of copies issued in an amended state is not likely to have been large. There is a copy of Lyrical Ballads, 1800, in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is 11642. aa. 50. The second volume is an example of the original issue. The Museum also possesses a second example of Vol. II. This was originally Southey's, and is bound up with his copy of the first volume with the Bristol title-page. The Press-mark is C. 58. c. 12 (2.) (6) [Lyrical Ballads : 1802] Lyrical Ballads, / with / Pastoral / and other / Poems, j In two volumes / By W. Wordsworth. / Qiiam nihil ad geninui, Papinianc, tiiuui ! j Vol. L / Third Edition. [/^W. //. Second Editioii\ j London : / Printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, Paternoster- Row, / By Biggs and Cottle, Crane-Court, Fleet-Street. / 1802. EDITIONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 51 Collation : — Foolscap octavo : Vol. I. pp. vi + lxiv + 200+iv. Vol. II. pp. iv + 250. Issued in drab paper boards, with white paper back-labels. The paper is watermarked with the date 1800. To the 1802 edition of Lyrical Ballads Coleridge contributed four poems only, one of the original series, The Dungeon, having been withdrawn. Wordsworth's A Character was also omitted. In the main the 1802 edition of Lyrical Ballads is a repro- duction of that of 1800, but it is by no means a close reprint of it. The famous Preface was considerably expanded, and many changes were introduced into the text of the Poems. Moreover, three of these were removed from their places in the first volume and given new positions in the second volume. It was in this edition, also, that Coleridge cancelled the Argument to The Ancient Mariner. In regard to the Preface. On January 27///, 1845, Wordsworth wrote to Moxon : ''''The Prefaces, etc., contain nianv important observations upon Poetry ; but they were written solely to gratify Coleridge ; and for my 0W71 part, being quite against anything of the kind, and having alivays been of opiiiioti that poetry should stand upon its own merits, L luould not even attach to the Poems any explanation of the grounds of their arrangement.'" There is a copy of Lyrical Ballads, 1802, in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is 11642. aaa. 39. 52 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ll'ORDSlVORTH. (7) [Lyrical Ballads: 1805] Lyrical Ballads, / with / Pastoral / and other / Poems. / \n two volumes. / By W. Wordsworth. / Quani nihil ad genium, Papinianc, tuuin ! / Vol. L / Fourth Edition. \Vol. II. Fourth Edition^ / London : / Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, / By R. Taylor and Co., 38, Shoe- Lane. / 1805. Collation : — Foolscap octavo : Vol. I. pp. iv + lxvi-l-200 + iv. Vol. II. pp. iv + 248. Is.sucd in drab paper boards, with white paper back-labels. The paper is watermarked with the date 1S04. In this edition both volumes carried the words Fourth Edition upon their title-pages. There is accordingly no issue of the second volume of Lyrical Ballads with its title-page noted Third Edition. To the 1805 edition of Ly vital Ballads Coleridge again contributed four poems only, The Dungeon still remaining with- drawn. This is the last edition of Lyrical Ballads in which any of Coleridge's work was represented. From this date forward Coleridge ceases to have any direct connection with Wordsworth bibliography. Practically the edition of Lyrical Ballads of 1S05 is a reproduction of that of 1802. There are, however, a substantial number of fresh variants to be found in the text of some of the poems it contains. In this edition the fullowing stanza of The Fenuile Vagrant. EDTTIONES PR INCITES, ETC. 53 which stood as No. xviii in the original version, appeared for the last time. When revising the poem for the reconstructed Poems of 1S15 Wordsworth removed this stanza, and never again revived it : Yet does that burst of woe coni^ea/ i/ty frame, JV/ien the dark st?'eets appeared to heave and gape, White like a sea the storming army came, And Fiix from Hell reared his gigantic shape, And Murder, by the ghastly gleam, and Rape Seized their joint prey, the mother and the child ' But from these crazing thoughts my brain, escape ! — For weeks the balmy air breathed soft and mild. And on the gliding vessel Heaven and Ocean smiled. One of the most attractive features of the Lyrical Ballads, and one which will render the four original editions treasurable possessions for all time, is the opportunity they afford for the study of the development of the text of The Ancient Mariner. This wonderful Ballad as we now have it in the current editions of the Poems of Coleridge differs widely in phrase and form from the version given to the world in 1798; in some instances whole stanzas of the earliest version were bodily removed. Ten of these have already been noted {ante, p. 32], but a few further examples, showing both change and deletion, may well be given here. In all four editions of the Lyrical Ballads the third and fourth stanzas of Part I. ran almost uniformly as follows : But still he holds the wedding-guest — There was a Ship, quoth he — '"''Nay, if thou'' sf got a laughsome tale, Ma?-inere / come icith me.'" He holds him with his skinny hand. Quoth he, there was a Ship '' Now get thee hence, thou grey-beard Loon I Or my Staff shall make thee skip." 54 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. In 1817, when revising the Ballad for Sibylline Leaves, Coleridge discarded the third stanza altogether, and rewrote the fourth as follows : He holds him 7t.nth his skiji/iy hand, " There 7vas a ship,''' quoth he. " Hold off I unhand nie, grey -heard loo7i I " Eftsoons his hand droJ>f he. Again, in 179S, Part I., stanza 12 read thus : Listen, Stranger ! Storm and JVind, A Wind and Tempest strong ! For days and iveeks it play'' d us freaks — - Like Chaff we drove along. In iSoo the stanza was revised as follows, and the revision held good in the editions of 1S02 and 1805 : But now the Northwind came more fierce. There came a Tempest strong I And SoutJiward still for days and weeks Like Chaff 7ve drove along. In 181 7 the stanza was flung aside, and replaced with the following two : And now the Storm. blast came, and he Was tyra/inous and strong : He struck with his dertaking ivings. And chased us south along. With sloping masts and dipping prow. As who pursued with yell and blozv Still treads the shadow of his foe And forward bends his head. The ship drove fast, loud roar'd the blast. And southward aye we fled. EDITIONES P RING I PES, ETC. 55 Again, in 1798 the third part of The Ancient Mariner opened with tlie following six-line stanza: / sinv a soinef/iin^i:; in tlie Sky No /'ixxer ///an )ny fist ; At first it seeni'd a little speck And then it seeni'd a mist : It nicw'd and inov'd, and took at last A certain shape, I wist. In iSoo this stanza gave place to the two following, which held their own in the editions of 1802 and 1805 : So past a (Cearv time ; each throat Was parch\i, and y;laz'd eacJi eye. When, looking westUHxrd, I beheld A something in the sky. At first it seenid a little speck And then it seemed a mist : It niovd and moz>\l, and took at last A certain shape, 1 7vist. In 181 7 the six-line stanza was reverted to, and the text of the two four-line stanzas was remoulded accordingly : There passed a tveary time. Each throat Was parched, and glazed each eye. A weary time ! a 7veary time ! IIo7v glazed each weaty eye ! When looking tvestward, I beheld A something in the sky. The following imes formed stanza 10 of Tart III. in 1798, and 56 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. retained their position as stanza ii in the editions of 1800, 1802, and 1805. In Sibylline Leaves they disappeared entirely : His bones 7vere black 7vil/t many a crack, All black and bare, I ween ; Jet-black and bare, save where witJi rust Of nioiildv damps and charnel crust They re patch' d with purple and gree}i. Finally, as an example of the manner in which a stanza, although retained, was so worked upon as to deprive it of the greater portion of its original form, I give the ninth stanza of Part III. Tracing this stanza from 1798 to 181 7, we find the three following versions : 1798 Are those her naked ribs, which flcck'd The sun that did behind them peer 1 And are those tivo all, all the crew. That woman and her Jleshless I^heere 1 1800 to 1805 Are those her Ribs, thro' 7vhich the Sun Did peer, as thro'' a grate ? And air those two all, all her cre^v, That Woman, and her Mate t 1S17 Are those her ribs through "which the Sun Did peer, as through a g?-ate 1 And is that Woman all her crew ? Is that a Dea th 7 and are there two ? Is Death that ivouu-dCs matel Yet a fourth reading of this stanza is to be found in Mr. Butler's corrected copy of Lyrical Ballads to which I have already P EM.S, T]VO VOLUMES, Vv'ILLIAM WORDSWORTH, riir L'-V;. 'L BAi.LAm. ;■, ■ f;'.; Ml,: VOL. I. L o iv n o N : PKINTED FOR LONCMAX, KU'IST, KElrS, AKD OP.MI^ PATIlilN'OSTKn-JUiW. EDITIONES rniNCIPES, ETC. 59 {ante, p. 24) made reference. On p. iS of that copy Coleridge revised the stanza thus : Are those her ribsy ivhich fleck' d ilie Sitii, Like the bars of a dungeon grate? And are these two all, all the crciv. That woman and her Mate ? To pursue the subject further is impossible upon the present occasion, but the above instances will suffice to justify my attitude in placing so high a bibliographical value upon all four editions of the Lyrical Ballads. The student of text, whose curiosity prompts him to seek more elaborate details of the minor changes introduced from time to time into the lines of The Ancient Mariner, should consult the ' Oxford ' Coleridge, edited by Mr. E. H. Coleridge. I cannot refer him to a more complete or satisfactory fund of information. The original text of The Ancient Mariner was given in the undated 1870 reissue of the 1863 edition of The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edited by Derwent and Sara Coleridge. There is a copy oi Lyrical Ballads, 1805, in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 58. bb. 23. (8) [Poems : 1807] Poems, / in / Two Volumes, / By / William Words- worth, / Author of / The Lyrical Ballads. / Postcrius graviore sono tibi Mitsa loqttetiir j Nostra : dabiint ciuu securos iniki teinpora fructus. J Vol. I. [F(9/. //.] / London : / Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, / Paternoster-Row. / 1S07. 6o BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. Vol. I. Collation : — Duodecimo, pp. viii+ 158 ; consisting of : Half- title (with imprint " Wood & Innes, / Printers, Poppins Court, Fleet Street" upon the centre of the reverse) pp. i — ii ; Title-page, as above (with blank reverse) pp. iii — iv ; Table of Contents pp. v — viii ; Text of the first series of Poems pp. i — 74 ; Fly- title to Poems composed during a Tour, Chiefly on Foot (with blank reverse) pp. 75 — ^6 ; Text of the Poems pp. jy — 97 ; p. 98 is blank ; Fly-title to Sonnets (with blank reverse) pp. 99 — 100; Prefa- tory Sonnet, p. loi ; p. 102 is blank ; Fly-title to Part I. Miscellaneous Sonnets (with blank reverse) pp. 103 — 104; Text of the Sonnets pp. 105 — 124; Fly-title to Sonnets dedicated to Liberty (with blank reverse) pp. 125 — 126; Te.\;t of the Sonnets pp. 127 — 152; Fly-title to Notes (with blank reverse) pp. 153 — 154 ; and Text of the Notes pp. 155 — -158 ; followed by an unnumbered leaf with a single Erratum upon its recto, the reverse blank. There are no head-lines, the pages being numbered cen- trally. The imprint is repeated at the foot of p. 158. The signatures are A (4 leaves), B to G (6 sheets, each 12 leaves), and H (8 leaves). Vol. LL. Collation : — Duodecimo, pp. viii-f 170 ; consisting of: Half- title (with imprint " Wood & Lnnes, j Printers, Poppin's Court, Fleet Street " upon the centre of the reverse) pp. i — ii ; Title-page, as above (with blank reverse) pp. iii — iv ; Table of Contents pp. v — vii ; p. viii is blank ; Fl}'-title to Poems Written during EDIT/ONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 6i a Tour in Scotland (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Text of the Poems pp. 3 — 35 ; p. 36 is blank ; Fly-title to AToods of My Oivn Mind (with blank reverse) pp. IJ — 38 ; Text of the Poems pp. 39 — 62 ; Fly-title to The Blind Highland Boy ; zvith Other Poems (with blank reverse) pp. 6^ — 64 ; Text of the Poems pp. 65 — 144; Fly-title to Ode (with Paiilb majora cananms, from Virgil, upon the centre of the reverse) pp. 145 — 146; Text of the Od pp. 147 — 158 ; Fly-title to Notes (with blank reverse) pp. 159 — 160 ; and Text of the Notes pp. 161 — 170. There are no head-lines, the pages being numbered centrally. The imprint is repeated at the foot of the last page. The signatures are A (4 leaves), B to H (7 sheets, each 12 leaves), and I (one leaf). Lssued in paper boards, with white paper back-labels, lettered " Wordsivort/is / Poems. / Vol. L [ Vol. Il.y A facsimile, slightly reduced, of the title-page of /^'tv/zj-, 1807, is' given herewith. Contents. Vol. I. PAGE To THE Daisy. [In youth from rock to rock I 7i>cnt^ ... i Louisa. [/ met Louisa in the shade\ 7 Fidelity. [A barking sound the Shepherd hears\ .... 9 Lines. \She ivas a Phantom oj delight'\ 14 The Redi;reast and the Butterfly. [Art thou the Bird ivhotn Man loves best'\ 16 The Sailor's Mother. [Gnc morning {ra7v it zvas and u'et)\ 19 62 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. PAGE To THE Small Celandine. YPansies, Lilies, Kini^cups, Daisies] 22 To THE Same Flower. \^P/easii>'es neialy found are sicect] 27 Character of the Happy \V^arrior. [ JV/io is the happy JFarrior? Who is he\ 31 The Horn of Egremont Castle. [ When the Brothers reached the gatetva)'\ 37 The Affliction of Margaret of . [ Where art thou, my beloved Son~\ 45 The Kitten and the Falling Leaves. [77m/ zvay look, my Infaftt, lo !] 5° The Seven Sisters. [^Seven Daughters had Lord Archibald'] 58 To H. C, Six Years Old. \0 Thou! whose fancies from afar are brought] 63 Lines. \_Among all lovely things my Love had been] ... 66 These lines were never reproduced by Wordsworth. They are, of course, included in the current editions of his collected works. Stanzas. \L traveWd among unknown Men] 68 Ode TO Duty. [^Ster/i Daughter of the Voice of God] . . 70 Beggars. [She had a tall Man's height, or more] . ... 77 To a Sky-Lark, [dp with me! up 7t'ith me into the clouds!] 80 Lines. [ With ho7v sad steps, O Moon, thou climb' st the shy] 83 Alice Fell. [The Post-boy drove ivith fierce career] . . . 84 Resolution and Independence. [There was a roaring in the 7vind all night] 89 Prefatory Sonnet. [Nuns fret not at their Convent's ?mrrozv room] loi Miscellaneous Sonnets : Sonnet L [Ho7V siveet it is, 7vhcn mother Fancy rocks] . . 105 Sonnet H. [ Where lies the Land to which yon Ship must go] 106 EDITIONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 6: I'AGE Sonnet III. Composed after a Journey Across THE Hamilton Hills. \_Ere we had iracli'd the ivisKd-fur phxce, night f el l\ 107 Sonnet IV. \These words were utter'' d in a pensive mood\ loS Sonnet V. To Sleep. \^0 gent/e Steep I do tlicy belong to thee] 109 Sonnet VI. To Sleep. [A flock of sheep that leisurely pass b}'\ no Sonnet VII. To Sleep. \Fond words have oft been spoken to thee, Sleep .'] in Sonnet VIII. [With Ships the sea 7vas sprinkled far and nigli\ 112 Sonnet IX. To the River Dltddon. \_0 mountain Stream ! the Shepherd and his Cot] 113 Sonnet X. From the Italian of Michael Angelo. [ Ves I hope may with my strong desire keep pace] . 114 Sonnet XI. From the Same. \No mortal object did these eyes behold] 115 Sonnet XII. To the Supreme Being. \The prayers I make 7vill then be sweet indeed] .... 116 Sonnet XIII. A\'ritten in very Early Youth [ Calm is all nat/av as a resti/ig 7t>heel] 117 Previously printed in The Morniiii^ Post, Febniary \yh, 1S02. Sonnet XIV. Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3RD, 1S03. [Earth has not anything to shew more fair] 118 SonnetXV. ["-Beloved Vale! " / said, " whenlshallcofi] 1 1 9 Sonnet X\T. [Methought I saiv the footsteps of a throne] 120 Sonnet XVII. [Lady I the songs of Spring were iti the grove] 121 Sonnet XVIII. [The ivorld is too much with us ; late and soo)i\ 122 64 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. PAGE Sonnet XIX. [// is a beauteous Evening, calm and free] 123 Sonnet XX. To the Memory of Raisley Calvert. \_Calvert ! it must not be unheard by then{\ ... 124 Sonnets Dedicated to Liberty : Sonnet I. Composed by the Sea-side, near Calais, August, 1802. [^Fair Star of Evening, Splendor of the J Vest] 127 Sonnet II. Calais, August, 1802. [Is it a Reed that's shaken i>v the 7vind] 128 Previously printed in The Montiitg Post, January 2()th, 1803. Sonnet III. To a Friend, Composed near Calais, on THE Road Leading to Ardres, August 7TH, 1802. [Jones! zvhetijrom Calais southtvard you and I] . 129 Sonnet IV. [I griev'd for Buonaparte, with a vain] . 130 Previously printed \x\The Morning Post, Sept. i6th, 1802, and Jan 2gfh, 1S03. SoNNr:T V. Calais, August 1 5TH, 1802. [Festiva/s have I seen that were not names] 131 Previously printed in T/ie Aforning J'ost, February 26th, 1803. Sonnet VI. On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic. [Once did She hold the gorgeous East in fee] 132 Sonnet VII. The King of Sweden. [The Voice of Song from distant lands shall call] 133 Sonnet VIII. To ToussaintL'ouverture. [Tous- saint, the most unhappy Man of Men !] .... 134 Previously printed in The Morning Post, February 2nd, 1S03. Sonnet IX. September ist, 1S02. [We had a felloiv- Passenger who ca)ne] 135 Previously printed in Tlie Morning Post, February 11th, 1803. In the edition of 1845 ''^feUoii:- Passenger'" of the opening line became '■^female Traveller." EDIT TONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 65 PAGE Sonnet X. Composed in the Valley, near Dover, ON the Day of Landing. \^Dear feiloiv Traveller f here zm are once inore\ 136 Sonnet XI. September, 1802. \Inland^ ivithin a holloiv Vale, I stood\ 137 Sonnet XII. Thought of a Briton on the Sub- jugation OF Switzerland. \Two Voices are there ; 07ie is of the SecL\ 138 Sonnet XIII. Written in London, Septempjcr, 1802. \0 Friend I I knoiv not which way I must look\ 139 Sonnet XIV. London, 1802. [Miltoji / thou sliouhf st be liz'ing at this hour^ 1 40 Sonnet XV. \Great Men have been atnom:^ us ; hands that penn\i\ 141 Sonnet XVI. [// is not to be thought of that the Flood\ 142 Previously printed in The Morning Post, April i6tli, 1S03. Sonnet XVII. [ When I have borne in incnwry what has tanied\ 143 Previously printed in The Morning Post, September I'Jth, 1S03. Sonnet XVIII. October, 1803. \One might believe that natural miseries^ 144 Sonnet XIX. \_There is a bondat^e ivhich is imrse to bear] 145 Sonnet XX. October, 1803. [These times touch money' d Worldlings with distnay] . 146 Sonnet XXI. [England ! the time is come ivJien thou shouldst weati\ 147 Sonnet XXII. [ When, looking on the present face of things] 148 Sonnet XXIII. To the Men of Kent. \Vanguard of Liberty, ye Me/i of Kent] 149 F 66 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. PACK Sonnet XXIV. [^Y.v thousand Veterans practised in War's ganie^^ 150 Sonnet XXV. Anticipation, Octoder, 1803. \Shont, for a mighty Victory is 7Von !'\ 151 Previously printed in The Poetical Kegislcr, \o\. iii, 1S03, p. 340. Also printed in The Anti-Gallican, 1804, p. 426. Sonnet XXVI. November, 1806. \^AnotJieryear ! — ■ another deadly hlotv !\ 152 Vol. IL Rob Roy's Grave. \A famous Man is Robin Hood] . . 3 The Solitary Reaper. [Behold her, single in the field] . 1 1 Stepping Westward. [" ]]7iat yon are stepping 7vest- wardV — " Yea''] 14 Glen-Almain, or the Narrow C^len. [/;/ this still place, reuiote froni men] 16 The Matron op'Jedborough and her Husband. [Age I twi)ie thy broivstvith fresh spring flowers 1] 18 To a Highland Girl. \S7veet Highland Girl, a very slunver] 23 Sonnet. Composed at Casile. [Degenerate Douglas I oh, the unworthy Lord !] . 28 Address to the Sons of Burns after Visiting their Father's Grave. [ Ye now are panting up life's hill] 29 Yarrow Unvisited. [From Stirling Castle we had seen] . 31 Moods of My Own Mind : 1. To A Butterfly. [Stay near me — do not take thy flight!] 39 2 . [ The Sun has long been set] 41 3. [O Nightingale ! thou surely art\ 42 4. [My heart leaps up when L behold] 44 EDIT/ONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 67 PAGE 5. Written in March, While Resting on the Bridge at the Foot of Brother's Water. \^The cock is C7-(nving\ 4^ 6. The small Celandine. \T/iere is a Flowci\ the Lesser Celandine^ 47 7. \^I wandered lonely as a Clou (T^ 4^ 8. S^Wlio fancied ivhat a pretty siglif\ ^i 9. The Sparrow's Nest. [Look, five blue eo;o-s are oleaniifig tliere /] 53 ro. (liPSiES. [ Vet are they here! — the same unbroken ^'^H' 55 11. To the Cuckoo. [6> blithe A\'7v-conicr ! L hare he^^^A 57 12. To a Butterfly. [I've 7vatclid you noiv a full half-hout-\ 60 13. [// is no Spirit who from LLeaven hath flow n\ . . 62 The Blind Highland Boy. \^N'o2o 7ve are tired of boisterous joy'\ 65 The Green Linnet. [The May is come ao^ain :—how siveet^ ycj To a Young Lady, who had been Reproached for taring long Walks in the Country. \Dear Child of Nature, let them rail I ^ S2 Previously printed in The Morning Post, Feb. I2tli, 1S02, under the title '''■ To a heaiiliful Young Lady who had been harslily spoken of on account of hei fondness for taking Long Walks in the Country." Stanzas. [By their floating ]\[ilf\ S4 Star Gazers. [ What cnmui is this 1 what have 7ve here ! we must not pass it /m'] 87 Power of Music. [An Orpheus I An Orpheus l^yes. Faith may grow bold\ 90 To THE Daisy. [With little here to do or sce\ 93 To THE Same Flower. [Bright Fhnver, whose home is everywhere .'] 97 F 2 68 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. PAGE Incident, Characteristic of a Favourite Dog, which Belonged to a Friend of the Author. \0n his vwrning rounds the Master] 99 Tribute to the Memory of the Same Dog. [Z/V here sequester d: — be this little inouud\ 102 Sonnet. Admonition. [ »5, there is holy pleasure ifi thine eye I] 105 Sonnet. \Though narrow be that old Ma7i's cares, and near] 106 Sonnet. A Prophecy, Feb., 1807, [High deeds, O Germans, are to come from you !] 107 Sonnet, to Thomas Clarkson, on the Final Passing of the Bill for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, March, 1807. ^Clarkson ! it was an obstinate Hill to climb'] 108 Stanzas. \Once in a loiiely Hamlet I sojourned] .... 109 Foresight, or the Charge of a Child to his Younger Companion. \That is ivork which I am rueing] . . 115 A Complaint. \There is a change — and I am poor] ... 117 Stanzas. [/ am not One who much or oft delight] .... 119 Stanzas. S^Yes I full surely ' twas the Echo] 123 To the Spade of a Friend. \Spade ! with which Wilkifison hath tiird his Lands] 125 Song, at the Feast of Brougham Castle. [High in the breathless Hall the Minstrel sate] 128 Lines Composed at Grasmere. [Loud is the Vale I the Voice is tip] i39 Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle. [/ ivas thy Neighbour once, thou rugged Pile] 141 Ode. [There 7vas a time when meadow, grove, and stream] 147 Note. —Each poem to wliich no reference is attached appeared for the first lime in these volumes. EDITIQNES PRINCIPES, ETC. 69 A curious and highly interesting copy of the Poems of 1807 is in my own possession. Each of the two volumes as published included certain cancel-leaves. Fortunately the original cancelled leaves, as well as the substituted cancels, are present in my pre- sumably unique example. These exhibit important variations in the text of the poems respectively occupying them. In Vol. I, the leaves cancelled are Sigs. D 11 and D 12, forming pp. 69 — 72. The last three of these pages carry the first five stanzas of the Ode to Duty, and in order that changes might be made in the text of this Ode the leaves were reprinted. These changes were by no means small, as the following analysis will shew. In the cancelled version the opening stanza reads thus : There an who tread a blameless -ivay In purity, and love, and truth, Though restifig o?i 710 better stay Than on the genial sense of youth : Glad Hearts ! without reproach or blot ; Who do the right, and know it not : May joy be theirs ivhile life shall last And may a genial sense remain, when youth is past. In the revised version this single stanza was replaced by the following two : Stern Daughter of the Voice of God ! * O Duty ! if that name thou love Who art a Light to guide, a Rod To check the erring, and reprove ; Thou who art victory and law When empty terrors overaive ; F?'Ofn vain tejnptations dost set free ; Fro7n strife and frotn despair ; a glorious ministry. yo r^IBLIOGRAPHV OF IVORDSIVORTIL There are 7vho ask not if fhi/ie eye Be on them ; who, in love and truth, Jl'herc no niis,s;iving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad Hearts ! without reproach or blot ; JVho do thy 7Vork, and knoiv it not : Ma V joy he theirs while life shall last I And Thou, if they should totter, teach them to stand fast I * Wordsworth's line Stern Danglilcr of llic Voice of God mny pussiljly have been an unconscious reminiscence of WiHiam Hawkins' Octe for St. Cecilia s Day, printed in Poems, 1781 : illiisic/;, essence holy, tii.^ti, Purest hcav'n is tJiy abode, TIioii, coeternal luitli ttie Deity, And danglilcr of the voice of God See also Paradise Lost, Book ix, lines 652-3 : God so commanded, and lefi Itiat command Sole daughter of tiis voice. The second stanza of the cancelled version differs but little from the third stanza of the revised version, though the lines present numerous textual variants. For instance, the last three ran originally : This creed, even no-w, do entertain. Do in this spirit live ; yet know That Man hath other hopes ; strength which elseivhcre must groxv. As reprinted they read : This faith, even >iow, do entertain : I Ave in the spirit of this creed ; Yet find that other strength, according to their need. The third stanza in the earlier version and the fourth in the later are also pretty well alike, the concluding line alone exhibiting any important change. But the fourth stanza of the earlier EDITIONES PR/XCTPES, ETC. 7' version was suppressed completel}', though its four closing h'nes were preserved by the Poet in the new stanza with which the Ode opened in the later version. Here it is : O Pcnver of Duty ! scut fivin God To enforce on earth his high hehest, And keep iis faithful to the road Which conscience hath pronounced the best : Thou, 7iiho art Victory and Law When empty terrors ovennve ; Front vain temptations dost set free, Fro)ti Strife, and from Despair, a glorious Ministry ! In V^ol. II, the leaf cancelled is Sig. B 2, forming pp. 3 — 4. These are the first two pages of Kob Rofs Grave. The third stanza of this poem as originally printed ran : Yet ivas Rob A'ov as ivise as brave. As 7i'ise in thoui;ht as bold in deed : For in the principles of thiiiiis He sought his /noral creed. This stanza Wordsworth expanded into two, as follows : Yet was Rob Roy as wise as brave ; Forgive me if the phrase be strong ; — A Poet worthy of J-iob Roy Must scorn a timid song. Say, then, that he was wise as brave As zvise in thought as bold in deed : For in the principles of things Ife sought his nu>ral creed. Space to accommodate the additional stanza was obtained by running back the second stanza of the poem to the preceding page. Thus in the cancelled version the first page carries the 72 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. opening eight-line stanza only ; in the revised version it carries the second stanza in addition. There are two copies of the First Edition of Poems, 1S07, in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-marks are C. 58. bb. 3, and C 61. b. 24. (2). In 1897 Wordsworth's Poems of 1807 were reprinted precisely page for page, in two volumes bearing the following title-page : Poems in Ttvo Volumes / By / JViV/iam IVot'dsworih / Reprinted from the original Edition of 1807 / Edited j With a Note on the Wordsworthian Sonnet / By Thomas Hutchinson, M. A. j Editor of the " Oxford JVords7uorth " / London j J^ublished by David Nutt in the Strand j 1S97. Collation : — Foolscap octavo, Vol. i, pp. xxxi.x -f- viii -I- 226 -f i. Vol. ii, pp. vii + 233 -f i. In 1 913 Wordsworth's Poems of 1807 were again reprinted verbatim, save for a few textual corrections made by the Poet in 1815, in the following volume : Wordsworth j Poems in Tivo Volumes j 1807 / L^ondon j ILenty Frowde / 1913. Collation: — Crown. octavo, pp. viii-f-352. (9) [The Convention of Cintra : 1809] Concerninc^ / the / Convention of Cintra, / in relation to / The Principles by which the Inde- pendence of / Nations must be Preserved or Recovered. / London : / Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, / Paternoster Row. / 1809. X CONCERNING ! CONTENTION OF CINT'RA, • JW HSIAnOS TO- tm t*a?^lJfS By WHICH THE INDB3?ENDENCB Of LONDON-: / iPaiNTEB 70B. LosuMAH, HvasT, }i£5Fa. ftcd Okus, ^*^, ; i , ,j. — .-'•_iJk'i-<-z^i^^ / '-C-<^.d'^'iw .^- /^^ The Excursion, Buok vi, lines 859— 88: EDITIONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 83 A (4 leaves), b (3 leaves), r* (4 leaves), and B to 3 L (56 sheets, each 4 leaves). Issued in drab paper boards, with white paper back-label, lettered " The j Excursion, / Being a Portion of / TJie Recluse, / A Poem. / Bj W. Wordsiuorth." The leaves measure ii^ X 8| inches. The published price was Two Guineas. A Second Edition of T/ie Excursion was issued, in demy octavo size, in 1820. An edition in foolscap octavo was printed in 1832, and was reprinted from stereo-plates in 1836, 1841, 1844, 1847, 1851, and under other dates. This edition also formed Vol. vi of the six-vol. edition, 1836 — 1 837, of the /-"(^tVAvr/ Works of Williain Wordsiuortli. Lengthy as The Excursion is, it does not constitute a completed Poem, but is, as the title-page informs us, a portion only of the projected, but never completed, masterpiece. The Recluse. Of this work The Excursion formed the second of the three contemplated Parts into which the Poem was to be divided. No further portion was published during the lifetime of the Poet, but in 1888 the First Part of the First Book was issued alone under the title originally destined for the entire work [see post. No. 34]. The Prelude, designed by Wordsworth to serve as an Introduction to The Recluse, also remained in manuscript until 1850, when, shortly after the Poet's death, it appeared alone as An Auto- biographical Poem. [See/(?iV, No. 33.] Contents. Dedicatory Sonnet. \_Oft, through thy fair domains, illustrious Peer /] v Preface, including the 107 closing lines of the First Part of the First Book of The Recluse. SfDn Alan, on Nature, and on Human Life'\ x * The first leaf of this sheet (which forms pp. xv — xxii, and is placed between Sigs. 3 H and 3 I) has no register, and the third leaf is signed c only. i; 2 84 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. When, in iSSS, the Plrst Part of the First Book of The Rerhise was at length pubhshed [see post^ No. 34], these Unes duly reappeared on pp. 49 — 56. PAGE The Excursion : Book I. The Wanderer. S^Tivas Suinmer, and the sun had mounted hig]i\ 3 Book II. The Solitary. \In days of yore how fortu- nately fare dA^ 51 Book III. Despondency. \A humming Bee — a little tinkling Rill\ 95 Book IV. Despondency Corrected. \^Here closed ike Tenant of that lonely Vale] 141 Book V. The Pastor. \Farezvelldeep Valley, with thy one rude House] 201 Book VI. The Church-yard among the Mountains. [Hail to the Crown by Freedom shaped — to gird] ... 249 Book VII. The Church-yard among the Moun- tains— Cf////;/;/^^. [While thus from theme to theme the Historian passed] 309 Book VII L The Parsonage. [Tlie pensive Sceptic of the lonely Vale] 359 Book IX. Discourse of the Wanderer, and an Eyening Visit to the Lake. [To every Form of Being is assigned] 387 Summary of Contents xvii Notes [including an Essay upon Epitaphs, pp. 431 — 446J . 425 The Essay upon Epitaphs had previously appeared in The Friend, No. 25, February I2iui, iSio, pp. 402 — 416. There is a copy of the First Edition of The Excursion in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is 643 1. iS. fcl r/ie" Excursion, Book vii, Hnes 31 — 49- F.DIT/ONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 87 [Poems: 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. [F^?/. //.] / London:/ Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, / Paternoster- Row. / 18 15. Vol. I. Collation : — Demy octavo, pp. lii + 375 ; consisting of: Title-page, as above (with imprint " T. Davison. Lovibard-street, / W hitefriars , London " at the foot of the reverse) pp. i — ii ; Dedication " To Sir George Howland Beaumont, Bart'' pp. iii — v ; p. vi is blank ; Preface pp. vii — xHi ; Contents (of both volumes) pp. xHii — H ; List oi Errata and Corrections for both volumes p. lii ; Fly-title to Poems referring to the period of Childhood (with blank reverse) pp. I — 2 ; Text of the Poems pp. 3 — 60 ; Fly-title to fuvenile Pieces (with blank reverse) pp. 61 — 62 ; Text of the Pieces pp. 63- — 90 ; Fly-title to Poems founded on the Affections (with blank reverse) pp. 91 — 92 ; Text of the Poems pp. 93—232 ; Fly- title to Poems of the Fancy (with blank reverse) PP- 233—234 ; Text of the Poems pp. 235—293 ; p. 294 is blank ; Fly-title to Poems of the Imagination (with blank reverse) pp. 295 — 296 ; 88 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. Text of the Poems pp. 297 — 337 ; p. 338 is blank ; Notes to Volume I (with blank reverse) pp. 339 — 340 ; and Essay, Supplementary to the Preface pp. 341 — 375. Upon the centre of p. 375 the imprint is repeated. There are no head-Hnes, the pages being numbered centrally throughout in Arabic numerals. The signatures are a to c (3 sheets, each 8 leaves), d (a quarter-sheet of 2 leaves), B to AA (23 sheets, each 8 leaves) plus BB (a half-sheet of 4 leaves). The volume was issued without any half-title. Vol. If. Collation : — Demy octavo, pp. ii + 400 ; consisting of Title-page, as above (with imprint " T. Davison, Lombard-street, j Whitefriars, London " at the foot of the reverse) pp. i — ii ; Fly-title to Poems of the Imagination coji tinned (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Text of the Poems pp. 3 — 80 ; Fly-title to Poems proceeding from Sentiment and Reflection (with blank reverse) pp. 81 — 82 ; Text of the Poems pp. %i — 156; Fly-title to Miscellaneous Sonnets (with blank reverse) pp. 157 — 158; Text of the Sonnets pp. 159 — 195 ; p. 196 is blank ; Fly-title to Sonnets dedicated to Liberty. Part First (with blank reverse) pp. 197 — 198 ; Text of the Sonnets pp. 199 — 224; Fly-title to Sonnets dedicated to Liberty. Part Second (with blank reverse) pp. 225 — 226; Text of the Sonnets pp. 227 — 258 ; Fly- title to Poems on the Naming of Places (with Note upon reverse) pp. 259 — 260; Text of the Poems pp. 261 — 279; p. 280 is blank; Fly-title to EDIT! ONES PRLVCIPES, ETC. 89 Inscriptions (with blank reverse) pp. 281— 2S2 ; Text of the Inscriptions pp. 283—293 ; p. 294 is blank ; Fly-title to Poems referring to the Period of Old Age (with blank reverse) pp. 295—296 ; Text of the Poems pp. 297—323 ; p. 324 is blank ; Fly-title to Epitaphs and Elegiac Poems (with blank reverse) pp. 325 — 326; Text of the Epitaphs, &c., pp. 327—344 ; Fly-title to Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of early Childhood (with quotation upon reverse) pp. 345— 346 ; Text of the Ode pp. 347—355 ; P- 35^ is blank ; Notes to Volume II pp. 357— 3^1 ; p- 3^2 is blank ; and Preface to the Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads pp. 363—400. At the foot of p. 400 the imprint is repeated. There are no head-lines, the pages being numbered centrally throughout in Arabic numerals. The signatures are B to C C (25 sheets, each 8 leaves), the whole preceded by a single unsigned leaf carrying the title-page. P. 400 is misnumbered 440. The volume was issued without any half-title. Issued in blue-grey paper boards, backed with drab, with white paper back-label, lettered " WordsivortJis / Poems: j Inchidivg / Lyrical Ballads. / Vol. I. {Vol. I/.]." The leaves measure 8| X 5i inches. Occasionally copies may be met with having the paper boards wholly drab. The published price was Twenty-eight Shillings the two volumes. Illustrations. Frontispiece to Vol. I. A view illustrating the fourth stanza of Lucy Gray, engraved by J. C. Bromley from a picture by Sir George Beaumont, Bart. 90 ninLIOGRAPflY OF WORDSWORTH. Frontispiece to Vol. II. A view of Peele Castle, engraved by S. W. Reynolds from a picture by Sir George Beaumont, Bart. In 1820 a third volume, with the following title-page, was added : Poems / By { Wi//i'nm Words7Vorth : j ijicluding / The River Duddoii ; / Vandnicoiir and Julia ; j Peter Bell ; The Wag- goner ; I A Thanksgiving Ode ; / and / Miscellaneous Pieces, j Vol. HI. I Lo)idon : / Printed for Longman, Hi/rst, Pees, Ornie, and Brotvn., / Paternoster- Row. / 1820. Issued in drab paper boards, with white paper back-label, uniform with the two earlier volumes. This volume was made up of ' remainder ' sheets of the four following books, with the above title-page prefixed : Thanksgiving Ode, 1816 Peter Bell, A Tale in Verse, 1819 The Waggoner, A Poem, 1819 The River Dud don, 1820 The general title-page for Vol. iii, together with the printed back-label, was also inserted at the end of The River Duddon, &c., thus enabling owners of the four separate publications to bind them together themselves. Doubtless the fact that a large proportion of the copies originally printed were employed to form this volume is the reason why examples of the above four works are difficult to find in the original bindings. At the same time the composite volume of 1820 is itself by no means easy to acquire in proper condition, with boards unbroken and labels intact. Contents. The contents of these two volumes consist of reprints of the pieces which had ah'eady appeared in the Lyrical Ballads of 1805 and the Poems of 1S07, EDIT/ONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 91 supplemente;! by a number of new poems and sonnets which had been composed during the interval, together with a few which had appeared in The Friend and The Morning Post. The pieces which had appeared previously were submitted to severe revision, and in very many instances the changes introduced were of the most drastic nature. But in preparing the volumes Wordswortli discaray does the Wind come? What way does he go ]\ 8 The Mother's Return. \_A month, siveet Little-ones, is passed \ II Influence of Natural Objects in calling forth and strengthening the Im.agination in Boyhood and early Youth. [ Wisdom and Spirit of the Uni- verse f^ 44 Previously printed (under the tentative title Gro-cvth of Genius from the Influences of Natural Objects, on the Imagination in Boyhood, and early Youth) in The Friend, No. 19, December zSth, 1809, PP- 303—304- Extract from the Conclusion of a Poem, Composed upon leaving School. \^Dear native Regions, I foretell] 63 92 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. PAGE Verses Composed in the Year 1S02. \_Fareivcn^ thou little Nook of moimtahi-grou7id\ 117 Stanzas Written in my Pocket-copy of Thomson's Castle of Indolence. [ Within our happy Castle there dwelt One\ 121 The Cottager to her Infant. \The days are cold, the nights are long\ 160 Laodamia. \^'' With sacrifice, before the 7-ising i)iorn\ . . . 225 Address to my Infant Daughter. [Hast thou then survived'\ 290 A Night-piece. \The sky is overcast^ 301 Yew-trees. \_There is a Yetv-tree, pride of Lorton lu^lc^^ . 303 View from the Top of Black Comp. [This Height a n/inistering Angel might select] 305 Vol. II. Yarrow Visited. [And is this — Yarrow 1 — This the stream] 20 French Revolution, As it appeared to Enthusiasts AT ITS commencement. [Oh f pleasant exercise of hope and Joy /] 69 Previously printed, but without tlie title, in The Friend, No. ii, Octof>er 26tti, 1809, p. 163. These lines were extracted from Wordsworth's poem T/ie Prelude, at that time unpublished. They eventually formed lines 106 — 145 of Bool: XI of that work, and are to he found upon pp. 299 — 301 of the edition of 1850. The Force of Prayer ; or, the Founding of Bolton Priory. [" JVhat is good for a bootless hene?"] . . . 146 Upon the Sight of a Beautiful Picture. [Praised be the Art whose subtle po'wer could stay] 160 EDITION ES PRINCIPES, ETC. 93 PACK Sonnets: \The fairest, brightest hues of ether fade\ 161 [" IVea/c is the will (f A/an, his jtidgviejit hiind''] . 162 \Hail Tivilight, — sovereig7iof one peacfful hour !'\ . . 163 [ The SJiepherd, looking easttvard, softly said\ ... 1 64 S^Even as a drago)i's eye that feels the stress^ .... 167 \Afark the concentred Hazels that enclose^ 168 To THE Poet, Dyer, [Bard of the Fleece, 7vhose skilful Genius )nade"\ 173 Sonnets : [Brook, whose society the Poet seeks^ 1S6 [Surprized by joy — impatient as the 7vind\ .... kjo Composed on the Eve of the Marriage of a Friend, IN the Vale of Gkasmere. [ JVhat need of clamour- ous bells, or ribbands gay^ 192 On approaching Home after a Tour in Scotland. [Fly, some kind Spirit, fly to Grasniere Vale ,'] ... 193 To . [From the dark chambers of dejection freed^ , 194 Sonnets Dedicated to Liberty : On a Celebrated Event in Ancient History. [A Ko))ian Afaster stands on Grecian ground] .... 227 Upon the Same Event. [ JVhen, far and wide, stvift as the beams of niorn\ 228 Composed while the Author was Engaged in Writing a Tract, occasioned by the Conven- tion OF CiNTRA, 1808. [Not 'mid the World' s vain objects that enslave] 231 Composed at the same ti?*ie and on the same OCCASION. [/ dropped my pen ; — and listened to the ivind] 232 94 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. PAGE Z7> HoFFER. \^0f mortal Pare7its is the Hero borTi\ . ... 2 Previously printed (with considerable differences of text, and without the title Hoffer) in The Friend, No. Ii, Octoba- 26^ h, 1809, p. 171. ^Advance — come foi'th from thy Tyrolean groniid\ . 234 Previously printed in IVw Friend, No. 11, October 26(h, 1S09, p. 171. Feelings of the Tvrolese. [The land we from our leathers had in trust] 235 Previously printed in The Friend, No. 18, December 21 s(, 1809, P- 273. Sonnets : [Alas f what boots the lo?ig, laborious quest] .... 236 Previously printed, under the title Sonnet Suggested by the efforts of the Tyrolcse, contrasted with the present state of Germany, in The Friend, No. 13, November i6th, 1809, p. 208. [And is it among rude untutored Dales] 237 Previously printed in The Friend, No. iS, December 21st, 1809, p. 274. [O'er the wide earth, on mountain and on plain] . . 238 Previously printed in The Friend, No. iS, December 21st, 1809, p. 274. On the Final Submission of the Tyrolese. [// 7C'as a moral end for which they fought] 239 Previously printed in 2Vie Friend. No. 18, December 21st, 1S09, p. 274. Sonnets : [Hail, Zaragoza ! If ivith uinvet eye] 240 [Say, 2vhat is Honour ? — 'Tis the f nest sense] ... 241 [The martial courage of a day is vain] 242 [Brave Schill I by death delivered, take thy flight] . 243 [Call not the royal Szaede unfortunate] 244 [Look n02V on that Adventurer 7vho hath paid] . . 245 [Is there a Power that can sustain and chee?-] . . . 246 1810. [Ah/ zvhere is Falafox? Nor tons^ue nor pen] . 247 [In due observance of a?i ancie/it rite] 248 EDITIONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 95 PAGE Feelings of a Noble Blscayan at one of these Funerals. [ Yet, yet Biscay ans, we ttiiist meet our Foes\ 249 The Oak of Guernica. [Oak of Guernica! Tree of holier poiver\ 250 Indignation of a High-minded Spaniard. [ We can endure that He should waste otir la}jds\ 251 Sonnets : \Avauiit all specious pliattcy of inind'\ 252 yO'erweening Statesmen have full long relied^^ ... 253 The French, and the Spanish Guerillas. [Hunger, and sultry heat, and nippifig l>lasts'\ 254 Spanish Guerillas. [They seek, are sought ; to daily battle led] 255 [The p07i'er of Armies is a visible thing] 256 Conclusion. [Here pause : the Poet claims at least this praise] 257 Added, November, 18 13. [No7v that all hearts arc glad, alt faces bright] 258 Lines. [When, to the attractions of the busy JForld] . . . 275 Written with a Slate-pencil, on a Stone, on the Side of the Mountain of Black Comb. [Stay, bold Adventurer ; rest aivhile thy limbs] 285 In the Grounds of Coleorton, the Seat of Sir George Beaumont, Bart., Leicestershire. [The embo7c\^" H 4 :^/^ ^ ^- V ^^ ^.^ s^ 4 "^ 'V ^ V^ ■'n A, ■A ,< • a v'' "^v' i""'"^ - vi'v**" ^ \ i' ^ :t\>i ^ ""•S-^ ^^• ""^ "^ V v^ iS ^^^ ^\M - X-^ ^ ^^ ^^ :'.^ EDIT/ONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 99 uorth. They were written by his sister Dorothy, and each is notified beneath its title as being ' By a Female Friend.' Wordsworth alluded to these in his Preface, p. xli, where he remarked : " Three short pieces {nmv first published ) air the work of a Fei)iale Friend ; and tJie Reader^ to luhoi/i they may be acceptable, is indebted to vie for his pleasure; if aiiv one ret^ard them loith disli/ce, or be disposed to condemn them, let the censure fall upon him, who. trustini^ in his own sense of their merit and tlieir fitness for the place they occupy, extorted them from the Authoress'^ There is a copy of the First Edition of Poems 181 5 in tlie Lil)rarv of the liritish Museum. 'I'he I'ress-mark is 992. 1. 29 — 30. (12) [The Wihtk Doe of Rvlstoxe : 181 5] The / White Doe / of / Rylstone ; / or / The Fate of the Nortons. / A Poem. / By / WiUiam Words- worth. / London : / Printed for / Longman, Hurst, Rees, Onne, and Brown, / PaternosterT'low, / By James Ballantyne and Co., Edinburgh. / 18 15. Collation: — Quarto, pp. xii + 162; consisting of: Half- title (with blank reverse) pp. i — -ii ; Title-page, as above (with blank reverse) pp. iii— iv ; Prefatory Note, styled Advertisement (with blank reverse) pp. v — ^vi ; Preliminary Sonnet, with quotation from l^acon below (with blank reverse) pp. vii — viii ; Dedicatory Poem to Mary Wordsworth, the Poet's Wife, pp. ix — xi ; p. xii is blank ; Text of The lJ7//te Doe of Ryf stone (including Fly-titles to each of the Seven Cantos) pp. i — 130; Fh--titlc to I'lie H 2 loo BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. Force of Prayer, &c. (with blank reverse) pp. 131 — 132; Text of TJie Force of Prayer pp. 133 — 137; p. 138 is blank ; Fly-title to Notes (with blank reverse) pp. 139 — 140; and Text of the Notes pp. 141 — ^162. At the foot of p. 162 is the following- imprint : " Edinburgh : j Printed by James Ballantyne & Co." There are head-lines throughout, each page being headed with title of the section of the book (and, in the case of T/ie White Doe, with the number of the Canto) occupying it. The signatures are a (4 leaves), b (2 leaves), A to U (20 sheets, each 4 leaves), and X (one leaf). Issued in drab paper boards, with white paper back- label, lettered ''The / White Doe, / A Poem. / By / W. Wordsivorth." The leaves measure iig X 8| inches. The published price was Twenty-one Shillings. The book has, as Frontispiece, an illustration to the Poem, engraved by J. C. Bromley from a painting by Sir George Beaumont. Confetits. PAGE Preliminary Sonne r. [ JVeak is the 7viil of Man, his judgement hlind\ \ii Dp:dicatory Poem. \^ln trellis d sJied 7vith clustering 7-oses g'^y\ ix The White Doe of Rylstone : Canto I. \From Bolton s old monastic to7verA^ 3 Canto 2. \The Harp in loivliness obeyed^ 25 Canto 3. \Noiv joy for you and sudden cliear\ 43 Canto 4. \_From cloudless elher lookuig dowfi] 65 EDIT/ONES PRINC/PES, ETC. loi I'A(;e Canto 5. ^High on a point of riii^ged groujid\ 81 Canto 6. \\Vhy comes 7iot Fraticis ; — Joyful chear\ ... 97 Canto 7. \Thou Spirit., 7v]iose angelic hand\ 11 r The Force of Prayer ; or the Founding of Bolton Priory. \]Vhat is good for a bootless bene 1^ .... 133 Previously printed in Poems, 1815, Vol. ii, pp. 146 — 149. Notes • 141 There is a copy of the First Edition of The White Doe of Rylstone in the Library of the British Museum. Tlie Press-mark is 644. k. 26. (i). (13) [A Letter to a Friend of Robert Burns : 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. / 1S16, Collation: — Demy octavo, pp. iv + 37 ; consisting of: Half-title (with blank reverse, and with the following imprint at foot : " T. Davison, Lombard-street, j Whitefriars, London ") pp. i — ii ; Title-page, as above (with blank reverse) pp. iii — iv ; and Text of the Letter (which is dated " Rydal Mount, January, 1816") pp. I — '^J. The reverse of p. 37 I02 BIBLIOGRAPHV OF WORDSWORni. is blank. There arc no head-lines, the pages being numbered centrally in Arabic numerals. The signatures are A (a quarter-sheet of 2 leaves), B and C (2 sheets, each 8 leaves), and D (a half- sheet of 4 leaves). Sig. D4 has the imprint repeated upon its verso, the recto remaining blank. Issued in plain drab paper wrappers, without either lettering or label. The leaves measure 8 J X 5^ inches. The published price was Two Shillings and Sixpence. '\\\\% Letter (addressed to James (/.ray, originally of Dumfries, and afterwards of Edinburgh) was reprinted in The Prose Works of William IVordsicort/i, Edited by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart, 1S76, \o\. ii, pp. 3 — ig. Again reprinted in P>-ose JJ'orks of M'llliatii Words7vorth, Edited by William Knight, 1S96, Vol. ii, pp. 257 — 277. There is a copy of the First Edition of A Letter to a Friend of Liobert Jh/n/s in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is 1164. g. 11. (14) [Thanksgiving Ode: 1S16] TlKinksi^iving- Ode, / Jcinuai-y 18, 1S16. / With / Other Short Pieces, / Chiefly referring to Recent PubHc Events./ By Wihiam Wordsworth./ London:/ Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars ; / for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. / Pater- noster-Row. / 1 81 6. Collation: — Octavo, pp. 12 + 52; consisting of: Title- page, as above (with blank reverse) pp. i — ii ; ' EDITIONES P RING I PES, ETC. 103 Preface (styled Advertisement) pp. iii — ix ; Biblio- graphical Note p. X ; Table of Contents p. xi ; p. xii is blank ; Fly-title to Thanksgiving Ode (with blank reverse) pp. I — 2 ; Text of the Ode pp. 3 — 21 ; p. 22 is blank ; Fly-title to Ode, cotnposed in Jannaiy, 1S16 (with quotation from Horace upon the reverse) pp. 23 — 24; Text of the Ode, pp. 25 — 32 ; Fly-title to Jlliscel/aneons Pieces, Referring Chiefiy to Public Events (with blank reverse) pp. 33 — 34 ; and Text of the Miscellaneous Pieces pp. 35 — 52. i\t the foot of \). 52 is the following imprint: '' T. Davison, Lombard-street, l WJiitefriars, London." There are no head-lines, the pages being numbered centrally in ^Arabic numerals. The signatures are A (6 leaves), B to D (3 sheets, each 8 leaves), and E (2 leaves). The book w-as issued without any half-title. Issued in dark green paper wrappers, with white paper side-label, lettered " Thanksgiving Ode. / By j IV. Wordsworth" The leaves measure 9 X 5| inches. The published price was Four Shillings. When uncut in the original paper wrappers the First Edition of Thanksgiving Ode is a rare book. Apparently a large majority of the copies printed were employed, together with Peter Bell, The ]Vaggoner, and The River Duddon, to form the supplementary volume [dated 1S20] to the Poems of 1815. [See ante, p. 90.] Contents. PAGE Odk, the Morning of the Day appointed for a General Thanksgiving. January 18, 18 16. [^Hail, universal Source of pure delight] 3 I04 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. PACE Inscription for a National Monument in com- memoration OF THE Battle of Waterloo. \^Intrepid sotis of Albioti ! — not by you\ 35 Previously printed in The Champion, February \th, 1816. Occasioned hy the same Battle. \The Bard, whose soul is f/ieek as daivnbig day] 36 Sonnet, February, 1816. [O, for a kindling touch of that pure flaine\ 37 Previously printed in Tlie Champion, February a,th, 1816. Sonnet, September, 18 15. [IVhile not a leaf seems faded, — 7vhile the fields] 38 Previously printed in The E.\aminer, February nth, 1S16. Sonnet, November i, 1815. [Ho7v clear, hoiv keen, hoiv marvellously bright] 39 Previously printed in The Examiner, January z^th, 1816. To B. R. Haydon, Esq. {^HigJi is our calling, Friend ! — Creative Art] 40 Previously printed in I'lie Champion, February ^ih. 1816. Composed in Recollection of the Expedition of the I'RExNCH into Russia. \^Ifumanity, delighting to behold] 41 Sonnet on the same occasion. [ )'e Storms, resound the praises of your King /] 44 On THE Disinterment of the Remains of the Duke D'Enchien. [Dear Reliqucs ! from a pit of vilest mould] 45 Ode. \^]Vho rises on the banks of Seine] 46 Elegiac Verses. \_Rest, rest, perturbed Earth] 50 Note. — Each poem to which no reference is attached appeared for the first time in this volume. There is a copy of the First Edition of Tha?iksgiving Ode in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is 992. 1. 31. EDIT/ONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 105 (15) [Two Addresses to the Freeholders of West- moreland : 18 18] Two / Addresses / to the / Freeholders / of / Westmoreland. / Kendal : / Printed by Airey and Bellingham. / 181S. Collation : — Demy octavo, printed in half-sheets, pp. ii + 74 -j-iv ; consisting of: Title-page, as above (with blank reverse) pp. i — ii ; Preface, styled Advertise- ment (with a brief Note To the Reader upon the reverse) pp. i — 2 ; and Text of the Two Addresses pp. 3 — 74. Following p. 74 are four unnumbered pages of Notes. There are no head-lines, the pages being numbered centrally in Arabic numerals. Beyond that upon the title-page there is no printer's imprint. The signatures are A (5 leaves) plus B to K (9 half-sheets, each 4 leaves). Sig K 4 is a blank. The book was issued without any half-title. Issued ' stabbed,' and without wrappers. The leaves measure 8| x 5i inches. In the course of his Preface (dated '■'March 26, ]8i8") Wordsworth remarks : " The matter comprised in these pages was intemtcd to compose a succession of Addresses to be printed in the '•Kendal Chronicle^' and a part of the first luas picblished through that channel. The intention was dropped for reasons well kno7vn. It is now mentioned in order to account for the disproportion in the length of the two Addresses, and an arrangement of matter., in some places., different from what would otherwise have been chosen. A portion also has appeared in the ' Carlisle Patriot. ' " io6 LUBLIOGRAPIIY OF WORDSWORTJf. I have never been able to trace copies of either the Kouial Chrfliiicle or the Carlisle Patriot for the period required, and am therefore unable to record the precise dates upon which the respective portions of Wordsworth's Addresses appeared in them. The Two Addresses were reprinted in The Prose Works of William Wordsworth., Edited by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart, 1S76, Vol. i, pp. 211 — 270. They were again reprinted in Prose Works of William IJ'ordiworth, Edited by William Kniglit, 1896, Vol. ii, pp. 279—332- There is a copy of the First Edition of Tivo Addresses to the Freeholders of Westniorelaiid in the Library of the British Museum. The rress-mark is 8135. ^- 43- (16) [Peter Bell: 1819J 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. 1819. Collation: — Octavo, pp. viii*-t-88; consisting of: Half- title (with blank reverse) pp. i — ii ; Title-page, as above (with blank reverse) pp. iii — iv ; Dedication ''To Robert Sou they, Esq. P.ir (dated '' Rydal Mount, April 7, i8l9"t) pp. v — vii ; p. viii is blank ; Text of Peter Bell {Prologue and three * These preliminary pages are wrongly nuniheied, Uie half-lille having been excluded from the pagination. 7 The Frontispiece is dated, at fool, " March 1. 1819.'' oV/7, lilies 946— ybo. EDIT/ONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 109 ■ • Parts) pp. I- — 82 ; Fly-title to Sonnets, suggested by Mr. W. WestaWs Viezvs of the Caves, &-€., in Yorkshire (with bibliographical note upon the reverse) pp. ^tT, — S4 ; and Text of the Sonnets pp. 85 — 88. There are head-lines throughout, pp. 2 — 82 being headed Peter Bell, together with the number of the Part, and pp. 85 — 88 Sonnets. At the foot of p. 88 is the following imprint : " Printed by StraJian and Spotiisivoode, / Printers-Street, London!' The signatures are A (4 leaves), B to F (5 sheets, each 8 leaves), and G (4 leaves). The Volume has a Frontispiece "Engraved by J. C. Bromley, from a picture by Sir George Beaumont, Bart." illustrating the Sonnets. Issued in drab paper wrappers, with white paper back- label. The leaves measure 8^ x 5f inches. The published price was Five Shillings and Sixpence. A Second Edition of Peter Bell followed in the same year iSig. After this date every version of the poem included by Wordsworth in the successive editions of his Poetical ^Vorks lacked the following stanza, which originally formed Part i, Stanza 73, and appeared on p. 39 of the First and Second Editions : Is it a party in a parhmr ? Cranun' d Just as they on earth were crani.ni'd — Some sipping punch, some sipping tea. But, as you by their faces see, All silent and all damned I no BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. Peter Bell, when uncut in the original paper wrappers, is an exceedingly uncommon book. It is evident that the majority of the copies printed were employed, together with The Wag- f^oner, &c., to form Vol. iii [dated 1820] of the Poems of 1815. [See ante, p. 90.] But why a Second Edition should have been printed in 18 19, when so many copies of the First Edition still remained on hand in the following year, is a mystery. C(ni tents. I' AGE Peter Bell : Prologue. ^There's so))iet]iiiig in a flyiiii::; ]i07-se\ .... i Part First. S^All by the mooulij^ht river side~\ 15 Part Second. \^We left our Jiero in a trance\ 41 Part Third. \^rve heard of one, a gentle sonl^ 56 Sonnets, suggested bv Mr. ^V. ^VESTALL■s Views of THE Caves, &c., in Yorkshire : T. \Pure element of 7vaters ! u'lieresoe'er'\ 85 Previously printed in BlaclcivoocT s Magazine, /aiinaiy, 1S19, p. 471. 2. GoRDAi,E. '[At early dawn, — or rather ivhen the air^ 86 Previously printed in Blackwood's Magazine, faiuiaiy, 1S19, p. 471. 3. Malham Cove. [ Was the aim frustrated by force or guile"\ 87 Previously printed in Blackivood' s Magazine, famtary, 1819, ]). 471. Composed during one of the most awful of the late Storms, Fed. 181 9. [One who 7oas suffering tumult in his soul^ 88 No/c'. — Each poem to which no reference is attached appeared for the first time in this volume. There is a copy of the First Edition of Peter Bell, A Tale in Verse in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is 992. 1. 31. EDIT/ONES PRINCIPES, ETC. in (17) [The Waggoner: 1S19] The / Waggoner, / A Poem. / To which are added, / Son lie fs. I By / WilHam Wordsworth. / " II Via/' s in a Ahxiiic .^ " / ''Brutus ivill start a Spirit as soon as Ccrsarf" I London: / Printed by Strahan and Spottiswoode, Printers- Street ; / Por Longman. Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, / Paternoster- Row. / 1819. Collation: — Octavo, pp. iv -f 68 ; consisting of: Title- page, as above (with blank reverse) pp. i — ii ; Dedication " To Cliartes Lamb, Esq." (dated " Rydal Mount, May 20///, 1 8 19") pp. iii — iv ; Text of Tlie Waggoner (in four Cantos) pp. I — 54 ; Fl}'-tit]e to Sonnets (with blank reverse) pp. 55 — 56 ; and Text of the twelve Sonnets pp. 57 — 68. There are head-lines throughout, pp. I — 54 being headed Tlie Waggoner together with the number of the Canto, and pp. 55 — 68 Sonnets. At the foot of p. 68 is the following imprint: "Printed by StraJian and Spottiszvoode, j Printers-Street, London.'^ The signatures are A (2 leaves), B to E (4 sheets, each 8 leaves), and F (2 leaves). The book was issued without any half-title. Issued in drab paper wrappers, with white paper back- label, lettered " Tlie Waggo)ier, > By W. Wordswoi-t/i." The leaves measure 8|x5| inches. The published price was Four Shillings and Sixpence. 112 lilBLIOGRAPHV OF WORDSWORTH. When uncut in the original paper wrappers The Waggoner is a scarce book, most of the copies having apparently been bound up with Peter Bell, &c., to form the Third Volume [dated 1820] of the Poems of 1S15. [See ante, p. 90.] Contents. The Waggoner : page Canto I. \^Tis spent — this burning day of June .'\ . . i Canto II. \If Wythebiirn's modest House of Pray er\ . 19 Canto III. \^Ri^ht gladly had the horses stirr'd~\ . ... 30 Canto IV. [Thus they, with freaks of proud delight'] . . 39 Sonnets : I. [Aerial Rock — ivhose solitary brou<] 57 11. Written upon a Blank Leaf in " The Complete Angler." [ While flowing Rivers yield a blameless sport] 58 III. The Wild Duck's Nest. [The Imperial Consort of the Fairy Ki)ig\ 59 IV. [Fallen, and diffused into a shapeless heap,] ... 60 V. Captivity. [As the cold aspect of a sunless ioay'\ . 6r VI. To a Snow-drop, appearing very early in the Season. [Lone Floiver, hemmed in with snows avd 7(.ihite as they] 62 VII. To THE River Derwent. [Among the moun- tains were ice ?turs'd, lov^d Stream .'] . ■ ■ 63 VIII. Composed in one of the Valleys of West- moreland, ON Easter Sunday. [With each recurrence of this glorious morn"] 64 IX. [Grief thou hast lost an ever ready Friend] ... 65 X. [/watch, and kmg luwe watch'd, tvith calm regret] 66 XI. [I heard {^alas, "'twas only in a dream)] 67 XII. [Eve's lingering clouds extend in solid bars] ... 68 There is a copy of the First Edition of The Waggoner in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is 992. 1. 31. ED IT I ONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 113 (18) [The River Duddon : 1S20] 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, / 1820. Collation: — Octavo, pp. viii + 321 ; consisting of: Title- page, as above (with imprint " Printed by A. and R. Spottiswoodc, I Printers-Street, London " at the foot of the reverse) pp. i — ii ; Dedication, " To the Rev. Christopher Wordsworth, D.D.^' &c. (with blank- reverse) pp. iii — iv , Prefatory Note, styled Adver- tisement (with blank reverse) pp. v — vi ; Table of Contents pp. vii — viii ; Fly-title to The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets (with topographical note upon the reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Text of the thirty- three Sonnets pp. 3 — 35 ; p. 36 is blank ; Postscript pp. 37 — 39 ; p. 40 is blank ; Notes pp. 41—68 ; Fly- title to Vaudracour and Julia (with prefatory note upon the reverse) pp. 69 — 70 ; Text of Vaudracour and Julia pp. 71 — d>6 ; Text of miscellaneous Poems pp. 87 — 172 ; Fly-title to The Prioress's Tale (with prefatory note upon the reverse) pp. 173 — 174 ; Text of The Prioress's Tale,&c. pp. 175 — 212 ; Fly- title to Topographical Descriptions of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England (with prefatory I 114 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. note upon the reverse) pp. 213 — 214; and Text of \.\\e Descriptions pp. 215 — 321. Upon the reverse of p. 321 is a List of Errata, with the imprint repeated at foot. With the exception of pp. 158 and 194 — 212 (which are numbered centrally) there are head-lines throughout, each page being headed with the title of the poem occupying it. The signatures are A (4 leaves), B to X (20 sheets, each 8 leaves), and Y (2 leaves). Sig. M 6 (pp. 171 — 172) is a cancel-leaf. The second leaf of Sig. Y carries a collective title-page, enabling The River Duddoii, Peter Bell, The Waggoner, and a Thanksgiving Ode to be bound together as Vol. iii of Wordsworth's Poems, thus combining them with the two volumes already published in 181 5. Many copies have inserted a printed slip intended to be employed as a back-label for such a volume. The book was issued without any half-title. Issued in drab paper boards, with white paper back-label, lettered : " Wordswortlis / River / Duddon / &cy The leaves measure 8| x 5| inches. The published price was Twelve Shillings. Contents. The River Duddon. Sonneis : pagu I. \_Not envying shades which haply yet may thro7v'\ 3 II. \Child of the clouds I remote front every taint^ . . 4 III \^Hoio shall I paint thee ? — Be this naked stone] . 5 IV. \Take, cradled Nursling of the mountain, take\ . 6 V. \Sole listener, Duddon 1 to the breeze that played] 7 VI. ^'lowers. \Ere yet our course tuas graced unth social t/ees] 8 VII. I " Change me, some God, into that breathing rose .'' "] 9 VIII. [ What aspect bore the man ivhe roved or fled\ . . 10 r A- ■ ^' ^ ■ ' /^•.^.^:'A^ ^^- ^^^--^U^ ^£c^ / 'Py^.-:^ '^4 „„..„,^ -"^^^ ^t* _ The Kiver DadJoii, Sonnet xix, Tributary Slrcam. EDITIONRS PRINCIPES, ETC. 117 PAGE IX. The Stepping-Stones. [Tlie sfn/go//;!g j^/// insensibly is gro7i'n] 11 X. The Same Suhject. [Al'o/ so tliat Pair whose youthful spirits daneel 12 XI. The Faerv Chasm. [Xo fiction zvns it of the antique age\ 13 XII. Hints FOR THE Fancv \0n, loitering Muse ' — The swift Stream chides us — '^^ t/>/. / ('^C' / y^^ :/■ 1^ .■,i^/;,t^^gf^vMz:^'«y^ A-'f^ J^.-^ / x '-■' / y / . y ^ ^' y''>^ ^ y/^ y / - . ^^f/A-y-yu^. ,>y^^ ^'-'^ y. y ^w-r-r- > y ^^ysE^.-^:^^ ■/i~Vd'"W-^,1fci*U.>-krf(w. . - (_>a'<:', Composed upo)2 an Evening- of exiraordintuy Splendor and Beanfy, EDIT/ONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 123 Spottiswoode, / Neiv- Street- Square " at the foot of the reverse) pp. i — ii ; Title-page, as above (with blank reverse) pp. iii — iv ; Dedieation (a Sonnet, addressed to Dear Fellow-Travellers, dated '' Rydal liloiint, January, 1822 ") (with blank reverse) pp. v — vi ; Table of Contents pp. vii — viii ; Text of the Memorials pp. I — 67 ; p. 68 is blank ; Fly-title to To Enterprize (with prefatory note upon the reverse) pp. 69 — 70 Text of To Enterprize pp. 71 — 79 ; p. 80 is blank Fly-title to Notes (with blank reverse) pp. 81 — 82 Text of the Notes pp. 83 — 91 ; p. 92 is blank ; Fly- title to Desultory Sta/isas (with blank reverse) pp. 93 — 94 ; Text of the Stanzas pp. 95 — 100 ; and Notes pp. loi — 103. The reverse of p. 103 is blank. Pp. 2 — 67 have no head-lines, the pages being numbered centrally. From p. 72 onwards each page is headed with the title of the Poem, &c., occupying it. The imprint is repeated at the foot of p. 103. The signatures are A (4 leaves), B to G (6 sheets, each 8 leaves), and H (4 leaves). Issued in January, 1822, in drab paper boards, with white paper back-label, lettered : " Wordsivortlis Memorials / Of a Tour on the Continent." The leaves measure 8^ X 5f inches. The published price was Six Shillings and Sixpence. Contents. PAGE Dedication. YDear Fello^u-Travellers ! think not that the j\Iiise\ • V Sonnets : FiSH-woMEN. On Landing at Calais. ['7/V said, fantastic Ocean doth enfold^ i Bruges. {Bruges I saw attired ivith golden light] ... 2 124 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. PACK Bruges. ^The Spirit of Anfiguily, riis/iriiied'\ .... 3 Akter Visiting the Field of Waterloo. \_A winged Goddess, clothed in vesture 7vrought'\ 4 Scenery between Namur and Liege. \^]V hat lovelier home couid gentle Fancy chnse'\ 5 Aix-la-Chapelle. [ JVas it to disencliant, and to nndo'\ 6 In the Cathedral at Cologne. \^0 for the help of Angels to complete] 7 Author's Voyage down the Rhine (Thirty Years ago). \^The confidence of Youth our only Art'] . ... 8 In a Carriage, upon the Banks of the Rhine. \^Amid this dance of objects sadness steals] 9 Hymn, for the Boatmen, as they Approach the Rapids, under the Castle of Heideliierg. [Jesu ! bless our slender Boat] to Sonnets : Local Recollection on the Heights near Hock- HEiM. \_Abruptly paused the Strife ; the field through- out] 12 The Source of the Danube. '\_iVot (lihe his great compeers) i?idignantly] 13 The Jung-Frau — and the Rhine at Shauffhausen. \^The Virgin Moimtain, ivea7-ing like a Queen] .... 14 Memorial, near the Outlet of the Lake of Thun. \_Around a wild and ivoody hill] 15 Sonnet. On Approaching the STAur>-BACH, Lauter- brunnen. \Tracks let me folloiv far from hnnian- hi/nl] 17 Sonnet. The Fall of the Aar — Handec. [From the fierce aspect of this River throwing] 18 Scene on the Lake of Brientz. [ ]Vhat knoiv 7ve of the Blest above] 19 EDITIONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 125 PAGE Engelberg. \^For gentlest uses, oft-times Nature takes\ . 20 Our Lady of the Snow. [A/eeA Virgin Mother, more henign\ 22 Sonnet. The Town of Schwvt/. \By antique Fancy trimmed — tlio' lowly, bred\ 25 Sonnet. On Hearing the " Ranz des Vaches" on the TOP of THE Pass of St. Gothard. \^I listen — hut no faculty of mine^ 26 The Church of San Salvador, seen from the Lake OF Lugano. \Thou sacred Pile ! zvhose turrets rise\ . 27 Fort Fuentes — at the Head of the Lake of Co.mo. \^Dread hour.' when upheaved by wars sulphurous blast'] 31 The Lfalian Itinerant, and the Swiss Goatherd. Part L \^Nozv that the fareivell tear is dried] .... 33 Part n. \^]Vith nodding plumes, and lightly drest] . . 37 Sonnet. The Last Supper, by Leonardo da Vinci, in the Refectory of the Convent of Maria Della Grazia — Milan. \Tlid searching damps and mofiy an envious fla7v\ 40 The Eclipse of the Sun, 182 i. \High on her specula- tive Totver'^^ 41 The Three Cottage Girls. \_H07v blest the Maid whose heart — yetfree~\ 46 Sonnet. The Column intended by Buonaparte for A Triumphal Edifice in Milan, now Lying by THE Wayside on the Semplon Pass. [Ambition, foUoiving dotvn this far-famed slope] 50 Stanzas, Composed in theSeimplon Pass. [Vallomhrosa ! I longed in thy shadiest tvood] 51 Sonnet. Echo, upon the Gemmi. [ JVhat Beast of Chase hath broken from the cover?] 54 126 . BIBLIOGRAPHY OF IVORDSIVORTII. PAGK Processions. Suggested on a Sabbath Morning in THE Vale of Chainiouny. [7'c^ appease the Gods ; or public thanks to yield] 55 Elegiac Stanzas. S^Lulled by the sound of pastoral bells\ . 60 Sonnet. Sky-Prospect — from the Plain of France. \^Lo ! 171 the burning West, the craggy nape'\ 65 Sonnet. On Being Stranded near the Harbour of Boulogne. [ WJiy cast ye back upon the Gallic shore] 66 Sonnet. After Landing— The Valley of Doyer. NoY. 1820. [JlViere be the noisy followers of the ^a/nc] 67 To Entkr prize. [Keep for the Young the enpassioned sniilc\ 71 Desultory Stanzas upon receiving the Preceding Sheets from the Press. [/? tlien the final page before me spi-ead] 95 There is a copy of the First Edition of Memorials of a Tour on the Continent in the Library of the British Museum. I'he Press-mark is T. 1059. (11.) (20) [Ecclesiastical Skhtches : 1S22] Ecclesiastical / Sketches / By / William Words- worth. / London : / Printed for / Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, / Paternoster- Row. / 1822. Collation: — Demy octavo, pp. x-f-i23; consisting of; Half-title (with imprint "'London: / Printed by A. & R. Spoltisii'oode, j Ahzv- S t rcet- S qii a re " at the foot of the reverse) pp. i — ii ; Title-page, as above EDIT/ONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 127 (with blank reverse) pp. iii — iv ; Preface (styled Advertisement) pp. v — vi ; Table of Contents pp. vii — X ; Text of the Sketches pp. i — 108 (including a Fly-title, with blank reverse, to each of the three Farts into which the 102 Sonnets are divided) ; Fly-title to the Notes (with blank reverse) pp. 109 — no, and Text of the Notes pp. 11 1 — 123. The reverse of p. 123 is blank. The head-line is Ecclesiastical Sketches throughout, upon both sides of the page. The imprint is repeated at the foot of p. 123. The signatures are A (5 leaves), B to H (7 sheets, each 8 leaves), I (a half-sheet of 4 leaves), and K (a quarter-sheet of 2 leaves). Sig. A is made up of a half-sheet, of four leaves, with a single leaf carrying the Half-title attached to it. Issued in paper boards, which in some cases are wholly of drab. Other examples have the boards covered with dark blue-grey paper, backed with drab. All had a white paper back-label, reading vertically " Wordsiuortlis \ Ecclesiastical Sketches." The leaves measure 8^ X 5^ inches. The published price was Six Shillings and Sixpence. In the Poetical Works oi 1S37 the title Ecclesiastical Sketches was changed to Ecclesiastical Sonnets. Contents. I'AGE Ecclesiastical Sketches : Part I : — I. Introduction. [/, who descended with glad step to chase^ 3 II. Conjectures. \^If there be Prophets on ivhose spirits rcst'\ 4 III. Trepidation of the Druids. \_Screams round the Arch druid's broiv the Seanieiv —white\ . 5 I2S BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTII. I' Ann IV. Druidical ExcoisiMUNiCA'iiON, li'C. \Mercy and Love have met thee o/i thy roaif] .... 6 V. Uncertainty. [Darh^iess surrou/iLs us ; seek- ing^ ive are Iost\ 7 VI. Persecution. 'yLament ! jor Dioclesiajis fiery sivord\ 8 VII. Recovery. ^As, 7vhen a storm hath ceased, the birds regaiii\ 9 VIII. Temptations from Roman Refinements. \^]Vatch, and be firm ! for soiib-subduing vice] 10 IX. Dissensions. [That heresies should strike {if truth be scanned^^ 11 X. Struggle of the Britons Against the Barbarians. [Rise ! tliey have risen : of brave Aneurin ask'\ 12 XL Saxon Conquest. [Nor wants the cause the panic-striking aid^^ . . 13 XII. Monastery of Old Bangor. [The oppression of the tumult — wrath and scorn — ] .... 14 XIII. Casual Incitement. [A bright-haired com- pany of ycmtliful Slaves\ 15 XIV. Glad Tidings. [For ever hai/oivcd be this morning fair'\ 16 XV. Paulinus. [But, to remote Northumbrid's royal ILall\ 17 XVI. Persuasion. [Man s life is like a Sparrow, mighty King .'] j S XVII. Conversion. [Prompt transformation works the novel lore^ 19 XVIII. Apology. [Nor scorn the aid 7vhich Fancy oft doth lend\ 20 XIX. Primitive Saxon Clergy. [LLow beautiful your presence, Junv benign^ 21 EDIT/ONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 129 PA(,E XX. Other Influences, [Ah, when the Frame, rozmd which in love we dung\ 22 XXI. Seclusion. [I.ance, shield, a7id s7vord relin- quished — at his side'] 23 XXII. Continued. [Methinks that to some vacant Hermitage] 24 XXIII. Reproof. \But what if One, thro' grove or flowery mead] 25 XXIV. Saxon Monasteries, and Lights and Shades of the Religion. [By si/ch ex- amples 7noved to iinhonght pains] 26 XXV. Missions and Travels. [Not sedenta/y all : there are icho roam] 27 XXVI. Alfred. [Behold a Pupil of the Monkish gown] 28 XXVII. His Descendants. [Can aught survive to linger in the veins] 29 XXVIII. Influence Abused. [Urged by Amhition, 7i'ho ivith subtlest ski If] 30 XXIX. Danish Conquests. []]'oe to the Croicn that doth the Coivl obey !] 31 XXX. Canute. [A pleasant music floats along the Mere] 32 XXXI. The Norman Conquest. [The ivoman- hfarted Confessor prepares] t,t, XXXII. The Council of Clermont. [" And shall," the Pontiff asks, ^^ profancness flow''] ... 34 XXXIII. Crusades. [The Turbaifd Race are poured in thickening swarms] 35 XXXIV. Richard I. [Redoubted King, of courage leonine] 36 XXXV. An iNTERDicT. [Realms quake by turns : proud Arln tress of grace] 37 K i-,o BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDS WORTH PACK XXXVI. Papal Abuses. \As 7vith tJie stream our voyage we pursue] 38 XXXVII. Scene in Venice. \Black Demons hovering oer his mitred head] 39 XXXVIII. Papal Dominion. [^Uniess to Peters Chair the vieivless zvitid] 40 Part II: I. CiSTERTiAN Monastery. S^Here Man more purely lives, less oft doth fall] 43 II. Monks, and Schoolmen. \^Record we too,with just and faithful pen] 44 III. Other Benefits. [^Aud not in vain em/>odied to the sight] 45 IV. Continued. [And ivhat melodious sounds at times prevail I] 46 V. Crusaders. \_Nor can Imagination quit the sho7-es] 47 VI. Transup.stantiation. [^Enough I for see, zvilh dim association] 48 VII. Waldenses. [These who gave earliest notice, as the La?-k] 49 VIII. Archbishop Chicheley to Henry V. [What Beast in ivilderness or cultured field] .... 50 IX. Wars of York and Lancaster. [Thus is the storm abated by the craft] 51 X. WiCLiFFE. [Once more the Church is seized with sudden fear] 52 XI. Corruptions of the Higher Clergy. [l]\>c to you. Prelates I rioting i}i ease] '^^ XII. Abuse of Monastic Power. [And what is Penance with her knotted thong] 54 XIII. Monastic Voluptuousness. [Yet more, — round many a Convent's blazing fire] 55 EDIT/ONES PR /JVC /PES, ETC. 131 PAGE XI\\ Dissolution of the Monasteries. [T/treats come ivhich no submission may assuage] ... 56 XV. The same Subject. \The lovely Nun {submis- sive but more meek] 57 XVI. Continued. \^yetsome, Noviciates of the cloistral shade] 58 XVII. Saints. y\\\ too, must fly before a chasing hand] 59 XVIII. The Virgin. [Mother/ whose virgin bosom ivas uncrost] 60 XIX. Apology. \Not utterly ujiivorthy to eiidure] . . 61 XX. Imaginative Regrets. \Deep is the lamenta- tion! Not alone] 62 XXL Reflections. [Grant, that by this unsparing Hurricane] 63 XXII. Translation of the Bible. [But, to out^veigh all harm, the sacred Book] 64 XXIII. Edward VI. ['^ Sraeet is the holiness of Youth" —sofelt] 65 XXIV. Edward signing the Warrant for the Execution of Joan of Kent. [The tears of man in various measure gusli] 66 XXV. Cranmer. [Outstretching fiaine-tvard his up- braidijig hand] 67 XXVI. General View of the Troubles of the Reformation. [Aid, glorious Martyrs, from your fields of light] 68 XXVII. English Reformers in Exile. [Scattering, like Birds escaped the Foivler's net] 69 XXVIII. Elizabeih. [Hail, Virgin Queen f o'er many an envious bar] 70 XXIX. Eminent Reformers. [Methinks that I could trip der heaviest soil] 71 XXX. The Same. [Ploly and heavenly Spirits as they ivere"] 72 K 2 132 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. PAGE XXXI. Distractions. \Men, who have ceased to reverence, soon defy'\ 73 XXXII. Gunpowder Plot. \_Fear hath a hundred eyes that all agree^ 74 XXXIII. Illustration. \The Virgin Moiniiain, 7vearing like a Queen] 75 XXXIV. Trouijles of Charles the First. [S//ch contrast, in whatever track we move] .... 76 XXXV. Laud. \^Piirsued by Hate, debarred from friendly ^'''■''] 77 XXXVI. Afflictions of England. [Harp! couldst thou venture, on thy boldest string] 78 Part III : I. \I saw the figure of a lovely Maid] 81 II. Patriotic Sympathies. \_Last night,ivithout a voice, this Vision spake] 82 III. Charles the Second. [ Who comes with rapture greeted, and caress' d] 83 IV. Latitudinarianism. \Y€t Truth is keenly sought for, and the wind] 84 V. Walton's Book of "Lives." \There are ?io colours in the fairest sky] 85 VI. Clerical Integrity. \_A^or shall the eternal roll of praise reject] 86 VII. Acquittal of the Bishops. \_A voice, from long-expectant thousands sent] 87 VIII. William the Third. [^Calm as an under- current — strong to drauf] 88 IX. Obligations of Civil to Religious Liberty. \Ungrateful Country, if thou e'er forget^ ... 89 X. Places of Worship. \_As star that shines dependant upon star] go EDiriONES PR /NCI PES, ETC. 133 I' AGE XI. Pastoral Character. \^A gefiial hearth, a hos- pitable boa7-d\ 91 XII. The Liturgy. [ Yes, if the intensities of hope and fear] 92 XIII. Catechizing. \^Froin little doivn to least — /;/ due degree] 93 XIV. Rural Ceremony. [ JVith smiles each happy face ivas overspread] 94 XV. Regrets. [ Would that our scrupulous Sires had dared to leave] 95 XVI. Mutability. \^From loiv to high doth dissolution climb] : . . . . 96 XVII. Old Ap.ijies. [Monastic Domes! follo7ving my doivnward way] 97 XVIII. Congratul.\tion. [Thus all things lead to Charity — secured] 98 XIX. Nenv Churches. [But liberty, and triunphs on the Main] 99 XX. Church to be Erected. [Be this the chosen site — the virgin sod\ 100 XXI. Continued. [Mine ear has rung, my spirit sunk subdued] 10 1 XXII. New Church-yard. [The encircling ground, in native turf array' d] 102 XXIII. Cathedrals, Sic. [Open your Gates ye everlast- ing Files /] 1 03 XXIV. Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge. [Tax not the royal Saint 7vith vain expence] . 104 XXV. The Same. [What awful perspective .' ivliile from our ^4''///] ... 105 XXVI. Continued. [They dreamt not of a perishable home] 106 134 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. PAGE XXVII. Ejaculation. \^GIory to God ! and to the Poiver wlio ca!ue\ 107 XXVIII. Conclusion'. [ Why sleeps the future, as a snake enrolled^ 108 Sonnet. [ IVhe/r holy ground begins — ini hallowed ends] 121 There is a copy of the First Edition of Ecclesiastical Sketches in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is T. 1059. (8.) (21) [A Description of the Scenery of the Lakes : 1822] A / Description / of the / Scenery of the Lakes / in / The North of England. / Third Echtion, / (Now first pubHshed 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. / 1S22. Collation : — Duodecimo, pp. iv + 156 ; consisting of : Title- page, as above (with imprint " London: / Printed by A. & R. Spoil iszuoadc, j New- Street- Square'' at the foot of the reverse) pp. i — ii ; Table of Contents pp. iii — -iv ; and Text of the Description pp. I — 156. There are head-lines throughout, each page being headed with the title of the subject-matter occupy- ing it. The imprint is repeated at the foot of p. 156. The signatures are A (two leaves), B to G (six sheets, each 12 leaves), and H (a half-sheet of EDIT! ONES PRfNC/PES, ETC. 135 6 leaves). The book was issued without any half- title. Issued in dark green paper wrappers, stiffened with a lining of white paper, with the title-page (enclosed within a rectangular ruled frame, with small corner ornaments) reproduced upon the front. Also lettered up the back " IV ordszvor til's j Description of the Lakes." The leaves, which were trimmed, measure 6^ x 4 inches. The published price was Five Shillings and Sixpence. A folding Map of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire serves as Frontispiece. Although the title-page to the volume carries the words Third Edition, this was the First Appearance of the work as a separate volume. This Descriptiott (but in an abbreviated form) originally served as an Introduction to Select Views / in / Cnnil>eriand, / Westmore- land, I and Lancashire. / By the Rev. Joseph Wilkinson, j Rector of East and West Wretha7n, in the County of Noifolk, / and Chaplain to / The A/an/ia's of Hiintly. j London .■ / Ruidished for the Rev. Joseph IViikinson, iy R. Ac/wrniann, at his j Repository of Arts, I o I , Strand. / 1 8 1 o. The book was issued in twelve Numbers, Imperial Folio size, with forty-eight Plates. The twelve Numbers were subsequently formed into a single volume, and issued in drab paper boards. Wordsworth's Introduction occupies pp. i — xxxiv. The Description next appeared (with emendations and additions) in The River Duddon, A Series of Sonnets, &:c., 1820, j^p. 213 — 321, under the title Topographical Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England. 13^1 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. Then came the present so-called Third Edition of 1822, actually the First Edition in separate volume form. To this edition a considerable amount of fresh matter was added, notably some Illustrative Remarks 7ipou The Scenery of the Alps, an account of Excursions to the top of Sca^vfell, &c., and Directions and Information for the Tourist. In this edition also (p. 42) the Sonnet " A ^aeii^ht of aive not easy to he home " made its first appearance in print. Neither it, nor the lengthy prose Note of which it forms the conclusion, had found a place in The River Dud Jon volume of 1820. In 1827 the Sonnet was gathered into the Poetical Works of that date, Vol. ii, p. 327, where, under the title " The Monument C(>mmonly called Long JLeg and her Daughters, near the river Eden,'" it served as Sonnet xxiii. In the following year, 1823, the book passed into a so- called Fourth Edition, the collation of which is Duodecimo, pp. iv-t-144. This was by no means a precise reprint of the immediately preceding edition of 1822. Its text was both revised and enlarged. The most notable addition was a passage of twenty-seven lines, commencing : }\Iark lunv the feathered tenants of the flood, ]lith graee of 7110 1 ion that might scarcely seem taken from the then-unpublished First Part of the First Book of The Recluse. These lines, sparingly revised, will be found in the published volume of 18S8 S^post, No. 34], pp. 14 — 16, where they commence : Behold how zvith a grace Of ceaseless motion, that might scarcely seem The original lines were included, as a separate and distinct poem, under the title Water-Foivl, in The L^oetical Works of IVilliain Words-iCorth, 1827, Vol. ii, pp. 51 — 52. EDIT/ONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 137 In 1835 the book was expanded and added to, and became virtually a new work, although evidently not so regarded by its author, as the numeration of the title-page succeeds that of the previous edition of 1823. This title-page reads as follows :— A I Guide / through the j District of the Lakes j in j The North of England, / ivith j A Description of the Scenery, &=€. j For the use of I Tourists and Residents. / Fifth Edition, j with considerabic additions. / By William Wordstvorth. / Kendal : / Published by Hudson and Nicholson, / and in Londofi by / Longman &• Co., J/oson, and Whittaker 6^ Co. / 1835. Collation: — Foolscap octavo, pp. iv + xxiv-i- 139. In this edition Wordsworth's text received its final revision. In 1906 this edition was reprinted verbatim in the following volume : Wordsworth's / Guide to t/ie Lakes j Fifth Edition (1835) / With an Lntroduction, Appendices, and Notes / Textual and Lllustrative / By I Ernest de Selincourt j With a Map and Eight Illustrations j London j Henry Frowde / 1906. Collation : — Crown octavo, pp. xxxii -h 203. In 1842 Wordsworth'?, Description of the Scenery of the Lakes lost its individuality as a separate work, and became merged into a larger book the material for which was provided by his own and other hands. This volume bears the following title-page : — A I Complete / Guide to the Lakes, j cofuprising / Minute Direc- tions for the Tourist, j luith Mr. Wordsworth's j Description of the Scenery of the Country, &--c. j and j Three Letters j upott the I Geology of the Lake District, / By the Rev. Professor Sed^'wick. j Edited by the Publishers. / Kendal : j Published by Hudson and I3S BIBLTOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. Nicholson, j London : / Longman and Co., and Whit taker &= Co. / Liverpool: Webb., Castle St. — Manchester : Si nuns and Co. j 1842. Collation : — Large duodecimo, printed in half-sheets, pp. viii -I- viii+ i34 + ii + 82 + 55. In 1843 a Second Edition was published. The contents of the volume were slightly altered and added to, but Wordsworth's contribution remained unchanged. The title-page reads '''' Second Edition. Edited by the Fii'disher,^' i.e. J- Hudson, whose name stands henceforth alone in the imprint in place of Hudson and Nicholson. Collation: — Duodecimo, pp. x-f vii -1- 259, misprinted 159. In 1846 a Third Edition appeared. To this edition Professor Sedgwick added a fresh Letter upon the Geology of the Lake District, and the title-page accordingly reads ^' And Four Letters" etc., with Third Edition in place of Second. Collation : — Duodecimo, x-i-vi + 245. In 1853 came the Fourth Edition, with that number noted upon its title. Yet another new Letter was furnished by Professor Sedgwick, and the title-page accordingly reads '• And Five Letters on the Geology of the Lake District." Collation : — Duodecimo, pp. xii -i- viii -t- 2 70. The year 1859 saw the publication of the Fifth, and last numbered, edition of A Complete Guide to the Lakes. Added to it at the end is a single leaf carrying Addenda and Errata, and the number of the edition is noted upon the title-page, otherwise the edition is an absolute reprint of its immediate predecessor of 1853- Further editions were published subsequent to 1853. Most of EDIT/ONES PRINCIPES, ETC. ' 139 these were undated, and all were worked from the stereo plates of 1859, which represents the final state of the book both 'as regards text and contents. No change whatever was made to Wordsworth's portion of the text throughout the whole five editions of 1842 — 1859. All these five editions were illustrated by maps, diagrams, and engravings. Each was furnished with an engraved Frontis- piece, but this Frontispiece is not identical in all five editions. The fifth edition, 1835, of A Guide throii^^h the District of tlic Lakes in the NortJi of England was reprinted in The Prose Works of Williavi Wordsivorth, Edited by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart, 1876, Vol. ii, pp. 217 — 319. Again reprinted in The Poetical Works of ]]llliam Wordsworth, Edited by William Knight, Vol. viii, 1S86, pp. 181 — 297. The Guide was also included in Prose JJ'orks of ]Villiani Wordswo7'th, Edited by William Knight, 1896, Vol. ii, pp. i — 121. There is a copy of A Description of t/ie Scenery of the 'Lakes, 1822, in the Library of the Britisli Museum. The Press-mark is 579- 'i. 5- (22) [Ode to the Memory of Charles Lamj; : 1835] Ode to the Memory of Charles Lamb. \_To ike dear inciiiory of a frail good Maii?\ Collation : — Crown octavo, pp. 7. There is no title-page whatever, the text of the Ode commencing- a third the way clown the first page, the upper portion of the page remaining blank, and concludes on p. 7. It is followed by the printed signature W. Words- wortli. There is no head-line, the pages being numbered centrally in Arabic numerals. No I40 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. imprint of either publisher or printer is to be found in the book, but it is apparent from Wordsworth's letter to Spalding, quoted below, that Edward Moxon was responsible for producing it. The reverse of p. 7 is blank. There are no signatures, the pamphlet consisting of a single half-sheet of thick paper, folded to form 8 pages. The book was issued without any half-title. Issued in plain paper wrappers of an extremely pale lavender-coloured tint, without either lettering or label. The leaves measure SyVx S\ inches. Before being stitched in the wrappers the four leaves carrying the letterpress were inset between two leaves of thinner white paper, which form end-papers to the pamphlet. In its original privately printed form this Ode^ or Monody, to the Memory of Charles I.anib is an item of very considerable rarity. The number of copies struck off is not recorded. There cannot, however, have been many, for I doubt if more than half a dozen examples could be pointed to to-day. Upon each of its infrequent appearances in the Auction room the pamphlet has brought an increasingly high price. The last copy to occur was that belonging to the late Professor Edward Dowden : this was sold on December i^f/i, 1913, and realised the sum of ^49. Lamb died on Deceinber 27//^, 1834, in the sixtieth year of his age, but it was not until November, 1835, that Wordsworth composed his Ode. This was first included in the 1837 edition of Wordsworth's Poems. " The Mo7iody upon C. Lamb 7vas given to my friend Serjeant Talfoiird, Lamb's Ex''-, to be piddished along with his Life, Letters, etc. Moxon, with my permission, struck ojf a fciv copies for private circulation, one of 7vhich for yourself and another for Mr. Taylor, EDIT/ONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 141 if he wishes Jor it, it would give me great pleasure you should have:'—\Yxom a letter from Wordsworth to James Spalding, undated, but headed " Rydal Moufit, 28th AprilJ'^ There is at present no copy of Ode to the Memory of Charles Lamb, 1835, in the Library of the British Museum. (23) [Yarrow Revisited: 1835] Yarrow Revisited, / And / Other Poems. / By / William Wordsworth. / ''Poets .... divcll on earth / To clothe whateer the soul admires and loves I With language and with numbers.'' / Aken- side. / London : / Printed for / Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, / Paternoster- Row ; and / Edward Moxon, Dover Street. / 1835. Collation :— Duodecimo, pp. xvi + 349 : consisting of: Half-title (with \m^nnt'' London : I Printed by A. Spottiswoodc, I New-Street-Square" upon the foot of the reverse) pp. i— ii ; Title-page, as above (with blank reverse) pp. iii— iv ; Dedication " To Samuel Rogers," &c. (with blank reverse) pp. v— vi ; Pre- fatory Note, styled Advertisement (with blank reverse) pp. vii — viii ; Table of Contents pp. ix — xv ; List of Errata and Emendations p. xvi ; Fly-title to Yarrozv Revisited, and other Poems (with blank reverse) pp. 1—2 ; Text of the Poems pp. 3—183 ; p. 184 is blank ; Fly-title to Sonnets Composed or Sug- gested during a Tour in Scotland in tlie Summer of 142 lURLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. 1833 (with note upon reverse) pp. 1S5 — 186 ; Text of the Sonnets pp. 187 — 231; Notes pp. 232 — 236; Text of additional Poems pp. 237 — ^308 ; Fly-title to Stanzas on the Poiver of Sound (with the Argnnient upon the reverse) pp. 309 — 310; Text of the Stanzas pp. 311 — 322, and Postscript pp. 323 — 349. There are head-lines throughout, each page being headed with the title of the Poem, or other portion of the text, occupying it» The imprint is repeated upon the centre of the reverse of the last page. The signatures are A (6 leaves), a (2 leaves), B to P (14 sheets, each 12 leaves), and O (7 leaves). Following p. xvi is an inserted slip, carrying an additional Erratnvi. Issued in drab cloth boards, backed with cloth, with white paper back-label, lettered " WordszvortJis j Yarrow j Re- visited, j and j Other PoenisT The leaves measure 6| X 3^ inches. The published price was Nine Shillings. I-^ifteen hundred copies were printed. A Second Edition appeared in the following year, 1836. Contents. i'A(;e Yarrow Revisited. \The gallant Youth, who may have gained] 3 SONNEIS : Sonnet I. On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott FROM Abbotsford, FOR NAPLES. \_A trouble, not of clouds, or weeping rain] g Previously piinted in T/w Lite>\iry Souvenir, 1833, p. i. Sonnet II. A Place of Burial in the South of Scotland. [Part fenced by man, part bv a ragged steep] JO EDITIONES P RING I PES, ETC. 143 I'AGE Sonnet III. On the Sight of a Manse in the South of Scotland. \Say, ye far-travelled clouds, far-seeing hills^ 1 1 Sonnet IV. Composed in Roslin Chapel, during a Storm. \The wind is nmv thy organist ; — a clank] . 12 Sonnet V. The Trosachs. \^There's not a nook within this solemn Pass\ 13 Sonnet VI. \The Pihroclis note, discountenanced or mute'] '4 Sonnet VII. Composed in the Glen of Loch Etive. [^This Land of Rainbows, spanning glens whose ivalls] . 15 Sonnet VIII. Eagles. \_Dishonoured Rock and Ruin ! that, by hnt^ 16 Sonnet IX. In the Sound of Mull. {Tradition, be thou mute I Oblivion, throic] 1 7 Sonnet X. At Tyndrum. [Enough of garlands, of the Arcadian crook] 18 Sonnet XI. The Earl of Breadalbane's Ruined Mansion, and Family Burial-Place, near Killin. [ ]]"ell sang the Bard who called the Grave, in strains'] . 19 Sonnet XII. Rest and he Thankful, at the Head OF Glencroe. \_Doubling and doubling 7vith laborious -walk] ^o Sonnet XIII. Highland Hut. [See what gay wild flowers deck this earth-built Cot] 21 Sonnet XIV. The Brownie. \_'' How disappeared he?" Ask the newt and toad] 22 Sonnet XV. To the Planet Venus, an Evening Star. \Though joy attend thee orient at the birtli\ . . 23 Sonnet XVI. Bothwell Castle. [Immured in BothwelFs Totvers, at times the Brave'] 24 Sonnet XVII. Picture of Daniel in the Lion's Den, at Hamilton Palace. [Amid a fertile region gi-ecn with ivood] 25 144 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. I'ACK Sonnet XVIII. The Avon. [/h'o/i — a precious, an immortal name 1^ 26 Sonnet XIX. Suggested by a View from an Eminence in Inglewood Forest. [T/ie forest /iiio-e of ancient Caiedon^ 27 Sonnet XX. Hart's-horn Tree, near Penrith. [^Here stood an Oak, that h?ig had borne affixed] ... 28 Sonnet XXI. Countess's Pillar. [ White the Poor gather round, till the cfid of time] 29 Sonnet XXII. Roman Antiquities. ^Hoiv profitless the relics that we cull] 30 Apology. \No more : the end is sudden and abrupt] ... 31 The Highland Broach. \If to Tradition faith be due] . ^^ The Egyptian Maid : or, the Romance of the Water Lily. [ JVhile Merlin paced the Cornish sands] ... 47 Ode, Composed on May Morning. [While from the purpling east departs] 69 To May. [Though many suns have rise/i and set] .... 73 Inscription. [The massy Ways, carried across these Heights] 78 Elegiac Musings. [ IVith copious eulogy in prose and rhyme] 80 Epitaph. [By a blest Husband guided, Mary came] . . . 83 Inscription intended for a Stone in the Grounds OF Rydal Mount. [In these fair Vales hath many a Tree] 85 Written in an Album. [Small service is true service while it lasts] 85 Incident at Bruges. [/// Bruges to7vn is many a street] 86 A Jewish Family. [Genius of Raphael ! if thy ivings] . 89 Devotional Incitements. [ Where 7vill they stop, those breathing Poivers] 92 The Armenian Lady's Love. [ You have heard " a Spanish Lady] 96 i^'^r Yf-^pu^M^^ \/.A>i%^ /^v ^^i^^ /^';JW-- OA^^^f'i^''^ f^^^ A^^k^ /i/^^^^ j/ejc^^ ^^^,/'>v/: Facsimile of a page of MS. inserted in a copy of Yarrow Revisited revised for a new edition. EDITIONES I'RINCIPES, ETC. 14} rAOK The Primrose of the Rock. \A Rock tJicrc is whose Iioviely front\ 106 Presentiments. [Presefiti/nen/s f f/iey Judge iiof ?-ig/if^ . no The Poet and the Caged Turtledove. [As often as I mi/r/nuj- here\ i j 5 Sonnets : I . [ CliatsworlJi ! thy stately mansion, and the pride\ . 117 II. [Desponding Father ! mark this altered bough\ . . \ iS III. Roman Antiquities discovered, at Bishop- stone, Herefordshire. [IfVii/e poring Anti- qtiarians search the groundA^ 119 IV. St. Catherine of Ledburv. [When human touch, as monkisJi books attest^ 120 The Russian Fugitive : Part I. [E7ioi(!:^h of rose-hi/d Zips, a7id eyes^ .... 123 Part II. [The Divelling of this faithfiti pair^ .... 128 Part III. [^Tis sung in ancient niinstrels}'\ 133 Part IV. [The ever-changing Moon had traced\ ... 138 Sonnets : I. [Why a7-t thou silent'] Is thy love a plant] ... 145 II. [Four fiery steeds impatient of the rei)i\ 146 III. To the Author's Portrait. [Go, faithful Portrait ! and inhere long hath knclt^ .... 147 Gold and Silver Fishes in a Vase, [jyie soaring Lark is blest as proud\ 148 A reduced facsimile of a Manuscript of the first two stanzas of this Poem, inserted in a corrected copy of Yarrozv Revisited, faces the present page. LiriERTV. [Those breathing Tokens of your kind regard] . 15 r Evening Voluntaries : I. [Calm is the fragrant air, and loth to lose] ... 161 II. [Not in the lucid intervals of life] 163 III. By the Side of Rvdal Mere. The Linnet's warbky^sinking toivards a close 165 L 2 148 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. PACK IV. \Soft as a cloud is yon blue Ridge — ihe Mere] . . 167 V. [T/ie leaves that rustled on this oak-croivned hill\ 169 VI. [The Sun, that seemed so mildly io retire] ... 171 VII. By the Sea-side. [The Sun is couched, the sea- fowl gone to rest] 173 VIII. [The sun has long been set] 175 IX. [Throned in the Stifi's descending car] 177 This poem, as Wordsworth afterwards confessed, was not original. It was formed from "a fine stanza of Akenside, connected with a still finer from Beattie by a couplet from Thomson." The Labourer's Noon-day Hvmn. [Up to the throne of God is borne] 178 A Wren's Nest. [Among the divellings framed by birds] . 180 Sonnets Composed or Suggested during a Tour in Scotland, in the Summer of 1833 : Sonnet I. [Adieu, Rydalian Laurels! that have gro7Vfi] 1S7 Sonnet II. [U'hy should the Enthusiast, journeying through this Isle] 1S8 Sonnet III. [They called Thee merry England, in old tiine^ 189 Sonnet IV. To the River Greta, near Keswick. [Greta, 2i>hat fearful listening .' when huge stones] . . 190 Sonnet V. To the River Derwent. [Among the mountains were we nursed, loved stream .'] 191 Sonnet VI. In Sight of the Town of Cocker- mouth. [A point of life betiveen my Parents^ dust] . . 192 Sonnet VII. Address from the Spirit of Cocker- mouth Castle. [Thou look'st upon me, and dost fondly think] 193 Sonnet VIII. Nun's Well, Brigham. [The cattle cro-ivding round this beverage clear] 1 94 Sonnet IX. To a Friend. [Pastor and Patriot .' at whose bidding rise] 195 ED IT/ ONES PREYCIPES, ETC. 149 Sonnet X. Mary Queen of Scots. [^Dear to the Loves, and to the Graces vozved^ 196 Sonnet XI. In the Channel, between the Coast OF Cumberland and the Isle of Man. [Ranging the Heights of Scatvfell or Black-coon f\ 197 Sonnet XII. At Sea off the Isle of Man. S^Bold 7i'ords affirmed, in days ivhen faith ivas strong\ . . . 198 Sonnet XIII. \^Desire ive past illusions to recall lA^ . . 199 Sonnet XIV. On entering Douglas Bay, Isle of Man. [The feudal Keep, the bastions of Cohorn\ . . 200 Sonnet XV. By the Sea-shore, Isle of Man. [Why stand 7(.y Haydon [" By Art's bold privilege Warrior and Wardtorse stand "'\ is usually regarded as having first appeared in this volume, p. 221. But on October 2nd, 1841, Wordsworth wrote to Edward Moxon : " To gratify Haydon, I wrote lately a sonnet on his picture of Wellington, etc., and placed it at his disposal, either to publish, when and where he liked, or to circulate in MS. It was published accordingly, but witli so many gross typographical blunders, that I am resolved nothing of mine shall make its first appearance in that way again." In what stray newspaper Haydon caused the Sonnet to be published I have not been able to discover. The most important feature of Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years is that in its pages the tragedy of The Borderers, written so far back as 1795-6, appeared for the first time. There is a copy of Poems of Early and Late Years in the Library of the British Museum. The Fress-mark is 11611. b. 17. 156 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. (26) [The Loss of St. Mary's Church : 1842] Poems / on the / Loss and Re-Building / of / St. Mary's Church, Cardiff. / By / WilHam Words- worth. / James Montgomery. / Thomas William Booker. / John Dix. / Cardiff: W. Bird. / 1842. Collation : — Foolscap octavo, pp. 24. Contents by Wurdsivorth. PACK Sonnet. \^\Vhen Sevet-n^s siveeping Flood had overthnmnp^ . 5 The Sonnet is dated " Rydal Moun', Jan. 23, 1S42." A prefatory note states that : '■'• The folloiving Poe7HS tvere wj'itten by their respective Authors for the purpose of adding something to the Fund for rebuilding the New Church of St. Afary, in Cardiff^. But a limited number ice re struck off, and numerous applications having l>een made for them, they are now printed for the first time in a collected form.'" The inference to be drawn from this Note is that each of the poems was in the first instance printed in separate form. We have therefore still to look for a (probably) single leaflet carrying Wordsworth's Sonnet alone. There is a copy of Poems on the Loss and Re-Building of St. J/ary's Church in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is 11645. de. 22. The Museum also possesses [Press-mark 1865. c. 8. (66.)] a single large-quarto leaf, with blank reverse, carrying upon its recto a facsimile of the original manuscript of Wordsworth's Sonnet. The leaf is pasted down upon one of the pages of a large /Vlbum filled with similar ephemera, and therefore the paper cannot be /^,/. ?>'«J< *;-^ a-.--/"* ' ^"^ * .' / ^/i/ -». :- '^^^ ■'- - ^^ ' i^ /-^- ^ Xuttiii-^, lilies 47 — 56. EDITIONES PRINCIPE S, ETC. 159 sufficiently examined, but the Museum Catalogue suggests that the date of its production may be 1898. I am inclined to regard it as considerably earlier. (27) [Grace Darling : 1843] Grace Darling. Collation : — Foolscap, pp. 4. The brochure is composed of a single quarter-sheet of paper folded in two, forming four octavo pages. There is no title-page proper, but upon the upper portion of the first page is a ' dropped-head ' Grace Darling in large capitals. The three remaining pages are numbered 2 — 4 in Arabic numerals, and are headed Grace Darling in small capitals. At the foot of the last page is the follow- ing imprint : " Carlisle : Printed at the Office of Charles Thurtiain." Above the imprint are the words " Not Published, " in italics, within square brackets. The pamphlet is undated. A ^qw copies only were privately printed in March, 1S43. Issued without wrappers. The leaves measure 6^ x 4 inches. Contents. PAGE Grace Darling. \Aniong the dwellers in the silent fie hi s'\ . i The original privately-printed edition of Grace Darlivi^ ranks among the leading ^^'ords\vorth rarities. It is doubtful whether so many as half a dozen examples could be identified to-day. i6o lUBIJOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. Professor Dowden's copy, sold in Messrs. Hodgson's Sale-rooms on December 17th, 191 3, realised ^21. There can be no doubt that each example of Grace Darlifig distributed by Wordsworth was given by him personally as a friendly gift. Every surviving copy I have inspected is signed in full in the poet's autograph at the foot of the last page. '■'■ / sefid yon . . . . iJie last poem from my pen. I threw it off two or three weeks ago., being in a great tneasitre itnpelled to it by the desire I felt to do justice to tJie memory of a heroine., whose conduct presented some time ago a strilcing contrast to the inhumanity with whicJi our countrymen sJiipwrecked lately upon the French coast have been treated. . . . . I must request that ' Grace Darling ' may not be reprinted." — [Wordswortli's Letter to Henry Reed, March 2-jth, 1843.] There is at present no copy of Grace Darling in the Library of the British Museum. (28) [Verses Composed at the Request of Jane Wallis Penfold : 1844] Verses / Composed at the Request of Jane Wallis Penfold, / By William Wordsworth, Esq. / Poet Laureate. Collation : — Large quarto, pp. 4. The brochure is composed of a single half-sheet of paper folded in two, forming four quarto pages, the whole of which are occupied by letterpress. There is no Title-page proper, the title, as above, being imposed upon the upper part of p. i, after the manner of a ' dropped-head.' EDITTONES PRINCIPES, ETC. T6r Wordsworth's poem occupies pp. i — -2, is signed (in facsimile) Williain Wordsivorth, and is dated " Rydal iMojuif, 1st Jainiar)\ 1 843." The two remaining pages carry a second poem entitled Song of the / Flozvers, / Composed at the request of Jane Wallis P enfold, / By Mrs. Calverley Bezvicke." The pages are unnumbered, and there is no printer's imprint. Issued without wrappers. The leaves measure 12J, X9J;} inches. Contents l^y Wordsworth. I'AGK Verses Composed at the Request of J.\ne Wallis Penfold. ypair Lady ! can I sing of flowers\ . . i Of this handsome privately-printed brochure only a single example is at present known to exist. This was uneardied some three years ago, and is now in my possession. Apart from its bibliographical interest, the discovery was of some slight bio graphical importance, as the Poem has always been assigned to the year 1845, whilst the date appended to it in the present private print shews that it was composed upon the first day of 1843- The Verses were first reprinted in The Poems of JVd/iani Wordsworth, 1845, P- ^^S' under the amended title To a Lady in anstver to a request thai L ivould write her a poem upon some drau'ings that s/ie had made of flotvers in the Lsland of Madeira. The brochure furnishes one addition to the many variants in the text of Wordsworth's Poems. In stanza 5, line 6, it reads : Slie says, in words, by faint sighs broken, whereas the published version of the line runs : She says, in faint zvords by sighs broken. 1 62 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. (29) [Kendal and Windermere Railway : 1845] Kendal and Windermere / Railway. / Two Letters / Re-printed from The Morning Post. / Revised, with Additions. / Kendal : / Printed by R. Branthwaite and Son. The Pamplilel. is undated. It was issued in 1S45. Collation: — Foolscap octavo, pp. 23 ; consisting of: Title- )3age, as above (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Sonnet on tJie projected Kendal and Windermere Railway (with blank reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; Text of Letter /pp. 5 — 14 ; and Text of Letter II pp. 15 — 23. The reverse of p. 23 is blank. There are no head-lines, the pages being numbered centrally in Arabic numerals. At the foot of p. 23 is the following imprint: "'Kendal: / Printed by R. Brantlnvaite and Son." There are no signatures. The pamphlet was issued without any half title. Issued stitched, and withotit wrappers. The leaves measure 6J x 4 inches. The So?i/u't on the projected Kendal and JVindernierc Railway [''Is then no nook of En^^lish ground secure'"] is dated " Rydal Mount, October 12///, 1S44." It had already appeared in IVie Mor?iing Post, Wednesday, October \6tli, 1S44, p. 3, where it was accompanied by the following letter : Let not the above he considered as merely a poetical ejli/sion. The degree a7id kind of attachment which inany of the yeomaitry feet to their smalt inheritances can scarcely be overrated. Near the house of EDI Tl ONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 163 one of them staitds a inagnificeiit irce^ 7uJiich a neighbour of the owner advised him to fell for profit' s sake. " Fell it, " exclaimed the yeoman, " / had rather fall on my knees and worship it." It happens, I believe, that the intettded railway will pass through this little property, and I hope that an apology for the answer 7vill not be thoiiglit necessary by anyone who enters into the strength of the feeling. W. W. The first Letter is dated '"'' Rydal Mou?if, Dec. 9, 1S44." It appeared in The Morni fig Post, Wednesday December 11///, 1844, pp. 2 — 3, when it was signed " Wm. Jl'ordszvorth." The second Letter was undated. It appeared in The Alornin^^ Post, Friday, December 20th, 1844, p. 5, when it was fully signed " William Wordsworth:' On December \?>th, 1844, an anonymous admirer of the Poet contributed to The Morning Post a Sonnet To William Wordsworth, Occasioned by his Letter on the contemplated Lake Railroad. The Sonnet, which commences O well befits the deep indignant strain Poured from the honic where thou so long hast dwelt, was signed with the single initial " J\P. " An edition of the Letters (undated, but apparently issued shortly after the appearance of the original Pamphlet) was published in London by Messrs. Whittaker & Co. of Ave Maria Lane, and Edward Moxon of Dover Street, jointly. The Two Letters (accompanied by the prefatory Sonnet) were reprinted in The Prose Works of William Wordsworth, Edited by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart, 1876, Vol. ii, pp. 331 — 341. Again reprinted (but without the prefatory Sonnet) in The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Edited by William Knight, Vol. viii, 1886, pp. 299 — 321. Also included (still without the prefatory Sonnet) in Pj-ose i64 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. Works of William Wordszuort/i, Edited by William Knight, 1896, Vol. ii, pp. 383—405. The Sonnet itself was first introduced into Wordsworth's Poems in the edition of 1845. There is a copy of the First Edition of Kendal a?id Windermere Raihvay in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 58. b. 17. (30) [To THE Oup:en : 1846] To / The Queen : / Dedicatory Verses addressed / to Her Majesty with the / Author's Poems /.By / WilHam Wordsworth, / Poet Laureate. / Printed for the Author / By R. Branthwaite and Son, / Kendal, 1846. Collation: — Foolscap octavo, pp.7; consisting of: Half- title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Title-page, as above (with blank reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; and Text of the Verses pp. 5 — 7. There are no head-lines, the pages being numbered centrally in Arabic numerals. At the foot of p. 7 (the reverse of which is blank) is the following imprint: "Kendal : I Printed by R. Bran- t/nvaite and Son." The Vases are dated at the end, " Rydal Mount, I January gtk, 1846." There are no signatures, the pamphlet being composed of a single half-sheet, folded to form eight pages. Issued stitched, and without wrappers. The leaves measure 6| x 4}f inches. TO THE QUEEN: ^X^ DEDICATORY VERSES ADDRESSED TO HER MAJESTY WITH THE AUTHOR'S POEMS BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, Poet Laureate. PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR BY R. BRANTHWAITE AND SON, KENDAL, 1846. E Dm ONES PR INC /PES, ETC. 167 Co life /lis. rAGK To 'J'he Queen. [Dei^n, Sovereign Mistress, to accept a liiy\ 5 These Verses were written by Wordsworth upon a copy of his Poems presented by him to the Queen, and were first printed in the present slender brochure, of which it was at one time beHeved that only two examples had survived. But a few years ago a tiny " remainder," consisting of some half-dozen copies, was unearthed, but even with these the pamphlet remains one of the most uncommon of the First Editions of Wordsworth. There is at present no copy of Dedicatory Verses to tiie Queen in the Library of the British Museum. (31) [Ode Performed at Cambridge: 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, / Chan- cellor of the University. / \^Ar!Jis of the Universit)'\\ Cambridge : / Printed at the University Press. / 1847. Collation : — Quarto, pp. 8 ; consisting of: Title-page, as above (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; and Text of the Ode pp. 3 — 8. There are no head-lines, the pages being numbered centrally in Arabic numerals. As the pamphlet (which was issued without any half-title) is composed of a single sheet folded to form eight pages, there is no register. 1 68 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. Issued stitched, and without wrappers. The leaves, whicli, in the case of every copy I have seen, were trimmed, measure lOo x8j inches. The Ode was sung at Cambridge on July 6tli, 1847, at the Installation of the Prince Consort as Chancellor of the Uni- versity, and the present pamphlet was produced at the University Press in readiness for that event. Upon the following day, Julv 1th, the text was reproduced in the daily papers, accompanied by a statement that it had been " written for the occasion by the Poet Laureate, by Royal command." The verses were pro- bably to a large degree the combined work of Christopher Wordsworth (afterwards Bishop of Lincoln) and Edward Quillinan, the poet's nephew and son-in-law respectively. The state of Wordsworth's health in the summer of 1847 ^'■^^ such as pre- cluded him from undertaking alone an official task of this character. The music for the Ode was composed by T. A. Walmisley, Mus.Doc, and was published in London by Chappell, of New Bond Street. The First Edition of Installation Ode is an item of considerable rarity. Not more than five or six examples in all have come within my knowledge, and there is at present no copy in the Library uf the British Museum. (32) {First Published Edition : 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 Vizetelly Brothers and Co. / Published by George Bell, Fleet Street. / [Price ^s. 6^/.] ,\ < • .* T ^i ^^ ^$ V »; >vi <»«. ^«Si S# x.4_. V. s i. *:> t ^^ EDIT/ONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 171 Collation : — Quarto, pp. 8 ; consisting of: A full-length Portrait of " H.R.H. Prince Albert, in his Robes as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge " (with blank recto) pp. i — 2 ; and Text of the Ode pp. 3 — 8. There are no head-lines, the pages are un- numbered, and there is no register. The title, as above, appears upon the front wrapper only. The text throughout is set within heavy decorative borders, printed in crimson, blue, and gold. Issued in white glazed paper wrappers. The title, as given in the above transcript, appears upon the front cover, enclosed within a double rectangular frame, the whole printed in gold. The same frame, also printed in gold, enclosing the Arms of the Prince Consort, is imposed upon the back wrapper. The leaves, which were trimmed, measure 9}^ x /^'V inches. This edition, regularly published in London, must have been produced with considerable promptitude, for an example in my own possession bears the following inscription in the Poet's hand- writing, '■'■ Ha)mah Cookson., from her Affectionate Friend JViiiiam Wordsworth, Rydai Mount, i^th July, 1S47" — that is, nine days only after the appearance of the privately-circulated princeps. There is a copy of the London Edition of the Installation Ode in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is 11647. f. 34- (33) [The Prelude: 1850] The Prelude, / Or / Growth of a Poet's Mind ; / An Autobiooraphical Poem ; / By / William Words- worth. / London : / Edward Moxon, Dover Street. / 1850. 172 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. Collation: — Demy octavo, pp. x + 374 ; consistinjr of: Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — ii ; Title-page, as above (with imprint " London : j Bradbury and Evans, Printers, WJiitefriars " upon the centre of the reverse) pp. iii — iv ; Preface, styled Advertise- ment, pp. V — viii ; Table of Contents pp. ix — x ; Text of the Poem pp. i — 372 ; and Notes pp. 373 — 374. The imprint is repeated at the foot of the last page. The Poem is divided into Fourteen Books, each of which is preceded by a Fly-title, with blank reverse. There are head-lines throughout, each page being headed with the number and title of the Book occupying it. The signatures are A (6 leaves), B to AA (23 sheets, each 8 leaves), and BB and CC (2 quarto-sheets, each 2 leaves). Sig. A i is a blank ; Sig. CC 2 carries a series of Advertisements of Wordsworth's Poems upon its recto ; the reverse is blank. Issued in deep claret-coloured cloth boards, lettered " The / Prelude j By IV. Wordsivorth " in gold across the back. Price I4i-. The leaves measure 8f X 5f inches. A Second Edition of The Prelude was issued in the following year, 1851. This was printed in foolscap octavo size, uniform with the current edition of Wordsworth's Poetical Works, 6 Vols., 1S49 — 50 [and later dates]. Of this edition it formed the eighth volume, the Poems, Chiejiy of Early and Late Years serving as Vol. vii. This edition of The Prelude was frequently reprinted under later dates, both alone, and as Vol. viii of the Poetical Works. EDITIONES P RING I PES, ETC. I73 Contents. PAGE The Prelude : Book I. Introduction — Childhood and School- time. [O there is blessing in this gentk lireeze] . . 3 Book II. School-time. — Continued. \^Thus far, O Friend ! Jiave wc, though leaving niudi\ iz Book III. Residence at Camhridge. [// ivas a dreary morning when the wheels\ 55 Book IV. Summer Vacation. [Bright was the sununer's noon when quickening steps\ 85 Book V. Books. [ When Contemplation, like the night-calm felt'] 107 Book VI. Cambridge and the Alps. [The leaves tvere fading when to Esthzvaite''s banks] 135 Book VII. Residence in London. \Six changeful years have vanished since I first] 171 Book VIII. Retrospect. — Love of Nature Lead- ing TO Love of Man. [ IVhat sounds are those, Helvellyn, that are heard] 207 Book IX. Residence in France. [Even as a river,— partly {it might see7n)] 239 Book X. Residence in France. — Continued. [It was a beautiful and silent day] ....... 267 Book XL France. — Conchided. [From that time forth, Authority in France] 295 Book XII. Imagination and Taste, how Im- paired and Restored. [Long time have human ignorance and guilt] 3^7 Book XIII. Im.\gination and Taste, how Im- paired and Restored. — Concluded. [From Nature doth emotion come, and moods] .... 335 Book XIV. Conclusion. [In one of my excursions {may they ne'er)] 353 Notes • 373 174 nrnLIOGRAPHV OF IVORDSWORTH. In his prefatory Advertisement to The Prelude Wordsworth recorded that the work was " commenced in the beginning of 1799, and completed in the summer of 1805." The Poem was intended to form an Introduction to The Recluse, and the latter, had it been completed, would have consisted of three Parts. Of these the Second Part alone, The Excursioji, was finished, and given to the world by its author. [See ante, No. 10.] The First Part of the First Book of The Recluse remained unprinted until 1888, when it was published alone from the Author's original Manuscript. [See post, No. 34.] Th(S " Friend " to whom Tlic Prelude was addressed was Samuel Taylor Coleridge, at that time resident in Malta. [See the Preface to The Excursion, 18 14, p. viii.] Coleridge, after hearing the Poem recited, composed the lines To a Gentleman Y' Friend of the Wise I and Teacher of the Good l\ printed in Sibylline Leaves, 1817, pp. 197 — 203. There is a copy of the First Edition of The Prelude in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is 11645. f, 5. (34) [The Recluse: 1888] The Recluse / By / William W'orclsworth / London / Macmillan and Co. / And New York / 188S / All rights reserved. Collation : — Globe octavo, pp. vi4-56 ; consisting of: Half- title (with the Publishers' Monogram upon the centre of the reverse) pp. i — ii ; Title-page, as above (with blank reverse) pp. iii — iv ; Prefatory Note (with blank reverse) pp. v — vi ; and Text of the Poem pp. I — 56. The head-line is The Recluse throughout, ''"'•^; cy Ar-, lA.^ Ae^-M^^ ^^' '^ ■'•'-• , ' ^ ■ . ^ ■ i- /A-yy^h^-. ■jt h A-c<^-^ h^f'^^'A ^-^ / /•/ ..y ,;a- Ur^^- ^^JiA^.A^^-'^^ - . ■ / ..• -^ .,Jb 77^6' Kcdttse, lines 92—115. EDIT/ONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 177 upon both sides of the page. At the foot of p. 56 is the following imprint, " Printed by R. and R. Clark, Edinburgh." The signatures are A (a half-sheet of 4 leaves), B to D (3 sheets, each 8 leaves), and E (a half-sheet of 4 leaves). Sig. A i is a blank. Issued in bright green cloth boards, lettered " T/ie j Recluse / Mactnillan " in gold across the back. The leaves measure 6f X 4j inches. The published price was Two Shillings and Sixpence. Contents. The Recluse. Part First, Book First — Home at Grasmere. [Once to the verge of yon steep barrier came] i T/ie Recluse, though in a way complete in itself, does not constitute a completed work. U'ordsworth had planned a long and elaborate autobiographical poem to consist of three Parts and a Prelude, to bear the title The Recluse. But of the four sections all he lived to produce were 77/,? Prelude, published alone in 1850 [see ante. No. 33], The Excursion, also published alone in 18 14 [see atite. No. 10], and the present poem, which was left in manuscript at his death, and which represents the first Part of the first Book only. '''' The Recluse," Wordsworth wrote to Landor in September 182 i, " has had a long sleep, save in my' thoughts. My manuscripts are so ill-penned and blurred that at present I cannot face them. But if my stomach can be preserved in tolerable order, I hope you will hear of me again, in the character chosen for the title of that poem." A passage consisting of twenty-seven lines from the then unpublished Recluse was pri-nted by Wordsworth, with a slightly N 178 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. differing text, in the Fourth Edition, 1823, of A Description of the Scenery of tlie Lakes. In the Poetical Works of 1827, Vol. ii, pp. 51 — 52, the lines were included as a complete poem under the title Water-Pozvl. The last 107 lines of The Recluse [On Man, on Nature, and on Hiimafi Life, &c.] had previously appeared in The Excursion. 1 814, pp. X — xiv, where Wordsworth introduced them at the close of his Preface as *' a kind of Prospectus of the design and scope of the whole Poem." There is a copy of the First Edition of The Recluse in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is 11644. g. 16. (35) [Letters from the Lake Poets : 1889] Letters / from the / Lake Poets, / Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William / Wordsworth, Robert Southey, / To / Daniel Stuart, / E^ditor of The Morning Post and The Courier, / 1800- 1838. / Printed for Private Circulation. / To Pope from Mr, Blount. " Among vty ambitions, that of being a sincere friend is one of j the chief : yet f ivill confess that / have a secret pleasu7'e to have \ some of my descendants knoiv, that their Ancestor was great with / Mr. Pope.'' — Pope's Works, Vol. viii, mdccli. / London : / Printed by West, Newman and Co., / 54, Hatton Garden, E.C. / 1889. EDIT/ONES P RING I PES, ETC. 179 Collation : — Demy octavo, pp. xvi + 463 ; consisting of: Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — ii ; Title-page, as above (with blank reverse) pp. iii — iv ; Table of Contents (with blank reverse) pp. v — vi ; Notes re- garding The Copyright of the Letters (with blank reverse) pp. vii — viii ; Memoir of Daniel Stuart pp. ix — xii ; Iiitt'oductory Letter by William Erskinc pp. xiii — XV ; p. xvi is blank ; Fly-title to Letters from S. T. Coleridge (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Text of the Letters pp. 3 — 326 ; Fly-title to Letters from Wo7-dsworth (with blank reverse) pp. 327 — 328 ; Text of the Letters pp. 329 — 386 ; Fly-title to Letters from Southey (with blank reverse) pp. 387 — 388 ; Text of the Letters pp. 389 — 435 ; p. 436 is blank ; Fly-title to Poems by Robert SoiitJiey (with blank reverse) pp.437 — 438 ; Text of the Poems pp. 439 — 448 ; and Appendix pp. 449 — 463. The reverse of p. 463 is blank. There are head-lines throughout. Beyond that upon the foot of the Title-page, the book bears no imprint. The register is denoted by Arabic numerals, the volume consisting of 30 sheets (each 8 leaves) numbered i — 30. Issued in dull slate-coloured cloth boards, with white paper back-label, lettered " Letters / from the / Lake Poets I to j Daniel Stuart." The leaves measure 8^ X 5^ inches. This work was compiled by Miss Mary Stuart, and edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge. There is a copy of the First Edition of Letters from the Lake Poets in the Library of the British Museum. The Press- mark is 010920. g. ly. i8o BIBLIUGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. (36; [Poems and Extracts for an Album : 1905] Poems and Extracts / Chosen by / William Wordsworth / for an Album / Presented to Lady Mary Lowther / Christmas, 1819 / Printed literally from the Original Album / With Eacsimiles / London / Henry Frovvde / 1905. Collation : — Crown 8vo, pp. xx + 106. Issued in cloth boards, gilt, with untrimmed edges. Inserted between p. xx and p. i is a facsimile of a signed Manuscript of Wordsworth's Sonnet To the Lady Alary Lowther \_Lady ! / rifled a Parnassian Cave\ The Frontispiece is a reproduction of a pen-and-ink Portrait of Wordsworth, in profile, crowned with laurels. It is questionable whether this volume is entitled to a place among the Editiones Frincipes of William Wordsworth. The contents were not ' edited,' but merely ' chosen,' by him. I give it the benefit of the doubt ; the individual collector may accept or reject it as he pleases. There is a copy of Poems and Extracts .... for an Allnini in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is 11604. b. 17. (37) [Letters of the Wordsworth Fanhlv : 1907] Letters of the / Wordsworth F"amily / P^rom 1787 to 1855 / Collected and Edited / By / William Knight / In Three Volumes / Volume I \l^olni}ie II, c2rV.] / Boston and London / Ginn and Com- pany / 1907. EDIT! ONES PR INC I PES, ETC. i8i Collation : — Crown octavo : Vol. I. pp. xxxiii 4- 542. Vol. II. pp. xxix -f 509. Vol. III. pp. xxxi +498. Issued in deep crimson cloth boards. The volumes contain the following Illustrations : Vol. I. The Statue of Wordsworth, by Frederick Thrupp, in the Baptistry in Westminster Abbey. Vol. II. Dove Cottage, Grasmere, by John McWhirter. Vol. III. Rydal Mount, by John McWhirter. There is a copy of Letters of the Wordsivorth Family in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is 10905. cc. 26. (38) [The Law of Copyright: 1916] The Law / of / Copyright / By / William Wordsworth / London : / Printed for Private Circulation / 191 6. Collation :— Quarto, pp. 10 ; consisting of : Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. r — 2 ; Title-page, as above (with blank reverse) pp. 3—4 ; Prefatory Note pp. 5—6 ; and Text pp. 7 — 10. Following p. 10 is a leaf, with blank reverse, and with the following imprint upon its recto, "■London: / Printed for Tlwmas f. Wise, Hanipstead, N. IV. / Edition /ignited to Thirty Copies!' The head-line is The Lazu of Copyright throughout, upon both sides of the page. The pages are numbered at foot in Arabic numerals. There are no signatures, but the pamphlet is com- posed of two sheets, each 4 leaves, one inset within the other. The first and last leaves are blank. i82 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. Issued in bright red paper wrappers lined with white, with trimmed edges, and with the title-page, imposed within a single rectangular ruled frame, reproduced upon the front. The leaves measure 9 X 75 inches. Thirty copies only were printed. The text of the pamphlet consists of an open letter addressed by Wordsworth to Serjeant Talfourd, M.P., which appeared in The Morning Post of April 23/-^, 1838, and which had ap- parently escaped all notice until I chanced upon it recently when searching a file of the paper for any stray writing of Wordsworth's. The Copyright Act referred to by the poet was presented to the House of Commons for the first time on April i?>tli, 1838. When he set himself to compose the present letter Words- worth was for the second time employing his pen in support of Talfourd's Bill. An earlier letter, dated April izth, 1838, ad- dressed to the Editor of The Kendal Mercury, had appeared in the columns of that paper on April \6th, 1838, over the pseu- donymous initials "A.B.'' This earlier letter is already well known, and is included in the Frose Works of William Words- 7vorlh, edited by William Knight, 1S96, Vol. ii, pp. 375 — 382. Its successor, now rescued from its obscurity in a dusty file of an old newspaper, should henceforth find a place beside it. There is a copy of The La7v of Copyright in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 57. i. 8. NOTE. \Aiite, p. 79.] The Great War awakened a renewed interest in Wordsworth's The Convention of Cintra, and in 191 5 an edition was published in London, with an Introduction by A. V. Dicey — Crown 8vo, pp. xl + 244. PART II. CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE, etc. NOTE. The openi>ig line of each poem as (jiioted in the following pages is given ^precisely as it stands in the book or periodical in %vhich it first appeared. In many instances the lines nnder7vent revision when the poems were subsequently collected by their author. if./:'/- ^ / .^.6 r^' /^^^/^ ^^^^ '^y^^h . //y ^^^ z^^' ^--^ ' --^-2*^^^ 75^„^^ ,..../ '^-^•' /I- - A^/..^w^ 'ks on his vieiv. IVhen from the dark Synod, or blood-reeking field. To his chamber the Monarch is led, All soothers of sense their soft virtue shall yield. And silent attention shall pilhnv his head. If the less guilty Convict a moment would dose. And oblivion his tortures appease, On the iron that galls him his limbs must repose In the damp-dripping vault of disease. When full fain he would sleep, and had patiently tried A^o longer his body to turn. And the iron that enters so deep in /lis side Has entered too deep to be borne ; While the jail-mastiff howls at the dull-clanking chain, From the roots of his hair there shall start A thousand sharp punctures of cold-sweating pain, And terror shall leap at his heart I igo BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. But noiv he half-raises his deep-sunken eye. And the motion unsettles a tear ! It seems the hnv voice of despair to supply, And asks of me, why I am here ? Poor victim ! no idle intntder has stood With overweening complacence our states to compare ; But one whose first %vish is the wish to he good, Is come as a brother thy sorrows to share. At thy ?iame, though compassion her nature resigji, Tito' in virtue's proud mouth thy report be a stain. My care, if the artn of the mighty zvere mine, Would plant thee where yet thou might'' st blossom again. Vain 2vish ! Yet misdeem not that vainly I grieve — When vengeance has quitted her grasp on thy frame, My pity thy children and ivife shall reprieve From the dangers that limit round the dwellings of shame. When The Convict was published in The Morning Post it appeared over the signature " Mortimer." This nom-deplume was afterwards appended by Coleridge to his stanzas Moricns Superstiti, which were printed in T/ie Morning Post on May \oth, 1798. Mr. R. A. Potts has suggested (in The Athencnum, August 13///, 1904) that Wordsworth had given a copy of the poem to Coleridge, and that the latter, " unfurnished for the moment with anything he considered fit for Dan. Stuart's columns, had written out his friend's verses, and sent them, in lieu of a contribution of his own, to the importunate editor." (4) The Morning Post, Februajy i2,th, 1798. Sonnet. \If gi^ief dismiss me not to them that rt'.sY] Reprinted in The Poems of William Wordsivorth, Edited by Nowell Charles Smith, M.A., 1908, Vol. iii, p. 547. CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE. 191 (5) The Morning Post, July 21st, iSoo. The Farmer of Tilsburv Vale. ['7Va- iwi for the unfeeling, the falsely refined^ Reprinted in Poems, 18 15, Vol. ii, pp. 306 — 310. (6) The Morning Post, February 12th, 1802. To A Beautiful Young Lady who had been HARSHLY spoken OF ON ACCOUNT OF HER FoNF;- NESS FOR TAKING LoNG WaLKS IN THE CoUNTRY. \_Dear Child of Nature ! let them raif\ Reprinted (under the amended title To a Young Lady Who had been reproached for taking long Walks in the Country) in Poems, 1807, Vol. ii, pp. 82—83. (7) The Morning Post, February \T,th, 1802. Sonnet. Written at Evening. \Calui is all nature as a resting wheel~\ Reprinted (under the amended title Written in very early Youth) as Sonnet xiii of the Afiscellaneous Sonnets in Poems, 1807, Vol. i, p. 117. 192 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. (8) The Morning Post, March qth, 1802. Written in a Grotto. [6> Moon ! if ccr I joyed ivJien thy soft light^ First included in The Poems of William Words- worth, Edited by Thomas Hutchinson, M.A., 1S95, pp. 629-630. These Hnes were first identified as Wordsworth's by Mr. Ernest Hartley Coleridge, and were com- municated by him to The Athenceum, November ^th, 1893. (9) Ttie Morning Post, September idth, 1802. Sonnet. [I grievd for Btwnapartc — ivitk a vain\ This Sonnet, which was here printed without signature, reappeared in The Morning Post for January 29///, 1803, over the initials " W. L. D. " Reprinted, without a title, in Poems, 1807, Vol. i, p. 130, as Soimet iv of Sonnets Dedicated to Liberty. (10) Tlie Morni7ig Post, Jatiuary 29///, 1803. Calais, August, 1802. [A\i. 60 — 75. On p. xxxviii of his Preface Dr. Grosart asserts that "Wordsworth's own capitals, italics, punctua- tion, and other somewhat antique characteristics, have been faithfully reproduced." What amount of reliance can be placed upon Dr. Grosart's state- ment may be ascertained by comparing the text of this Essay as it appears in The Friend, and as it reappears in the present edition of 1S76. But Dr. Grosart was at all times one of the least careful and least reliable of editors. Again reprinted [verbatim from Grosart's edition, without any appeal to the original text] in Prose Works of William Wordsworth, Edited by William Knight, 1896, Vol. ii, pp. 123 142. 202 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. (28) Select Views i)i Cionberland^ Westmoreland, and La)icashire. By the Rev. Joseph Wilkinson, Folio, iSio, pp. i — xxxiv. Introduction (by Wordsworth). Reprinted (in an extended form) in The River Duddon, 1820, pp. 213 — 321, under the title Topo- graphical Description of the Country of the Lakes ifi the North of England. First produced as an independent volume, with the addition of a considerable amount of fresh matter, under the title A Descriptiofi of the Scenery of the Lakes in the North of England, i2mo, 1822, pp. iv + 156. [See ante, Part I., No. 21.] In this volume first appeared (p. 42) the Sonnet, then without a title, commencing " A 7veight of awe not easy to be borne.'''' When reprinted in The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, 1827, Vol. ii, p. 327, the Sonnet was christened " The Monument commonly called Long Aleg and her Daughters, near the river Eden." (29) The Examiner, Januaiy 2 8///, 1 8 [ 6 . Sonnet. November i, 18 15. \fIow clear, kozv keen, hozv marvellously bright^ Reprinted in Thanksgiving Ode, with other Short Pieces, t8i6, p. 39. CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE. 203 (30) The Champion, February ^fh, 1816. Inscription for a National Monument in Commemoration of the Battle of Waterloo. \Intrepid sons of Albion ! — not by y oil] Reprinted in Tlianksgiving Ode, with oilier S/iorf Pieces, 1816, p. 35. Sonnet. F'ebruarv, 18 16. [6>, for a kindling touch of that pure flanie\ Reprinted in Thanksgiving Ode, until oilier S/iori Pieces, 1816, p. 37. To B. R. Haydon, Esq. \High is onr calling, Friend /• — Creative A rt] Also printed in Tlie Examiner, March 3ii"/, 1S16. Reprinted in Thanksgiving Ode, ivitli oilier Short Pieces, 181 6, p. 40. (31) The Examiner, February nth, 1S16. Sonnet. September 18 15. [^JVhile not a leaf seetns faded, — ivhile the fields] Reprinted in Tlianksgiving Ode, with other Short Pieces, 18 16, p. 38. 204 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. (32) Blackwood's Magazine, Jainiary 1 8 1 9. P. 471. Sonnets, suggested r.v Mr. W. Westall's Views OF Caves, &c., in Yorkshire. 1. \PHre Eleiuent of Waters, ivlicTcsoeer'\ Reprinted in Peter Bell, A Tale in Ver^se, 18 19, p. 85. 2. Malham Cove. \^U\is the aim fruslrated by force or guile'\ Reprinted in Peter Bell, A Tale in Verse, 181 9, p. 87. 3. Gordale. \^At early daivn, or when the ivariuer air'\ Reprinted (the first line reading " At early dawn, — or rather when the air''') in Peter Bell, A Tale in Verse, 18 19, p. 86. (33) A Collection of Poems from liviiig Authors. Edited by Joanna Baillie, 1823. P. 52. Sonnet. \_Not Love, nor War, nor the tmnnltiious swell\ Reprinted in The Poetical JVorhs of lVillia?n Wordsivorth, 1827, Vol. ii, p. 306. CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE. 205 P. 52. Sonnet. \^A volant Tribe of Bards on earth are founcP^^ Reprinted in The Poetical Works of William Wordszvorth, 1827, Vol. ii, p. 290. (34) The Casket, 1829. P. 259. The Peat Stack. {Untoucli^d through all severity of cold~\ Reprinted (under a new title, Filial Piety) in The Poetical Works of Williani Wordsworth, 1832, Vol. ii, p. 198. (35) The Keepsake, Edited by F. M. Reynolds, 1829. I'P- 50—51- The Country Girl. [That happy gleam of vernal eyes'] Reprinted (under the amended title The Gleaner) in The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, 1832, Vol. iii, pp. 253—254. In T/ie Kccpsatce the poem was accompanied by an Illus- tration, engraved upon steel by Charles Heath. Pp. 72—79. The Triad. \_Show me the noblest Youth of present time] Reprinted in The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, 1832, Vol. ii, pp. 52-- 59. 2o6 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. Pp. 1 08 — no. The Wishing Gate. \^Hope rules a land for ever reefi] Reprinted in T/ie Poetical Works of William Wordsworth^ 1S32, Vol. iii, pp. 225 — 227. P. 156. A Gravestone upon the floor in the Cloisters OF Worcester Cathedral. [" Miserriuius ! " and neither name nor date^ Reprinted in The Poetical Works of William Wordsivorth, 1832, Vol. ii, j). 197. P. 183. A Tradition of Darley Dale, Derbyshire. \^Tis said that to the broiv of yon fair hill\ Reprinted in The Poetical Works of William Wordsivorth, 1832, Vol. ii, p. 197. (36) The Philuloi^ical JSIuseiim, 1832. Pp. 382—386. Translation of part of the First Book of the /Eneid. \^But Cytherea, stitdions to invent \ This Translation (which was preceded in The Philological Magazi?ie by a letter addressed to the Editor, Julius Charles Hare) was never reprinted by Wordsworth. CONTI^IBUTIONS TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE. 207 (37) The Literary Souvenir, Edited by Alaric A. ^^\ltts, 1833, p. i. Sonnet. On Sir Walter Scott's quitting Abbotsford for Naples. [_A ii-onb/e, not of clouds, or zvccping rant] Reprinted in Yarro7v Revisited, and Other Foe/ns, 1835, p. 9- (38) The Athenmini, December \2fJ1, 1S35. Pp. 930—931. Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg. \}V hen first, descending from the moor- lands^ Reprinted in The Poetical Works of William Wordsivorth, 1S37, Vol. 5, pi*. 335 — 336. (39) Tiie Kendal Mercury, 1S36. Speech on laying the Foundation-Stone of the NEW School in the Village of Bowness, Winfjermere. Reprinted in The Prose Works of William Words- worth, Edited by the Rev. A. B. Grosart, 1876, Vol. i, pp. 350—356. 2o8 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. (40) The Ti-ibute : A Collection of Miscellaneous Un- published Poems, by Various Authors, Edited by Lord Northampton, 8vo, 1837, p. 3. Stanzas. [ The JMoon that sails along the sky\ Reprinted (under the amended title A Night Thought, the first Hne reading ^^ Lo f where the Moon along the sky ") in Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years, 1842, p. 79. (41) The Kendal Meirury, April i^th, 1838. Serjeant Talfourd's Copy-right Bill. A Letter from Wordsworth to the Editor, dated " \2th April, 1838," and signed with the pseudo- nymous initials "A. B." Reprinted in Prose Works of William Wordsworth, Edited by William Knight, 1896, Vol. ii, pp. 375—382. (42) The Morning Post, April 2'T,rd, 1838. The Law of Copyright. A Letter from Wordsworth dated ''April 18///, 1838," and signed in full, addressed to Serjeant T. N. Talfourd, M.P., regarding the proposed new Copyright Bill. Reprinted only in the following pamphlet : " The Law of Copyright j By / Jl'illiam JJords7C'or/h / London : j Printed for Private Circulation j igi6."-—[Ante, Part i. No. 38.] CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE. 209 (43) Taifs Edinburgh lifagaziiie, Septeinber 1839. P. 573. George and Sarah Green. \WJio weeps for strangers ? A/any wepf] This Poem was never reprinted by Wordsworth. Although not printed until 1839, the verses had been composed as early as 1808. (44) The Poems of Geoffrey Chmtcer, Modernized. By R. H. Home, 8vo, 1S41. Pp- 35—53- The Cuckoo and the Nightingale. \^Thc God of Love — ah, bencdicitc /] Reprinted in Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years, 1842, pp. 149 — 165. Pp- 125—135. Extract from Troilus and Cresida. \Ncxt morning Troilus began to clear^ Reprinted in Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years, 1842, pp. 206 — 214. (45) The Quarterly Review, Decend'er, 1S41, pp. 42 — 49. Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death : 1. This spot — at once tin folding sight so fan- 2. Tenderly do we feel by iVat//res La7c' 2IO BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. 3. The Roman Consul doomed his sons to die 4. Is Death, when evil against good has fought 5. ISot to the object specially designed 6. Ye brood of conscience, Spectres ! that frequent 7. Before the world had passed her time of youth 8. Fit retribution, by the moral code 9. Though to give timely ivarning and deter 10. Our bodily life, some plead, that life the shrine 1 1. Ah, think hoiu one compelled for life to abide 12. See the Condemned alone within his cell 1 3. Yes, though he well may tremble at the sound 14. The formal zvorld relaxes her cold chain Reprinted in Poems, Ctiiefly of Early and Late Years, 1842, pp. 166 — 179. These fourteen Sonnets were included in a Review by Sir Henry Taylor of ^Vordsworth's Soft7ieis, 1838. In the course of this Review several extracts from the volume in question were also given. The manner in which Sir Henry Taylor became pos- sessed of the fourteen then unpublished Sonnets does not appear to have been placed upon record. (46) ^ La Petite ChotianJierie on Histob-e d'un College Breton sous l' Empire. By A. F. Rio, 1842. The Eagle and the Dove. [^Shade of Caractacus, if spirits loz'e~\ This pr)em was never reprinted by W'ordsworth. CONTRFBUTIONS TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE 211 ■ (47) The Morning Post, October 16///, 1844. Sonnet on the projected Kendal and Win- dermere Railway, [A there no nook of Enoiish ground secure^^ Reprinted in Kendal and Windermere Railway, &c., 1845, p. 3, and afterwards included in the Poems of 1845, p. 217. (48) The Morning Post, December 11///, 1844. A Letter on the Kendal and Windermere Railway. Reprinted in Kendal and Windermere Raihvay, &c., 1845, pp. 5—14- (49) The Morning Post, December 20th, 1844. A Letter on the Kendal and Windermere Railway. Reprinted in Kendal atid Windermere Raihvay, &CC., 1845, pp. 15—23- (50) Spencer Farm, JVith some account 0/ its Owners, London, Fcp. 8vo, 1845, pp. vi— viii. An Introductory Letter by Wordsworth. Spencer Farm consists of the Memoirs of Mr. G. L. Way, and his son the Rev. Lewis Way. P 2 212 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. Memoirs of William Words7twrth. By Christopher Wordsworth, D.D. 8vo, 185 1. Vol. i, pp. 10 — 13. Written as a School Exercise at Hawkshead, Anno ^Etatis 14. \^And has the sun his flaming chariot driven\ Vol. i, p. 21. On a Portrait of I. F.,* Painted by Margaret Gillies. \We gaze — nor gj'ieve to think that ive must die^ * " I. F." were the initials of Isabella Fenwick. Vol. i, p. 22. To I. F. \_The star zvhich comes at close of day to shinc^ (52) The Autobiography of JVilliam Jerdaii^ i853> ^^ol. iv, p. 239. A Letter from Wordsworth to William Jerdan (dated '' Rydal Alount, Oct. 7" [18 13]) was printed for the first time in this volume. (53) Old Age i?i Bath. By Dr. H. J. Hunter, Fcp. Svo, Bath, 1873, pp. 70—74- Two Letters from Wordsworth to the Rev. Joseph Hunter were printed for the first time in this volume. CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE. 213 (54) Benjamin Robert Haydon : Correspondence and Table-Talk, 2 Vols. 8vo, 1876. Several Letters from Wordsworth to B. R. Haydon were printed for the first time in these volumes. (55) Li_fe of Sir W. Rowan Hamilton. By Robert Perceval Graves, M.A. 3 Vols. Svo, 1882, 1885, and i88g. Several Letters from Wordsworth to Sir W. Rowan Hamilton were printed for the first time in these volumes. (56) Tratisactions of the Wordsworth Society, 1886 — 7. No. vi. Sixteen Letters from Wordsworth to John Ken YON were printed for the first time in this volume, to- gether with fragments of two letters to Walter Savage Landor. No. viii. A Series of Letters from Wordsworth to Henry Crabb Robinson were printed for the first time in this volume. 214 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. (57) Memorials of Cohort on. By William Knight, 2 Vols. 8vo, 1887. Thirty-five Letters from Wordsworth to Sir George Beaumont and Lady Beaumont were printed for the first time in these volumes. (58) Thomas Poole and his Friends. By Mrs. Henry Sandford, 2 Vols. 8vo, 188S. Vol. ii, pp. 54 — 56 and 58 — 61. Two Lett-ers addressed by Wordsworth to Thomas Poole were printed for the first time in this volume. (59) De Quincey Memorials. By Alexander H. Japp, LL.D., 1891, 2 Vols. 8vo. Several Letters from Wordsworth to Thomas DE Quincey were printed for the first time in these volumes. The letters, which chiefly related to the publication of Words- worth's pamphlet Comerntii^ the Coiivcniion of Ciiitra, were not given in full. (60) The Fall Mall Magazine, Vol. ix, 1896, pp. 572 — 573- Lines. [_Not loth to thank each moment fo)' its booii\ CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE. 215 Re'printed in The Poems of IVilliam ]Vords7vorth, Edited by Nowell Cliades Smith, M.A., 1908, Vol. iii, p. 547. In The Pall Mall Ma^:;azine the Lines were given in facsimile as well as in letterpress, and were accompanied by an Illustration. (61) Notes and Queries, Eighth Series, 1897, Vol. .\ii, p. 86. Two Letters addressed by Wordsworth to John Adamson, the biographer oe Camoens, were printed for the first time in this voliame. (62) A Description of the JVordsworth and Colerid,^e Manuscripts in the possession of Mr. T. Norton Longman, Edited by W. Hale White, 410, 1897, pp. 67 — 68. The Tinker. \_Ulio leads a happy lifc^ Reprinted in The Poems of William Wo'-dsworth, Edited by Nowell Charles Smith, M.A., 1908, Vol. iii, pp. 423 — 424. Although not published until 1S97, the poem was composed as early as April, 1802. *#* The poems noted in the foregoing pages as never having been reprinted by Wordsivorth, as well as the three early poems tvhich first appeared in the Memoirs of 185 1, are alt included in the ' Oxford IVordsivorth,' edited by Thomas Hutchinson, M.A., }8g-i [and later dates]. PART III. COLLECTED EDITIONS. , N^-'-^ 11 ^ 1 1.^ 5,"\\ ^ "* O T i iHi ■ mpfcjK C'>^ t ■^ ^) 'ik -Iv;- A 4 AV 1 A ;- A X <^^ 1^4 PART III. COLLECTED EDITIONS OF THE POETICAL, PROSE, AND DRAMATIC WORKS. In compiling the following list of Collected Editions of the Poetical, Prose, and Dramatic Works of William Wordsworth actual New Editions only have been considered. Mere reprints from stereotyped plates have been systematically disregarded. The whole of the editions included in the many Series ol "Works" of various poets are confined to non-copyright matter, and are frequently but little more than Selections. No attention has therefore been paid to any of these collections. The editions which find a place upon the list are all of bibliographical im- portance, as each of them afforded the opportunity of introducing to the public some fresh instalment of the Poet's work, or was the vehicle by means of which compositions already current were given their final shape. (I) The / Miscellaneous / Poems / of / William Wordsworth / in Four Volumes. / Vol. I. \^Vol. II. &c^ / London : / Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, / Paternoster- Row, / 1S20, 222 BTBLTOGRAPHV OF WORDSWORTH. Collation : — Duodecimo. Vol. I. pp. xlvii + 317 + List of Errata. „ II. „ vii + 347. „ III. „ xi + 338- „ IV. „ viii + 331- Although this edition appeared immediately after the publica- tion of The River Duddon, ivc, some of the poems which had been included in that volume had already undergone revision. Each of the four volumes is furnished with an engraved Frontispiece, all being after paintings by Sir George Beaumont, Bart. Issued in drab paper boards, with white paper back-labels. (2) The / Poetical Works / of / William Wordsworth. / In Five Volumes. / Vol. I. [Vol. II. &c.~] j London : / Printed for / Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, / Paternoster-Row. 1827, Collation : — Duodecimo. Vol. I. pp. xlvii -f- 354. Vol. III. pp. xvi -f 455. „ II. „ viii + 391. „ IV. „ vii 4- 397. Vol. V. pp. xvii +421. Imiuediately precedittq tJic text in cacli voliivic is aji i/iseticd slip ca>'ryi/!g a List of Erraid. In this edition the text of the Poems underwent drastic revision. Issued in drab paper boards, with white paper back-labels. COLLECTED EDITIONS. 223 (3) The / Poetical Works / of / William Wordsworth. / A New Edition. / In Four Volumes. / Vol. I. \^Vol. II. &c^^ I London : / Printed for / Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, / Pater- noster-Row. / 1832. Collation :— Foolscap octavo. V^ol. I. pp. xlvii + 343. Vol. III. pp. xi -|- 358. „ II. „ XV + 377. „ IV. „ iv + 357. IViV/i the except 1071 of the firsts each volume has at the end an inserted slip carj-ying a List of Errata. In this edition the text of the Poems differs but slightly from that of 1827. Issued in drab paper boards, with white paper back-labels. Also in dark green cloth boards, gilt-lettered. (4) The / Poetical Works / of / William Wordsworth. / A New Edition. / In Six Volumes. / Vol. I. \_Vol. II. c2r^.] / London: / Edward Moxon, Dover Street. / MDCCCXXXVL Collation : — Post octavo. Vol. I. pp, xlviii -f 314. Vol. IV. pp. xi -f 364. „ IL „ viii + 351- » V. ,„ xi + 412. „ III. „ xii + 355. „ VI. „ XV + 374. The first volume has as Frontispiece a Portrait of Wordsworth by H. W. Pickersgill, engraved by W. H. Watt. 224 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. Vols, i and vi have each an inserted slip carrying a List of Errata. Vols, i and ii are dated 1836 ; Vols, iii — vi are dated 1S37. For this edition the text of the Poems was again revised in a drastic manner. On October 20///, 1836, Wordsworth wrote to the Rev. T. J. Judkins : '"'■ I am triity sensible of your kind offer to assist in illustrating my Poems., I regret that this was not thought of when we met in Town, and something migJit have been contrived for our Mutual satisfaction — // is now too late for the present edition. . . . I have desired Mr. Moxon to send yoic tny volumes as they come out. If you think it worth whiile to compare the pieces entitled ' Evening Walkj' ' Descrip- tive Sketches,'' arid ' The Waggoner^ you will find I have made very considerable alterations, which I trust will be found to be im-prove- ments — at all events they ought to be so, for they cost me much labour." The 6 volumes were reissued in 1839, the title-page of each volume bearing that date. No alteration was made in the text, but the Errata notified upon the slips inserted in the original volumes were duly corrected. Issued in dark green cloth boards, gilt lettered. (5) The / Poetical Works /of/ William Wordsworth. / A New Edition. / In Six Volumes. / Vol. I. \^Vo/. II. drV.] / London : / Edward Moxon, Dover Street. / MDCCCXL. Collation : — Post octavo. Vol. I. pp. xlviii + 313. Vol. IV. pp. xi + 371. II. „ viii + 351. „ V. „ xi + 444. „ III. „ xii 4- 355- ,. VI. „ xv + 374. COLLECTED EDITIONS. 225 Vols, i, ii, iv, and v have each an engraved Frontispiece after paintings by Sir George Beaumont, Bart. Vol. vi has a Portrait of Wordsworth by H. W. Pickersgill, engraved by W. H. Watt. This edition was printed from stereotyped plates made from the edition of 1836 — 7, with the corrections of 1839. But to Vol. v was added a supplement of 32 pages carrying 12 Sonnets which had first appeared in The Sonnets of William Wordsworth., 1838 [cniie, p. 153], together with translations into Latin by the Rev, John Wordsworth of three of his father's poems. The 6 volumes were reprinted from plates in 1841 and 1842. To the latter issue was added a seventh volume, consisting of Foetns, Chiefly of Early and Late Years, pp. xii + 405 [ante, p. 155]. The 7 volumes were reprinted from plates in 1843, 1845, 1846, 1849, and 185 1. To the latter issue was added an eighth volume, containing The Prelude, pp. x + 304 \ante, p. 172]. In the several issues of this edition from 1840 to 1846 various slight changes are to be observed in the text. Wordsworth evidently introduced these changes gradually, and the plates were altered from time to time to accommodate them. Issued in dark claret-coloured cloth boards, gilt lettered. (6) The / Poems / of/ William Wordsworth, D.C.L., / Poet Laureate, etc., etc. / A New Edition. / London : / Edward IMoxon, Dover Street. / MDCCCXLV. Collation : — Royal octavo, pp. x.xiv + 619. The Frontispiece is a Portrait of Wordsworth, engraved by W. Finden from a Bust by Sir Francis Chantrey. Preceding the Q 226 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. printed title-page is an engraved title, including a picture of Rydal Mount engraved by W. Finden. For this edition Wordsworth again thoroughly revised the text of his poems, and a number of pieces made their first appearance in its pages. The book was stereotyped, and reprints constantly appeared up to quite recent years. The latest issues bore the imprint of Messrs. Ward, Lock and Co. To the issue of 185 1 The Prelude was added, and in the issue of 1869 a series of additional poems were included, the collation being ultimately extended to pp. xxiv + 704. In 1849 the portrait engraved by Finden was cancelled and replaced by a fresh vignette. The Finden picture of Rydal Mount was also removed, and replaced by a new illustration of the same house engraved by T. H. Ellis after a picture by T. Creswick, R.A. Issued in dark brown cloth boards, gilt lettered. (7) The / Poetical Works / of / William Wordsworth, D.C.L., / Poet Laureate, etc. etc. / In Six Volumes / Vol. I. [Vol. 11. &c.~\ / A New Pklition. / London : / Edward IMoxon, Dover Street. / MDCCCXLIX. Collation : — Duodecimo. Vol. I. pp. X + 299. Vol. IV. pp. xvi + 293. „ II. „ xii + 327. „ V. „ viii + 307- „ III. „ XV + 271. „ VI. „ V + 301. Vols. I and II are dated 1849; Vols. IV— VI are dated 1850. Reprinted, from stereotype plates, in 1851, 1853, and 1856. COLLECTED EDITIONS. 227 Issued in dark green cloth boards, gilt lettered. Also issued bound in three volumes, in bright blue cloth boards gilt lettered, and with gilt edges. (8) The / Poetical Works / of / William Wordsworth. / In Six Volumes. / Vol. I. \^Vol. II. &c:\ / A New Edition. / London : / Edward Moxon, Dover Street. / 1857. Collation : — Foolscap octavo. Vol. I. pp. xii + 362. Vol. IV. pp. xvi + 395. II. „ xii + 377. „ V. „ viii + 368. „ III. „ xii + 368. „ VI. „ vii + 454. Reprinted, from stereotype plates, in 1864, 1870, 1S74, 1876, 1879, 1881, and 1S82. The reprint of 1870 was styled The Centenary Edition. In this edition of 1857 the Notes dictated by Words- worth to Miss Fenwick were for the first time prefixed to the various poems. Unfortunately the poet's memory at the time he dictated these Notes was failing him, and the facts given cannot at all times be implicitly relied upon. Issued in dark green cloth boards, gilt lettered. (9) The Centenary Edition. / The / Poetical Works / of / William Wordsworth. / In Six Volumes. / Vol. I. [Vol. II. erV.] / A New and Complete Annotated Edition. / {^Publis/iei's device] / London : / E. Moxon, Son, & Co., Dover Street. / 1870. 228 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. Collation : — Foolscap octavo. Vol. I. pp. xii + 362. Vol. IV. pp. xvi + 395. II. „ xii + 377. „ V. „ viii + 368. „ III. „ xii + 368. „ VI. „ vii + 454. Each volume contains an engraved Frontispiece, that to Vol. i being a portrait of the poet. Issued in dark green cloth boards, gilt lettered. (10) 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. / Vol. I. / Poetical and F^thical. [^Vol. II. Aisthetical and Literary, Vol. III. Critical and Ethical^ / London : Edward Moxon, Son, and Co. / i Amen Corner, Paternoster Row. / 1876. / All rights reserved. Collation : — Demy octavo. Vol. I. pp. xxxix + 360. II. „ iii + 347. „ III. „ xii. + 516. There were also 112 special copies upon Large Paper, with Illustrations. Issued in dark green cloth boards, gilt lettered. COLLECTED ED LT IONS. 229 (II) The / Poetical Works / of / William W^ordsworth / Edited by / William Knight, LL.D., / Professor of Moral Philosophy, St. Andrews. / Floral orna- iue7if\ I Volume First [Volume Second, dr'r.] / Edinburgh: / William Paterson / MDCCCLXXXII. Collation : — Demy octavo. Vol. I. pp. Ixxxiii + 313 + ii.* Vol. V. pp. vii -f 434. „ II. „ viii + 396. Vol. VI. pp. xii + 379. „ III. „ vii + 424. „ VII. „ xvi + 400+ i. „ IV. „ viii + 387. „ VIII. „ xi + 435. * P ii. is niisnunibered x. With the exception of the last, each volume has an engraved Frontispiece. Vols, i — ii are dated 1882; Vols, iii— iv are dated 18S3 ; Vols, v — vi are dated 1884; Vol. vii is dated 1885; and Vol. viii is dated 1886. Issued in bright blue cloth boards, gilt lettered. (12) The / Complete Poetical Works / of / William Wordsworth / With an Introduction by / John Morley / London / Macmillan and Co / and New York / 1888 / All rights reserved. Collation : — Crown octavo, pp. Ixvii + 928, with Portrait- Frontispiece. 230 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. Reprinted in 1889, 1890, 1891, 1893, and under later dates. In this edition The Recluse, the copyright of which was the property of the pubHshers, was inckided for the first time. (13) The Poetical Works of / William Wordsworth / Edited with Memoir by / Edward Dowden / In Seven Volumes / \^Publishers device] / Vol. I. [^Vol. II. &c.] I London / George Bell & Sons, York St., Covent Garden / New York: 112, Fourth Avenue/ 1892. Collation : — Foolscap octavo. Vol. I. pp. Ixxiv + 408. Vol. IV. pp. xii + 387. II. „ vii + 344. „ V. „ X + 366. „ III. „ XV 4- 476. „ VI. „ vii + 387. Vol. VII. pp. V -f 402. The first volume has as Frontispiece a Portrait of Wordsworth. Vols, i — iii are dated 1892. Vols, iv — -vii are dated 1893. Issued in bright red cloth boards, gilt lettered. (14) The Poems / of / William Wordsworth / With Introduction and Notes / Edited by / Thomas Hutchinson, M.A. / [Ar;us of the University'] j London : Henry Frowde / Oxford University COLLECTED EDITIONS. 231 Press, Amen Corner, E.G. / New York : ;^^ West 32nd Street / Toronto: 25—27 Richmond Street West / Melbourne : Cathedral BuikHngs / 1895. Collation : — Crown octavo, pp. xxxii + 986, with Portrait- Frontispiece. Issued in dark green cloth boards, gilt lettered. This is the most complete and trustworthy edition of Words- worth's Poetical ^Vorks as yet prepared. It does not, however, include The Recluse., which is the exclusive property of Messrs. Macmillan & Co. Reprinted in 1904, 1908, 191 1, and under other and later dates. (15) The Poetical Works / of / William Wordsworth / Edited by / William Knight / Vol. I ^VoL II, cirV. / \^Vigriette\ London / Macmillan and Co., Ltd. / New York: ^L^cmillan & Co. / 1896 / All rights reserved. Collation : — Globe octavo. Vol. I. pp. Ixiv + 337. Vol. V. pp. V + 399. II. „ X + 438. „ VI. ., xi + 396. „ III. „ vi + 406. „ VII. „ xvii + 4'6. „ IV. „ ix + 2S3. „ VIII. „ xxiii + 467. Each volume is furnished with a Portrait-Frontispiece. Issued in deep crimson cloth boards, gilt lettered. 232 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. (i6) Prose Works \ oi \ William Wordsworth / Edited by William Knight / Vol. I IVoL 11^ / IVigiiette] \ London / Macmillan and Co., Ltd. / New York : The Macmillan Co. / 1896 / All rights reserved. Collation : — Globe octavo. Vol. I. pp. XV + 322. „ II. „ ix + 405. Each volume contains a Portrait-Frontispiece. Issued in deep crimson cloth boards, gilt lettered. Note: — The so-called Prose Writings of Wordsworth, Edited by William Knight, and published by Walter Scott, Ltd., in [1893] i^ merely a selection from Wordsworth's Letters, Prefaces, Notes, &c. (17) Letters of the / Wordsworth Family / From 1787 to 1855 / Collected and Edited / By / William Knight / In Three Volumes / Volume I [Vohtiue 11^ &c^ J Boston and London / Ginn and Com- pany, Publishers / 1907. Collation : — Globe octavo. Vol. I. pp. xxxiii + 542, with Portrait-Frontis- piece of Wordsworth. Vol. II. pp. xxix -f 509, with Frontispiece Dove Cottage. Vol. III. pp. xxxi -1- 498, with Frontispiece Rydal IlloNut. Issued in deep crimson cloth boards, gilt lettered. COLLECTED EDITIONS. 233 (18) The Poems of / William Wordsworth / Edited / With an Introduction / and Notes by / Nowell Charles Smith, M.A. / Late Fellow of New College, and formerly / Fellow of Magdalen College, Ox- ford / In Three Volumes / Vol. I ^Vol. II. &c:\ \ W^ith a Frontispiece / Methuen and Co. / 36 Essex Street, W.C. / London. Collation : — Demy octavo. Vol. I. pp. Ixxii + 547, with Portrait-Frontis- piece of Wordsworth. Vol. II. pp. xix + 551, with Frontispiece, 7?j'<7'^?/ Mount in the time of WordsivortJi. Vol. III. pp. viii -I- 616, with Frontispiece, In- terior of Dove Cottage, Grasmere. The title-pages are undated. The edition was published in 190S. Issued in olive-green buckram boards, gilt lettered. PART IV. WORDSWORTHIANA : COMPLETE VOLUMES OF BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM. • M^iiiMf j> ; ^»^w :. u jj O Lj».i v.Jw^ ; » »4ji-^^'-^ 'aim 1: ' 'mPwilH m^'^ ■'•■'" -^■^■■-^w y'gca Trees, lines 14- PART IV. WORDSWORTH I ANA : COMPLETE VOLUMES OF BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM. (I) The Simpliciad ; / A Satirico-Didactic / Poem. / Containing / Hints for the Scholars of the / New School, / Suggested by Horace's Art of Poetry, / and improved by a Contemplation of the works / of / The First Masters. / \_Quotations\ \ London : / Printed for John Joseph Stockdale, / No. 41, Pall Mall. / 1808. Collation: — Foolscap octavo, j^p. 51. Issued in red printed paper wrappers, with untrimmed edges. The Simpliciad is a clever Satire, after the manner of The Dunciad and English Bards and Scotch Reviezvers, upon the early writings of Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Southey. The pamphlet is ex- tremely uncommon. There is a copy in the British Museum, and another in the Manchester Reference Library. The only other example I have seen is in the possession of Mr. Herbert T. Butler. 240 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDS WORTH. (2) Peter Bell. / A / Lyrical Ballad. / '' I do not affirm that I am the real Simon Pure!' / Bold Stroke for a Wife. / London : / Printed for Taylor and Hessey, / 93, Fleet Street. / 18 19. Collation : — Demy octavo, pp. 29. Issued in plain drab paper wrappers, with untrimmed cdc^es. A Second and a Third Edition appeared in the same year. This satire upon Wordsworth is not, as might have been sup- posed, a parody of the latter's I'e/er Bell. It was the work of John Hamilton Reynolds, who, at the time he composed it, had in all probability not yet become acquainted with Wordsworth's verses. Shelley joined in the chorus, excited apparently by the stanza in Wordsworth's poem afterwards cancelled [ " Is it a party in a parlour'" ]. This he employed as a motto for the title-page of a poem of his own, to which he gave the title Peter Bell tlie Third. By Miching Mallecho, Esq. The poem was duly for- warded to Leigh Hunt for publication on Nov. 2Jid, 18 19. [Garnett's Relics of S/ielley, 1862, pp. 103 — 104. J However, Hunt stayed his hand, and Peter Bell the Third ultimately made a posthumous appearance under the editorship of Mary Shelley. (3) The / Dead Asses / A Lyrical Ballad / Miserandae sortis Aselli. / Ovid / London / Printed for Smith and Elder / Fenchurch-Street. / 18 19. Collation :— Demy octavo, pp. 24. Issued stitched, and without wrappers. WORDSWORTITIANA. 241 (4) Benjamin / the / Wagg-oner, / A Ryghte merrie and conceitede Tale in Verse. / A Fragment. / " Totigues in Trees, \ Books in the running Brooks, Sermons in Stones, / And good in every thinly / London : / Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, / Paternoster Row, / 1819. Collation : — Demy octavo, pp. 96. Issued in plain drab paper wrappers, with untrimmed edges. (5) The / Poetry of Wordsworth. / Extracted from / The Wesleyan- Methodist Magazine. / London : / Printed for Private Circulation, / By James Nichols, Hoxton-Square. / MDCCCL. Collation : — Demy octavo, pp. 27. Issued in plain drab-coloured paper wrappers, with trimmed odges. (6) Memoirs / of / William Wordsworth, / Poet- Laureate, D.C.L. / By / Christopher Wordsworth, D.D. / Canon of Westminster. / In Two V^olumes. / Vol. i. \]'"ol. //.] / London: / Edward Moxon, Dover Street. / 185 1. 243 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. Collation : — Demy octavo. Vol. i. pp. xii + 457, with an Engraved Portrait of Wordsworth as Frontis]3iece. Vol. ii. pp. viii + 524, with an Engraved Portrait of Dora Wordsworth [Mrs. Edward Ouillinan] as Frontispiece, and an inserted List of Errata for both volumes. Issued in dark green cloth boards, gilt lettered. (7) Memoirs / of / William Wordsworth, / Compiled from Authentic Sources ; / with / Numerous Quotations from his Poems, / Illustrative of his Life and Character. / By January Searle, / Author of " Life, Character, and Genius of Ebenezer Elliott," / " Leaves from Sherwood Forest," etc. / London : Partridge & Oakey, Paternoster Row. / MDCCCLII. Collation: — Crown octavo, pp. 312. Issued in cloth boards of various colours, gilt lettered. (8) An Essay / on the / Poetry of Wordsworth. / \Monogram'\ / Liverpool : Edward Howell, Church Street. / London : Whittaker & Co., Ave-Maria Lane. / 1853. Collation : — Duodecimo, pp. 72. Issued in dark green limp cloth, gilt lettered. U'ORDSWORTHIANA. 243 (9) The / Genius of Wordsworth / Harmonized with / The Wisdom and Integrity /of/ His Reviewers. / By the late John Wright, / Author of / "Poetry Sacred and Profane." / London : / Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. / 1853. Collation : — Demy octavo, pp. iv + 130. Issued in bright bhie cloth boards, gilt lettered. (10) William Wordsworth ; / A / Biography. / By / Edwin Paxton Hood. / London : / W. & V . G. Cash, 5, Bishopsgate W^ithout. / Edinburgh : John Menzies. / Dublin: Hodges & Smith. / 1856. Collation : — Large duodecimo, printed in half-sheets, pp. xii + 508. Issued in dark blue cloth boards, gilt lettered. Catalogue / of / the varied and valuable / His- torical, Poetical, Theological and Miscellaneous / Library / of the late venerated Poet- Laureate, / William Wordsworth, Esquire, D.C.L., / last, not least, of the line of / Lake Minstrels / / Three Thousand Volumes / / Which / will be Sold by Auction / by Mr. John Burton. / (Of Preston.) / At that haunt of hallowed Memories / = 44 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. Rydal Mount, near Ambleside, / Windermere, / on Tuesday the 19th, Wednesday the 20th, and / Thursday the 21st, days of July, 1859 ; / at Eleven O'clock 'fore noon each day ; — / In pursuance of Instructions from the Executors. Collation : — Demy octavo, pp. iv + 60. Issued stitched, and without wrappers. The Catalogue was reprinted in full in Transactiotis of the Wordsivorth Society, No. vi, pp. 197 — 257. The books included in this Sale were such as remained after the surviving members of the Wordsworth family had selected such as they individually elected to retain. Hence the printed Catalogue does not give a complete list of the poet's books, and fails to afford reliable evidence of the character of his Library. (12) Our English Lakes, / Mountains, and Waterfalls, / as seen by / William Wordsworth. / Photographi- cally Illustrated. / [^Quotation fj'ovi ' The Ex- cursion'' ^\ London: / A. W. Bennett, 5, Bishops- gate Without. / 1864. Collation: — Foolscap quarto, pp. xii 4- 191. The volume is illustrated by thirteen Photographs, together with a facsimile of Wordsworth's handwriting. Issued in bright magenta-coloured cloth boards, lettered and ornamented in ijold. WORDS IVORTHI ANA. 245 (13) Recollections / of a / Tour made in Scotland / a.d. 1803 / By Dorothy Wordsworth. / Edited by J. C. Shairp, LL. D. / Principal of the United College of St. Salvator and / St. Leonard, St. Andrews. / Edinburgh : / Edmonston and Douglas. / 1874. / All rights reserved. Collation : — Crown octavo, pp. xliv + 316 + 1. Issued in brown cloth boards, gilt lettered. A Secofjd Edition appeared in the same }'ear, and a Third Edition in 1894. These Recollections were reprinted in Joii7-nals of Dorothy Words- worth, 1897, Vol. i, pp. 159 — 255, and Vol. ii, pp. i — 150. (14) Wordsworth. / A Biographic /Esthetic Study. / By / George H. Calvert. / Boston : / Lee and Shepard, Publishers. / New York : / Charles T. Dillingham. / 1878. Collation : — Foolscap octavo, pp 232 Issued in bright green cloth boards, gilt lettered. (15) The / English Lake District / As interpreted in the / Poems of Wordsworth / By / William Knight / Professor of Moral Philosophy and Political Economy in / the LIniversity of St. Andrews / Edinburgh / David Douglas / 1878. 246 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. Collation : — Crown octavo, pp. xxiv + 248. Issued in red cloth boards, lettered in black. Also a Second Editioii Revised and Enlarged, Edinburgh 1891, pp. viii + xvi + 270, with Portrait-Frontispiece. Also a Third Edition, Edinburgh 1904, pp. xviii + 270 -1- i page oi jVoies, with Portrait-Frontispiece. (16) W^illiam Wordsworth : / A short study of his / Life and Work / To which are added / Remarks upon the system of Theology / as expressed in his writings. / By James Henry Nelson / ''And own that Art, triuniphaut over strife / And pain, hath poivers to Eternity endeared^ / Manchester : / Printed for the Author / 1881. Collation : — Foolscap octavo, pp. 32. Issued in cream-coloured printed paper wrappers, with trimmed edges. (17) On the / Platonism / of / Wordsworth. / xA. Paper read to the Wordsworth Society, July 19th, 1881. / By J. H. Shorthouse, / Author of "John Inglesant ; A Romance." / Birmingham : / Cornish Brothers, T,y, New Street. Collation :— Demy octavo, pp. 17. Issued in pale blue [printed paper wrappers, with trimmed edg'es. WORDSWORTHIANA. 247 (18) Wordsworth / By / F. W. H. Myers / {Quotation'] \ London: / Macmillan and Co. / 1881. / The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved. Collation -.—Crown octavo, pp. vii + 184. Issued in bright red cloth boards, with trimmed edges, lettered in black. Later editions were issued in white linen boards, with paper label and untrimmed edges, as well as in red cloth boards uniform with the first edition. (19) William Wordsworth : / A Biographical Sketch, / with / Selections from his Writings in / Poetry and Prose. / By / Andrew James Symington, / F.R.S.N.A. / Vol. I. \_VoL II.'] / {Publishers' device] I London : / Blackie & Son, 49 & 50 Old Bailey, E.C. / Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Dublin. / 1881. Collation: — Foolscap octavo: Vol. i. pp. xii + 13 — 256; Vol. ii, pp. X + II — 256. Issued in pale green cloth boards, lettered in black and gold. (20) Transactions / of / The Wordsworth Society / Edited by / The Hon. Secretary [i.e. Professor William Knight.] 248 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDS IVORril. No. I, 1882, Demy octavo, pp. i — 16. „ 2, 1882, „ „ 17—44- „ 3, 1^83, „ „ 45—76. The above 3 Parts were issued in mottled-grey printed wrappers, with trimmed edges. No. 4, 1S84, Demy octavo, pp. yj — 91, with five photographic Portraits of Wordsworth. „ 5, 1885, „ „ iv+ 132 + 5- „ 6, 1886, „ „ 257, with a pho- tographic Frontis- piece The Borroiv- dale Yews. „ 7, 1886, „ „ 129. „ 8, 1887, „ „ 202. The above 5 Parts were issued in cream-coloured printed paper wrappers, with trimmed edges. (21) Ueber / Wordsworth / und / Walt Whitman. / Zwei Vortriige / gehalten vor dem / Literarischen Verein zu Dresden / von / H. B. Cotterill / und / T. W. Rolleston. / Dresden. / Verlag von Carl Tittmann, / 1S83. Collation : — Demy octavo, pp. 69. Issued in yellow printed paper wrappers, with trimmed edijes. WORDS IVOR THIANA . 249 (22) Studies / in / Wordsworth / Culture and Acquire- ment / Ethics of Tragedy / and other Papers / By / Henry N. Hudson / Boston / Little, Brown, and Company / 1884. Collation : — Crown octavo, pp. vii + 351. Issued in pale pea-green cloth boards, gilt lettered. (23) William W^ordsworth : / The Story of his Life, / with Critical Remarks on his Writings. / By / James Middleton Sutherland. / [^Quotation] / Lon- don : / Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row. / 1887./ All Rights Reserved. Collation : — Crown octavo, pp. xiv -f- 225. Issued in deep claret-coloured cloth boards, gilt lettered. Also a Second Editio/i^ 1892, pp. xiv + 242. ■ (24) A Greenockian's Visit / to / Wordsworth. / From Journals of / Late Reverend Dr. Park of St. Andrews. / Greenock : 18S7. Collation: — Crown octavo, pp. 18. Issued in pale blue-grey paper wrappers, 'with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 250 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. (25) Through the / Wordsworth Country. / By / Harry Goodwin / and / Professor Knioht. / \_Publishers device] j London : / Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co., Paternoster Square. / 1887. Collation: — Quarto, pp. xix + 268, with fifty-six Illustra- tions. Issued in bright green cloth boards, gilt lettered. (26) Wordsworthiana / A Selection / from Papers read to / The Wordsworth Society / Edited by / William Knight / London / Macmillan & Co. /And New York / 1889. Collation: — Crown octavo, pp. xxiv -\- 352. Issued in bright green cloth boards, gilt lettered. (27) The / Life /of/ William Wordsworth / By / William Knight, LL.D., / Professor of Moral Philosophy, St. Andrews. / \^Floral device] / Volume First \yolmne Second, &c.] \ Edinburgh: / William Paterson / MDCCCLXXXIX. Collation : — Demy octavo. Vol. I, pp. xxiv -f 405 -f Errata leaf, with Portrait-Frontispiece of Wordsworth. „ II, „ vi + 431 + Errata leaf. „ III, „ V -f 5 30 + Errata leaf WORDS IVOR Tin A NA. 2 5 r Issued in bright blue cloth boards, gilt lettered. The volumes were notified upon the binding as forming Vols, ix, X, and xi of Wordsworth's Poetical Works \i.e. Knight's Edition, 8 Vols, 1882— 1886]. (28) Wordsworth / An Address / By / Sir Horace Davey, Q.C., M.P., / Read to the / Stockton Literary and Philosophical Society, / on January 8th, 1890. / Stockton-on-Tees : / Printed by John Sharp, 7, Silver Street. / 1890, Collation : — Demy octavo, pp. 24. Issued in pale blue wrappers, with trimmed edges, lettered upon the front. (29) Dove Cottage / Wordsworth's Home from 1800 — 1808 / December 21, 1799 / to / May 1808 / By / Stopford A. Brooke / London / Macmillan and Co. / And New York / 1890 / The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved. Collation : — Crown octavo, pp. 76. Issued in pale grey paper wrappers, with the title-page, enclosed within a rectangular ruled frame, reproduced upon the front, the words Price One Shilling being added at foot below the rule. 253 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. (30) Holiday Studies / of / Wordsworth / By Rivers, Woods, and Alps. / The Wharfe, The Duddon, / and / The Stelvio Pass. / By / Rev. F. A. Malleson, M.A. / Vicar of Broughton-in-Furness, / . . . . Cassell & Company, Limited : / London, Paris & Melbourne. / 1890. Collation : — Large square octavo, pp. x + 115. Issued in paper boards, with white ]:)aper back-label. (31) Wordsworth / in / 1798. / Bristol : / William George's Sons, / Top Corner Park Street, / 1890. Collation : — Demy octavo, pp. 4. Issued without wrappers. This brochure was printed to advertise a Photogravure Repro- duction by Herr Haefstangl, of Munich, of the Portrait of Wordsworth by W. Siiuter, painted at Stowey in 1798. The original oil-painting was at that time, 1890, in the possession of the publishers. (32) Wordsworth : / An Essay. / By / Edward Henry Blakeney, B.A., / Author of / " The Exile's Return, and other Poems," "The Idea of God," etc. / (Reprinted from "The Churchman," November, 1891.) / London: / Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row. / 1 89 1. JVORDSIVORTHIANA. 253 Collation : — Demy octavo, pp. 16. Issued in pale salmon-coloured paper wrappers, with the title-page (enclosed within a single rectangular ruled frame) reproduced upon the front. (33) William Wordsworth / By Elizabeth Wordsworth / Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford / [^Quo- tation from Goethe\ j London / Percival and Co. / 1891. Collation: — Crown octavo, pp. xi + 232. Issued in bright blue cloth boards, gilt lettered. (34) The / Wordsworth Dictionary / of / Persons and Places / With the / Familiar Quotations from his Works / (Including full Index) / And a / Chrono- logically-arranged list of / his best Poems / By / J. R. Tutin / Compiler of " The Bibliography of Wordsworth,"* etc., etc. / Hull / J. R. Tutin / 1891. Collation : — Crown octavo, pp. 216. Issued in dark green cloth boards, gilt lettered. * A brief Bibliographical List appended to the Globe edition of Words- worth's Poetical Works. 254 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. (35) The / Birds of Wordsworth / Poetically, Mytho- logically, and / Comparatively Examined / By / William H. Wintringham / Compiler of " British Birds: Key to the present Classification, 1890"/ London / Hutchinson & Co. / 25, Paternoster Square / 1892. Collation : — Demy octavo, pp. vii + 426. Issued in dark green cloth boards, gilt lettered. Two Hundred and Fifty Copies only were printed. {36) An Index / to the / Animal and Vegetable / Kingdoms / of / Wordsworth / By / J. R. Tutin / Compiler of the "Wordsworth Dictionary," etc. / Hull / J. R. Tutin / 1892. Collation : — Crown octavo, pp. 20. Issued in pale primrose-coloured printed paper wrappers, with trimmed edges. (37) William Wordsworth / Sein Leben / Seine Werke, Seine Zeitgenossen / Von / Marie Gothein. / Band I. YBand IL~\ / Halle a S. / Verlag von Max Niemeyer. / 1893. Collation : — Octavo, Vol. i, pp. xii + 374 ; Vol. ii, pp. vi + 178. U'ORDSWORTHIANA. 255 Issued in pale green printed paper wrappers, with un- trimmed edges. (38) Some Words- / worth Finds ? / Arrang-cd and Introduced by / James Medborough. / London : / At the Unicorn Press, / 211, Gray's Inn Road, W.C. / MDCCCXCV. Collation : — Crown octavo, pp. xxiii + 24. Issued in dark crimson cloth boards, backed with white, and lettered in brown and gold. This book is either a poor joke or a fraud, according to the point of view from which one regards it. Its absurd contents were laughed out of the region of serious consideration by The Pall Mall Gazette, on Saturday, July 13th, 1895. (39) A Reminiscence / of / Wordsworth Day, / Cockermouth, April 7th, 1896. / Edited by / The Rev. H. D. Rawnsley. M.A., / Hon. Canon of Carlisle, / With / Prefatory Notes on Cocker- mouth, / By the Rev. H. J. Palmer, M.A., / Vicar of Christ Church, Cockermouth, / and / An Essay on W^ordsworth, / By The Rev. J. Llewelyn Davies, D.D. / Illustrated by Views of the Memorial Fountain, / The Birth Place and Terrace Walk of the Poet, / And the Grave of the Poet's 2^6 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. Father. / Cockermouth : / Brash Bros., " West Cumberland Times" Printing Works. / 1896. Collation : — Crown octavo, pp. 88 + i, together with four full-page illustrations. Issued in pale green cloth boards, with trimmed edges, lettered in red. (40) Annales de I'Universite de Lyon / La Jeunesse / de / William Wordsworth / 1770 — 1798 / Etude sur le " Prelude " / Par / Emile Legouis / Docteur es Lettres / Maitre de conferences a la Faculte des Lettres de Lyon. / Paris / G. Masson, Editeur / 120, Boulevard Saint-Germain / 1896. Collation : — Royal octavo, pp. viii + 495. Issued in pale green printed paper wrappers, with un- trimmed edges. (41) The Early Life / of / William Wordsworth / 1770— 1798 / A Study of "The Prelude" / By / Emile Legouis / Professor a I'Universite de Lyon / Translated by / J. W. Matthews / With a Pre- fatory Note by Leslie Stephen / [^Publishers device]! London / J. M. Dent & Co, / 67 S. James's St. S.W. & Aldine House E.G. / 1897. WORDSWORTHIANA. 257 Collation : — Demy octavo, pp. xvi + 477, with Portrait- Frontispiece. Issued in dark blue cloth boards, g^lt lettered. (42) Journals / of / Dorothy Wordsworth / Edited by / William Knight / Vol. I YVoL 11^ / [Vignette] / London / Macmillan and Co., Ltd. / New York : The Macmillan Co. / 1897 / All rights reserved. Collation: — Globe octavo : Vol. i, pp. xvii -f 255, with a Portrait - Frontispiece of Dorothy Wordsworth ; Vol. ii, pp. V + 292, with a Portrait-Frontispiece of William Wordsworth. Issued in dark crimson cloth boards, gilt lettered. (43) A Description of the / Wordsworth & Coleridge / Manuscripts in the possession / of Mr. T. Norton Longman. / With Three Facsimile Reproductions. / Edited with Notes by / W. Hale White. / Long- mans, Green, and Co. / 39 Paternoster Row, London, / New York and Bombay. / 1897. Collation : — Quarto, pp. vi -f 'Ji. Wordsworth's poem The Tinker \_\Vho leads a happy life], written in April 1802, first appeared in this volume. It was first reprinted in Nowell Smith's edition of Wordsworth's Poeiiis^ 1908, Vol. iii, pp. 423—424. Issued in mottled-grey paper boards, backed with parch- ment, and gilt lettered. s 258 BrBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. (44) The Age of / Wordsworth / By / C. H. Herford, Litt. D. / Professor of English Literature in the University / College of Wales, Aberystwyth / \PiLblishcrs device] J London / George Bell and Sons / 1897. Collation : — Crown octavo, pp. xxix + 315. Issued in olive-green cloth boards, gilt lettered. (45) Helps to the Study / of / Arnold's Wordsworth / By / Richard Wilson, B.A. (Loud.) / London / Macmillan and Co., Limited / New York : The Macmillan Company / 1897. Collation : — Globe octavo, pp. viii + 88. Issued in bright blue printed paper wrappers, with trimmed edges. (46) A / Primer of Wordsworth / with / A Critical Essay / By / Laurie Magnus, B.A. Oxon. / P"ormerly of Magdalen / Methuen & Co. / 36 Essex Street, W\C. / London / 1897. Collation : — Crown octaxo, pp. viii + 227. Issued in grass-green cloth boards, gilt lettered. / VORDS 1 1'Oi: THIA NA. 2,9 (47) William Wordsworth. / Nach / seiner gemein- verstandlichen Seite dargestellt. / Von / Andreas Baumgartner. / Mit Bild, Zwolf Originalgedichten und ObersetzLingen. / \Piiblishers device\ / Zurich. / Druck und Verlag : Art. Institut Orell fiiszli. / 1897. Collation : — Medium octavo, pp. 1 19, with Portrait-Frontis- piece. Issued in stiff white paper wrappers, s^ilt lettered, with un- trimmed edgfes. (48) An E.xamination of the Charge / of Apostasy against Words- / worth / By / William Hale White / Editor of ' A Description of the Words- worth and Coleridge / Manuscripts in the posses- sion of Mr. T. Norton Longman ' / Longmans, Green, and Co. / 39 Paternoster Row, London / New York and Bombay / 1898 / All rights reserved. Collation : — Crown octavo, pp. vi + 63. Issued in grey-blue paper boards, backed with white, and lettered in red. s 2 26o BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. (49) Wordsworth / and / The Coleridges / With other Memories / Lite>rary and PoHtical / By / ElHs Yarnall / New York / The Macmillan Company / London : Macmillan & Co., Ltd. / 1899 / All rights reserved. Collation : — Demy octavo, pp. x + 331. Issued in dark green cloth boards, gilt lettered. (50) The / Official Catalogue / of / The Contents of / Dove Cottage / Grasmere / Wordsworth's Home / From 1799 to 1808 / and afterwards De Ouincey's Residence / Ambleside : / George Middleton / 1902. Collation : — Foolscap octavo, pp. 34. Issued in pale brown paper wrappers lined with white, with the title-page reproduced upon the front. (51) Wordsworth / By / Walter Raleigh / Author of/ 'Style,' 'The English Novel,' 'Milton,' &c. / London / Edward Arnold / 1903. Collation : — Crown octavo, pp. vi -}- 232. U'ORDSWORTHIANA. 261 Issued in olive-green buckram boards, with white paper back-label. A Second Edition appeared in the same year. (52) William Wordsworth / im Urteile seiner Zeit. / Inaugural-Dissertation / zur Erlangung der Dok- torwlirde / der Philosophischen Fakultat der Universitat Leipzig / Vorgelegt von / Karl Bomig / aus Kamenz i. S. / Borna- Leipzig / Buchdruckerei Robert Noske / 1906. Collation : — Demy octavo, pp. viii -f- 89. Issued in pale blue plain paper wrappers, with untrimmed edges. (53) Through the / Wordsworth Country / A Com- panion to the Lake District / By William Knight / . / With a Frontispiece after the Statue in W^estminster Abbey, / and Sixteen Full Page Illustrations, by / Harry Goodwin / (specially re- engraved for this edition) / {Publishei's device\ / London / Swan Sonnenschein & Co, Ltd. / 1906. Collation :— Crown octavo, pp. xx -f 26S, with a Frontis- piece and sixteen Illustrations. Issued in dull green cloth boards, gilt lettered. 262 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDS IVOR TH. (54) Lectures / on / The Influence of Poetry / and / Wordsworth / By / F. W. Robertson / of Brighton / London / H. R. Allenson, Limited / Racquet Court, Fleet Street, E.C. [1906]. Collation : — Crown octavo, pp. 169. Issued in deep crimson cloth boards, gilt lettered. (55) Booklovers' Booklets / Wordsworth / A Criticism / By / F. W. Robertson / of Brighton / London : H. R. Allenson, Limited / Racquet Court, Fleet Street, E.C. [1907]. Collation : — Post octavo, pp. 58. Issued in deep crimson cloth boards, gilt lettered. The contents of this book consist of the Lecture on Wordsworth included in Lectures 01 tJie Lnfliience of Poetry and Wordsworth, 1906 \ante. No. 54J, less the tv/o opening paragraphs. The Lecture had been prepared as an address to the Members of the Brighton Athenceum on February loth, 1^53, but on account of the ill-health of the Author it was never delivered. The note upon the reverse of the title-page stating that it was delivered is in error. (56) Wordsworth and his / Circle / By / David Watson Rannie, M.A. / Author of " A Student's History of Scotland " / With Twenty Illustrations / . IVO/WS WORTH! ANA. 263 Methuen & Co. / t^6 Essex Street W.C. / Lon- don / [1907]. Collation : — Demy octavo, pp. xii + 360. Issued in bright blue cloth boards, gilt lettered. (57) Wordsworth / An Introduction to his Life & / Works / By / Catharine Punch/ {Quotation f^'ont Mat. Arnold'\ j London / Allman & Son Limited / 67 New Oxford Street W.C. [1907]. Collation : — Post octavo, pp. viii -f 120. Issued in pale green cloth boards, lettered in red. (58) Die Belesenheit / von / William Wordsworth / Von / Dr. K. Lienemann. / Berlin / Mayer und Muller / NW7, Prinz Louis Ferdinandstr. 2. / 1908. Collation : — Demy octavo, pp. ii + 259. Issued in dull grey printed paper wrappers, with untrimmed edges. (59) A Day / with the / Poet Wordsworth / London / Hodder & / Stoughton [1909]. Collation : — -Foolscap quarto, pp. 48, with six Illustrations reproduced in colour. Issued in cream-coloured ornamental paper boards, with a reproduction of the painting by Lewis Baumer illustrating " She zvas a pliantoni of deligtif' upon the front cover. 264 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. (60) William / Wordsworth /His Homes and Haunts / By / S. L. Bensusan / With Twelve Drawings in Crayon by / A. Forestier / and Four Portraits / London : T. C. & E, C. Jack / i6 Henrietta Street, W.C. / and Edinburgh [1910]. Collation : — Square octavo, pp. vii + 80. Issued in dark brown paper boards, gilt lettered, with a portrait of Wordsworth mounted upon the front cover. (61) Words vvorthsh ire /An Introduction to a / Poet's Country Written by Eric / Robertson, M.A., and Illustrated / with Forty-seven Drawings by / Arthur Tucker, R.B.A., and Maps. / yPub- lishers device] j London / Chatto & Windus / MDCCCCXI. Collation : — Demy octavo, pp. xii + 352. Issued in dark blue cloth boards, gilt lettered. (62) A Concordance / to the / Poems of / Words- worth / Edited for the Concordance Society / By / Lane Cooper / Assistant Professor of the English Language and Literature / in Cornell WORDSWORTHIANA. 265 University / London / Smith, Elder & Co., 15, Waterloo Place / 191 1 / All rights reserved. Collation : — Quarto, pp. xiii + 1136. Issued in cloth boards, gilt lettered. (63) Wordsworth / Poet of Nature and Poet of Man / By / E. Hershey Sneath, Ph.D., LL.D. / Professor in Yale University / " Poetjy is the image of man and nature " / Preface to ' Lyrical Ballads ' / Boston and London / Ginn and Company, Pub- lishers / 191 2. Collation : — Demy octavo, pp. x + 320. Issued in light green cloth boards, gilt lettered. (64) Wordsworth / By Rosaline Masson / \_Publishe7's device'] \ London : T. C. & E. C. Jack / 6-] Long- Acre, W.C, and Edinburgh / New York : Dodge Publishing Co. [191 3]. Collation : — Foolscap octavo, pp. 94. Issued in bright green cloth boards, gilt lettered. 266 BIBLIOGRArHY OF JVORDSWORTJl. (65) Coleridge and / Wordsworth / in / The West Country / Their Friendship, Work, and / Surround- ings / By / Professor Knight / Ilkistrated by / Edmund H. New / Elkin Mathews / Cork Street, London / 191 3. Collation : — Demy octavo, pp. xvi + 238. Issued in bright green cloth boards, gilt lettered. (66) Wordsworth / A Lecture / By / George Bed- borough / Letchworth : / Garden City Press Limited / 191 3. Collation : — Crown octavo, pp. 36. Issued in bright green printed paper wrappers, with un- trimmed edges. (67) Wordsworth / & His Poetry / By / William Henry Hudson / Staff Lecturer in Literature to the Uni- versity / Extension Board of the University of London / / London : George G. / Harrap & Company / 3 Portsmouth Street / Kingsway. W.C. MCMXIV. Collation :■ — Crown octavo, pp. 199, with Portrait-Frontis- piece. Issued in light brown cloth boards, gilt lettered. I FORDS 1 1 'OR riJIA NA . 267 (68) Wordsworth's / politische Entwickluno- / von / Felix Guttler / \_Pud/is/iers dcvice\ J Stuttgart 1914 / J. B. Metzlersche Buchhandlung, G. m. b. H. Collation: — Royal octavo, pp. viii + 133. Issued in dull grey printed paper wrappers, with un- trimmed edges. (69) The English Association / Pamphlet No. 30 / Wordsworth's Patriotic Poems and / their Signifi- cance To-day / By / F. S. Boas, LL.D. / December, 1914. Collation : — -Royal octavo, pp. 18. Issued in pale grey printed paper wrappers, with trimmed edges. (70)- Wordsworth's Cosmic Poetry / Reprinted from The Westminster Gazette / 28 December 1914 / The Doves Press [191 5]. By J. T. Cobden-Sanderson. Collation : — Foolscap quarto, pp. 4. Issued in brown printed paper wrappers, with untrimmed ed^res. 268 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORDSWORTH. (71) William / Wordsworth / His Life, Works, and Influence / By George McLean Harper / Pro- fessor in Princeton University . . . / London / John Murray, Albemarle Street, W. / 191 6. Collation : — Deiny octavo : Vol. I, pp. xvi + 441 ; Vol. II, pp. viii + 45 I, with Portraits and other Illustrations. Issued in dull blue cloth boards, gilt lettered. (72) A / Bibliography / of / The Writings in Prose and Verse / of / William Wordsworth / By / Thomas J. Wise / London : / Printed for Private Circulation only / By Richard Clay & Sons, Ltd. / 19 1 6. Collation : — Foolscap quarto, pp. xv -f- 268 + i, with Twenty-four facsimiles of Title-pages and Manu- scripts. Issued in bright red paper boards, lettered across the back, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. One hundred copies were printed for subscribers. Note. A list of Minor Wordsworthiana {^'' Reviav and Magazine Articles in Criticism of Wordsivorth''') is included in Transactions of the IVordsioorth Society, No. 5, pp. 93 — 100. Unfortunately the list is wholly inadequate, and might without difficulty be extended to at least six times its present length. Particular attention should be given to the Introductions contributed by W. M. Rossetti to the [incomplete] JVorks of William IVordszvorth, published by Moxon & Co. in 1870 ; by Matthew Arnold to the selected Poems of Wordsivorth published by Macmillan & Co. in 1879 ; and by Mr. Clement Shorter to Lyrics a7id Sonnets of Wordsivorth, 1892. 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