Volume 8 — A WORDSWORTH BIBLIOGRAPHY
Reading edition
I.—GREAT BRITAIN
I EDITIONS PUBLISHED DURING WORDSWORTH’S LIFETIME
In the Bibliographies by Mr. Tutin and Professor Dowden there are numerous and valuable details as to these editions, which it is unnecessary to reproduce here.—Ed.
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1793. An Evening Walk. An Epistle; in verse. Addressed to a Young Lady, from the Lakes of the North of England. By W. Wordsworth, B. A., of St. John’s, Cambridge. London: printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul’s Church-yard. 4to.
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1793. Descriptive Sketches. In verse. Taken during a pedestrian tour in the Italian, Grison, Swiss, and Savoyard Alps. By W. Wordsworth, B. A., of St. John’s, Cambridge. Loca pastorum deserta atque otia dia.—Lucret. Castella in tumulis—Et longe saltus lateque vacantes.—Virgil. London: printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul’s Churchyard. 4to.
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1798. Lyrical Ballads, with a few other Poems. Bristol: printed by Biggs and Cottle; for T. N. Longman, Paternoster-Row, London. 8vo.
1798. Lyrical Ballads, with a few other Poems. London: printed for J. & A. Arch, Gracechurch Street. 8vo.[431]
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1800. Lyrical Ballads, with other Poems. In two volumes. By W. Wordsworth. Quam nihil ad genium. Papiniane, tuum! Vol. I. Second Edition. [Vol. II.] London: printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, Paternoster-Row, by Biggs and Co., Bristol. 8vo.[432]
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1802. Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and other Poems. In two volumes. By W. Wordsworth. Quam nihil ad genium, Papiniane, tuum! Third Edition. London: printed for T. N. Longman & O. Rees, Paternoster-Row, by Biggs and Cottle, Crane-Court, Fleet-Street. 8vo.[433]
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1805. Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and other Poems. In two volumes. By W. Wordsworth. Quam nihil ad genium, Papiniane, tuum! Fourth Edition. London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, by R. Taylor and Co., 38 Shoe Lane. 8vo.[434]
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1807. Poems, in two volumes, By William Wordsworth, Author of the Lyrical Ballads. Posterius graviore sono tibi Musa loquetur Nostra, dabunt cum securos mihi tempora fructus. Vol. I. [Vol. II.] London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-Row. 12mo.
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1809. Concerning the Relations of Great Britain, Spain, and Portugal, to each Other, and to the Common Enemy, at this Crisis; and specifically as affected by the Convention of Cintra: The whole brought to the test of those principles by which alone the Independence and Freedom of Nations can be Preserved or Recovered. Qui didicit patriae quid debeat;—Quod sit conscripti, quod judicis officium; quae Partes in bellum missi ducis. By William Wordsworth. London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-Row. 8vo.
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1814. The Excursion, being a portion of The Recluse, a Poem. By William Wordsworth. London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row. 4to.[435]
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1815. Poems by William Wordsworth: including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author. With additional Poems, a new Preface, and a Supplementary Essay. In two volumes. Vol. I. [Vol. II.] London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row. 8vo.[436]
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1815. The White Doe of Rylstone; or, The Fate Of the Nortons. A Poem. By William Wordsworth. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, by James Ballantyne and Co., Edinburgh. 4to.[437]
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1816. A Letter to a Friend of Robert Burns: occasioned by an intended republication of the account of the Life of Burns, by Dr. Currie; and of the Selection made by him from his Letters. By William Wordsworth. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row. 8vo.[438]
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1816. Thanksgiving Ode, January 18, 1816. With other short Pieces, chiefly referring to Recent Public Events. By William Wordsworth. London: Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row. 8vo.
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1818. Two Addresses to the Freeholders of Westmoreland. Kendal: Printed by Airy and Bellingham. 8vo.
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1819. Peter Bell, a Tale in Verse, by William Wordsworth. London: Printed by Strahan and Spottiswoode. Printers-Street; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row. 8vo.[439]
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1819. Peter Bell, A Tale in Verse, by William Wordsworth. Second Edition. London: Printed by Strahan and Spottiswoode, Printers-Street; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row. 8vo.
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1819. The Waggoner, a Poem, to which are added, Sonnets. By William Wordsworth. “What’s in a Name?” “Brutus will start a Spirit as soon as Cæsar,” London: Printed by Strahan & Spottiswoode, Printers-Street; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, Paternoster-Row. 8vo.[440]
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1820. The River Duddon, a Series of Sonnets; Vaudracour and Julia: and other Poems. To which is annexed, a Topographical Description of the Country of the Lakes, in the North of England. By William Wordsworth. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row. 8vo.[441]
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1820. The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth. In four volumes. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row. 12mo.[442]
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1820. The Excursion, being a portion of The Recluse, A Poem. By William Wordsworth. Second Edition. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row. 8vo.
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1822. Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820. By William Wordsworth. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row. 8vo.
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1822. Ecclesiastical Sketches. By William Wordsworth. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row. 8vo.[443]
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1822. A Description of the Scenery of the Lakes in the North of England. Third Edition (now first published separately), with additions, and illustrative remarks upon the Scenery of the Alps. By William Wordsworth. London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row. 12mo.[444]
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1827. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. In five volumes. London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Paternoster-Row. 12mo.[445]
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1828. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Complete in one volume. Paris: Published by A. and W. Galignani, No. 18, Rue Vivienne. 8vo.[446]
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1831. Selections from the Poems of William Wordsworth, Esq., chiefly for the use of Schools and Young Persons. London: Edward Moxon, 64 New Bond Street. 12mo.[447]
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1832. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. A new Edition. In four volumes. London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, Paternoster-Row. 8vo.[448]
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Selections from the Poems of William Wordsworth, Esq., chiefly for the use of Schools and young persons. A New Edition. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. MDCCCXXXIV.
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The Memorial Lines “Written after the Death of Charles Lamb” were issued privately, without title or date, probably late in 1835, or early in 1836. 8vo. pp. 7.
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1835. Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems. By William Wordsworth.
Poets … dwell on earth To clothe whate’er the soul admires and loves; With language and with numbers.—Akenside.
London: printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, Paternoster-Row; and Edward Moxon, Dover Street. 12mo.
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1835. A Guide through the District of the Lakes in the North of England, with a Description of the Scenery, &c. For the use of Tourists and Residents. Fifth Edition, with considerable additions. By William Wordsworth. Kendal: published by Hudson and Nicholson; and in London by Longman & Co., Moxon, and Whittaker and Co. 12mo.
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1836. Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems. By William Wordsworth.
Poets … dwell on earth To clothe whate’er the soul admires and loves; With language and with numbers.—Akenside.
Second Edition. London: printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, Paternoster-Row; and Edward Moxon, Dover Street. 8vo.[449]
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The Excursion. A Poem. By William Wordsworth. A New Edition. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. MDCCCXXXVI. 8vo.[450]
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. A New Edition. In six volumes. Vol. I. (Vol. II.-VI.) London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. MDCCCXXXVI.-MDCCCXXXVII. Fcap. 8vo.[451]
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The Sonnets of William Wordsworth. Collected in one volume, with a few additional ones, now first published. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. MDCCCXXXVIII. 8vo.[452]
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Yarrow Revisited; and other Poems. By William Wordsworth. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. MDCCCXXXIX. 18mo.[453]
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Poems, chiefly of early and late years; including The Borderers, a Tragedy. By William Wordsworth. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. MDCCCXLII. 8vo.[454]
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1843. Select Pieces from the Poems of William Wordsworth. London: James Burns. Sq. 12mo.[455]
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1844. Kendal and Windermere Railway. Two Letters, re-printed from the Morning Post. Revised, with additions. Kendal: printed by R. Branthwaite and Son.
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1845. The Poems of William Wordsworth, D.C.L., Poet Laureate, etc. etc. A New Edition. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. MDCCCXLV. Royal 8vo.[456]
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1847. Ode, performed in the Senate-House, Cambridge, on the sixth of July, M.DCCC.XLVII. At the first commencement after the Installation of his Royal Highness the Prince Albert, Chancellor of the University. Cambridge: printed at the University Press. 4to.
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1847. Ode on the installation of His Royal Highness Prince Albert as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. By William Wordsworth, Poet Laureate. London: Printed, by permission, by Vizetelley Brothers & Co. Published by George Bell, Fleet Street. 4to.
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, D.C.L., Poet Laureate, etc. etc. In six volumes. A New Edition. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. MDCCCXLIX.-MDCCCL. 12mo.[457]
II EDITIONS OF THE POEMS, AND OF SELECTIONS FROM THEM, PUBLISHED AFTER THE POET’S DEATH.
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1850. The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet’s Mind; an Autobiographical Poem; by William Wordsworth. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. Demy 8vo.
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1851. The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet’s Mind; an Autobiographical Poem; By William Wordsworth. Second Edition. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. Fcap. 8vo.
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1855. Select Pieces from the Poems of William Wordsworth. London: Edward Moxon. Sq. 12mo.
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1857. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. In six volumes. A new Edition. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. 8vo.[458]
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The Earlier Poems of William Wordsworth. Corrected as in the latest Editions. With Preface, and Notes showing the text as it stood in 1815. By William Johnston. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. Fcap. 8vo.
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1859. The Deserted Cottage. By William Wordsworth. Illustrated with twenty-one designs by Birket Foster, J. Wolf, and John Gilbert, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. London: George Routledge and Co., Farringdon Street. New York: 18 Beekman Street. Small 4to.[459]
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Poems of William Wordsworth. Selected and Edited by Robert Aris Willmott, Incumbent of Bear Wood. Illustrated with one hundred designs by Birket Foster, J. Wolf, and John Gilbert, Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. London: George Routledge and Co., Farringdon Street. New York: 18 Beekman Street, MDCCCLIX. Small 4to.
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The White Doe of Rylstone; or, the Fate of the Nortons. By William Wordsworth. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. Small 4to.[460]
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Passages from “The Excursion,” by William Wordsworth, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Agnes Fraser. London: published by Paul and Dominic Colnaghi and Co., publishers to Her Majesty, 13 and 14 Pall Mall East. Oblong 4to.[461]
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The White Doe of Rylstone; or, the Fate of the Nortons. With Illustrations by Birket Foster, and others. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts.
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Pastoral Poems, by William Wordsworth. London: Sampson, Low, etc.
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1864. The Select Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Copyright Edition. In two volumes. Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz.[462]
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1865. A Selection from the Works of William Wordsworth, Poet Laureate. Moxon’s Miniature Poets. Selected and arranged by Francis Turner Palgrave. Published in London: Edward Moxon & Co., Dover Street. Sq. 12mo.[463]
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The Poems of William Wordsworth. A new Edition. London: Edward Moxon & Co., Dover Street.
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1867. The White Doe of Rylstone; or, the Fate of the Nortons. By William Wordsworth. London: Bell and Daldy, 186 Fleet Street. 8vo.[464]
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1869. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. A new Edition. London: Edward Moxon, Son, & Co., 44 Dover Street, Piccadilly.
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1870. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Edited, with a critical Memoir, by William Michael Rossetti. Illustrated by artistic etchings by Edwin Edwards. London: E. Moxon, Son, & Co., Dover Street. Small 4to.
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Edited, with a critical Memoir, by William Michael Rossetti. Illustrated by Henry Dell. London: E. Moxon, Son, & Co., Dover Street. 8vo.[465]
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1876. The Prose Works of William Wordsworth. For the first time collected, with additions from unpublished manuscripts. Edited, with Preface, Notes and Illustrations, by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart, St. George’s, Blackburn, Lancashire. In three volumes. Volume I. Political and Ethical. Volume II. Æsthetical and Literary. Volume III. Critical and Ethical. London: Edward Moxon, Son, and Co., 1 Amen Corner, Paternoster Row. 8vo.
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1879. Poems of Wordsworth, chosen and edited by Matthew Arnold. London: Macmillan and Co. 18mo.[466]
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Edited by William Knight, LL.D., Professor of Moral Philosophy, St. Andrews. Edinburgh: William Paterson. MDCCCLXXXII. [MDCCCLXXXII.— MDCCCLXXXVI.] 8 vols. Demy 8vo.[467]
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Selections from Wordsworth. Edited, with an Introductory Memoir, by J. S. Fletcher. London: Alex. Gardner, 12 Paternoster Row, and Paisley. MDCCCLXXXIII. Fcap. 8vo. Parchment.[468]
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1883. Winnowings from Wordsworth. Edited by J. Robertson. Simpkin & Co. 1883.
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The Brothers, and other Poems Founded on the Affections. 18mo. Collins.
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1884. The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets. By William Wordsworth. With ten Etchings by R. S. Chattock, The Fine Art Society, 148 New Bond Street, London. Folio.
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The Sonnets of William Wordsworth. Collected in one volume, with an Essay on The History of the English Sonnet by Richard Chenevix Trench, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin, Chancellor of the Order of St. Patrick. London: Suttaby and Co., Amen Corner. MDCCCLXXXIV. 8vo.[469]
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Selections from Wordsworth. By Misses Wordsworth. London: Kegan Paul, & Co. April 8, 1884.
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The Wordsworth Birthday Book. Edited by Adelaide and Violet Wordsworth. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co.
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Birthday Texts From Wordsworth. Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo. N. D.
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The Golden Poets. “Wordsworth.” London: Marcus Ward & Co. N. D.
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1885. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, With a Prefatory Notice, Biographical and Critical. By Andrew James Symington. London: Walter Scott, 14 Paternoster Square and Newcastle-on-Tyne. 16mo.[470]
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Wordsworth’s Excursion. The Wanderer. Edited, with Notes, etc., by H. H. Turner. London: Rivingtons. N. D.
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Ode on Immortality, and Lines on Tintern Abbey. Illustrated. Cassell. 4to.
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Tintern Abbey, Odes, and the Happy Warrior. 8vo. Chambers. (Republished in 1892.)
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1887. Through the Wordsworth Country. By Harry Goodwin and Professor Knight. London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co., Paternoster Square. Imperial 8vo.[471]
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Wordsworth and Keats, Selections. In 16mo. M. Ward.
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1888. The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. With an Introduction by John Morley. With a Portrait. London: Macmillan & Co. Crown 8vo.
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1888. Selections from Wordsworth. By William Knight, and other Members of the Wordsworth Society. With Preface and Notes. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., 1 Paternoster Square. MDCCCLXXXVIII. Large Crown 8vo.[472]
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1888. The Recluse. By William Wordsworth. London: Macmillan and Co.[473]
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1888. The Poetical Works of Wordsworth. With Memoir, Explanatory Notes, etc. London: Griffith, Farren, & Co., Newbury House, Charing Cross Road.
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Prose Writings of Wordsworth: Selected and Edited, with an Introduction, by William Knight. London: Walter Scott. No date.
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1889. We are Seven. Illustrated by Agnes Gardner King. 16mo.
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1891. Lyrics and Sonnets of Wordsworth. With Introduction and Bibliography. By Clement R. Shorter. Scott Library. 32mo.
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Edited, with Memoir, by Edward Dowden. London: George Bell & Sons. 1892-1893.[474]
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1891. Lyrical Ballads, etc. A reprint of the original edition of 1798. Edited by Edward Dowden. London: David Nutt. 16mo.
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1891. The White Doe of Rylstone, with the Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle. Edited, with introduction and notes, by William Knight. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press.
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Edinburgh: W.P. Nimmo, Hay, and Mitchell. 1892.
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Wordsworth for the Young. With notes by J.C. Wright. 8vo. 1893.
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1895. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, with introductions and notes. Edited by Thomas Hutchinson, M.A. London: Henry Froude, Oxford University Press Warehouse, Amen Corner, E.C.
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The Penny Poets, in “The Masterpiece Library.” Wordsworth. Nos. XXXII. and XXXVII.
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1896. Lyric Poems. Edited by Ernest Rhys. 8vo. London: Dent & Co.
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The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet’s Mind. 18mo. London: Dent & Co.
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“The Lansdowne Poets” included one of Wordsworth. The “Albion” edition was published by Messrs. Froude, Oxford University Press.[475]
III ESTIMATES OF WORDSWORTH IN VARIOUS BOOKS[476]
1811. Seward, Anna. Letters written between the Years 1784 and 1807. Edited by A. Constable, vol. vi. No. 66.[477] 8vo. Edinburgh.
1817. Coleridge, S. T. Biographia Literaria; or, Biographical Sketches of my Literary Life and Opinions. 2 vols. 8vo. London: Rest Fenner. Second Edition. London: William Pickering. 1847. Bohn’s Standard Library. 1866.
Coleridge, S. T. In The Friend, passim. Second Edition. London: Rest Fenner.
Hazlitt, William. The Round Table: a Collection of Essays on Literature, Men, and Manners. Observations on Mr. Wordsworth’s Poem, “The Excursion.” 12mo. London: Templeman. Also in Bohn’s Standard Library. Edited by W. Carew Hazlitt. Pp. 158-176. London. 1871.
1818. Hazlitt, William. Lectures on the English Poets. 8vo. London: Taylor and Hessey. Also in Bohn’s Standard Library. 1870.
1819. Hazlitt, William. Political Essays, with Sketches of Public Characters. My First Acquaintance with Poets. 8vo. London: Templeman. Also in Winterslow, pp. 255-277. Bohn’s Standard Library. 1872.
1823. Soligny, Victoire De, Count, pseud. (i.e. Peter George Patmore, father of the late Coventry Patmore). Letters on England, vol. ii. pp. 7-19. 8vo. London: Henry Colburn and Co.
1824. Landor, W. S. Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen. Southey and Porson, i. 39. 8vo. London: Taylor and Hessey. New Edition, i. 11, 68, 182. London: Edward Moxon. 1846. New Edition, iv. 18. London: Chapman and Hall. 1876.
1825. Hazlitt, William. The Spirit of the Age; or, Contemporary Portraits. 8vo. London: Henry Colburn and Co.; Fourth Edition. George Bell and Sons. 1886.
1827. Hone, William. The Table Book. Wordsworth, ii. 275. 8vo. London: Hunt and Clarke.
Coleridge, S. T. Table Talk. July 21, 1832; July 31, 1832; February 16, 1833.
1833. Montgomery, James. Lectures on Poetry and General Literature, delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831. Wordsworth’s Theory of Poetic Diction, pp. 134-141. 8vo. London: Longmans.
1836. Conversations at Cambridge. The Poet Wordsworth and Professor Smythe, pp. 235-252. 8vo. London: John W. Parker.
1837. Cottle, Joseph. Early Recollections; chiefly relating to the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, during his long Residence in Bristol. 2 vols. 8vo. London: Longman, Rees and Co.
1838. Chorley, H. F. The Authors of England. 4to. London. New Edition, revised (by G. B.) London. 1861.
Hare, Julius C. and Augustus W. Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Second Series. 8vo. London: Taylor and Walton. The Dedication of this edition is to William Wordsworth. New Edition, in one volume. Macmillan and Co. 1866.
1840. Hunt, Leigh. The Seer. “Wordsworth and Milton,” pp. 5-53. London: Edward Moxon.
Ruskin, John. Modern Painters (1843-1860), passim in all the five volumes. London: George Allen.
1843. Chambers, Robert. Cyclopædia of English Literature. Wordsworth, ii. 322-333. Fourth Edition, revised by Robert Carruthers, LL.D. 1888. 8vo. Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers.
1844. Horne, R. H. A New Spirit of the Age. William Wordsworth and Leigh Hunt, vol. i. pp. 307-332. 12mo. London: Smith, Elder and Co.
Keble, John. Praelectiones Academicae Oxonii habitae, annis MDCCCXXXII.-MDCCCXLI., tom. ii. pp. 615, 789. 8vo. Oxonii: J. H. Parker.
1845. Gilfillan, George. A Gallery of Literary Portraits. 12mo. Edinburgh: Groombridge.
Craik, E. L. Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England. Vol. vi., pp. 114-139. London: Charles Knight.
1847. Howitt, William. Homes and Haunts of the most eminent British Poets, vol. ii. pp. 259-291. 8vo. London: Richard Bentley. Third Edition. Routledge and Sons. 1862.
Tuckerman, Henry T. Thoughts on the Poets. 8vo. London: J. Chapman.
1849. Gilfillan, George. A Second Gallery of Literary Portraits. 8vo. Edinburgh: Groombridge.
Shaw, Thomas B. Outlines of English Literature. Wordsworth, pp. 518-526. 8vo. London: John Murray. Sixteenth Edition, edited by William Smith, D.C.L. 1887.
Taylor, Henry. Notes from Books. In four Essays. Wordsworth’s Poetical Works and Sonnets, pp. 1-186. 8vo. London: John Murray. Works: Author’s Edition, vol. v. London: C. Kegan Paul and Co. 1878.
1849-50. Southey, Robert. Life and Correspondence. Edited by the Rev. Charles Cuthbert Southey. 6 vols. Comments on Wordsworth in chaps, ix.-xiii. xv. xix. xxvi. xxxii. and xxxvi. 8vo. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans.
1851. Gillies, R. P. Memoirs of a Literary Veteran; including Sketches and Anecdotes of the most distinguished Literary Characters from 1794 to 1849. Wordsworth, vol. ii. pp. 136-173. 8vo. London: Richard Bentley.
The Poetic Companion, vol. i., pp. 168-173. A Biographical and Critical Sketch of William Wordsworth.
Moir, D. M. Sketches of the Poetical Literature of the past Half-Century, pp. 59-81; 120. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons. Third Edition, 1856.
Wordsworth, Christopher. Memoirs of William Wordsworth, Poet-Laureate, D.C.L. 2 vols. 8vo. London: Edward Moxon. 1851.
1852. January Searle (George S. Phillips). Memoirs of William Wordsworth, compiled from Authentic Sources. 12mo. London: Partridge and Oakey.
Mitford, M. R. Recollections of a Literary Life; or, Books, Places, and People, vol. iii. chap. i. 8vo. London: Richard Bentley.
1853. An Essay on the Poetry of Wordsworth, 72 pp. 8vo. Liverpool.
Austin, W. S., and John Ralph. The Lives of the Poets-Laureate. With an Introductory Essay on the Title and Office. William Wordsworth, pp. 396-428. 8vo. London: Richard Bentley.
Wright, John. The Genius of Wordsworth harmonised with the Wisdom and Integrity of his Reviewers. 8vo. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans.
Spalding, William. The History of English Literature. 8vo. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd.
1854. De Quincey, Thomas. Autobiographic Sketches. Early Memorials of Grasmere, vol. ii. pp. 104-141; William Wordsworth, pp. 227-314; William Wordsworth and Robert Southey, pp. 315-345. 8vo. Edinburgh: James Hogg. Also Collected Writings. New and Enlarged Edition. By David Masson. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. 1889-90.
Spalding, William. Wordsworth, pp. 849-851. Cyclopædia of Biography, edited by Elihu Rich. 8vo. Glasgow: Richard Griffin and Co.
Moore, Thomas. Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of. Edited by the Right Honourable Lord John Russell, vol. iii. pp. 161, 163; vol. iv. pp. 48, 335; vol. vii pp. 72, 85, 197-8; vol. viii. pp. 69, 73, 291.
1856. Carlyon, Clement. Early Years and Late Reflections, vol. i. 8vo. London: Whittaker and Co.
Hood, E. P. William Wordsworth: a Biography. 8vo. London: W. and F. G. Cash.
Masson, David. Essays, Biographical and Critical: chiefly on English Poets. Wordsworth, pp. 346-390. 8vo. Cambridge: Macmillan and Co. Reprinted from The North British Review, August 1850.
Rogers, Samuel. Recollections of the Table Talk of Samuel Rogers. 8vo. London: Edward Moxon.
Wilson, John. Noctes Ambrosianae, vols. i.-iii. 8vo. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons. New Edition, 1864.
Wilson, John. Essays, Critical and Imaginative. Wordsworth, vol. i. pp. 387-408. 8vo. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons.
1857. De Quincey, Thomas. Sketches, Critical and Biographic. On Wordsworth’s Poetry, vol. v. pp. 234-268. 8vo. Edinburgh: James Hogg and Sons.
Reed, Henry. Lectures on the British Poets. Wordsworth, Lecture XV. 8vo. London.
Wilson, John. Recreations of Christopher North, vol. ii. Sacred Poetry. Wordsworth, pp. 54-70. 8vo. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons.
1858. Brimley, George. Essays. Edited by William George Clark, M.A. Wordsworth’s Poems, pp. 104-187. 8vo. Cambridge: Macmillan and Co. Second Edition, 1860. Third Edition, 1882. Reprinted from Fraser’s Magazine, 1851.
Robertson, F. W. Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics. Wordsworth, pp. 203-256. 8vo. London: Smith, Elder and Co.
The English Cyclopædia. A New Dictionary of Universal Knowledge. Conducted by Charles Knight. Wordsworth, vol. vi. pp. 808-812.
1859. Mill, J. S. Dissertations and Discussions. Thoughts on Poetry and its Varieties, i. 63-94. 8vo. London: John W. Parker and Son. Second Edition. Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer. 1867.
1860. Carruthers, R. William Wordsworth. The Encyclopædia Britannica, Eighth Edition, xxi. 929-932. 4to. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black.
1861. Craik, George L. A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English Language from the Norman Conquest. Wordsworth, ii. 435-456; 463-467; 473. 8vo. London: Griffin, Bohn and Co.
1862. Gordon, Mrs. “Christopher North.” A Memoir of John Wilson, compiled from Family Papers and other Sources. 2 vols. 8vo. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas. New Edition, 1879.
Patterson, A. S. Poets and Preachers of the Nineteenth Century: Four Lectures, Biographical and Critical, on Wordsworth, Montgomery, Hall, and Chalmers. 8vo. Glasgow: A. Hall.
1863. Rushton, William. The Classical and Romantic Schools of English Literature, as represented by Spenser, Dryden, Pope, Scott, and Wordsworth. The Afternoon Lectures on English Literature, delivered in Dublin, pp. 43-92. 8vo. London: Bell and Daldy.
1864. Colquhoun, J. C. Scattered Leaves of Biography. IV.—Life of William Wordsworth. 8vo. London: Macintosh.
Knight, Charles. Passages from a Working Life during half a century: with a prelude of Early Reminiscences, vol. iii. chap. ii. pp. 27-29.
1865. The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography. Edited by J. F. Waller. Wordsworth, vol. vi. p. 1389. 8vo. London: W. Mackenzie.
1865. Dennis, John. Evenings in Arcadia. Edited by John Dennis. 12mo. London.
1868. Buchanan, Robert. David Gray, and Other Essays, chiefly on Poetry. Sampson Low.
Macdonald, George. England’s Antiphon, pp. 303-7. 8vo. London.
Shairp, J. C. Studies in Poetry and Philosophy. Wordsworth: the Man and the Poet, pp. 1-115. 8vo. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas. Third Edition, 1876. Fourth Edition, 1886.
Chambers’s Encyclopædia. A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People. Wordsworth, vol. x. pp. 272-274. New Edition, pp. 737-740. 1892. 8vo. London: W. and R. Chambers.
1869. Clough, A. H. Poems and Prose Remains. Lecture on the Poetry of Wordsworth, vol. i. pp. 309-325. 8vo. London: Macmillan and Co.
G., F. J. The Old College, being the Glasgow University Album for MDCCCLXIX. Edited by Students. William Wordsworth, pp. 243-259. 8vo. Glasgow: James Maclehose.
Graves, R. P. Recollections of Wordsworth and the Lake Country. The Afternoon Lectures on Literature and Art, delivered in Dublin, pp. 275-321. 8vo. Dublin: William M’Gee.
Martineau, Harriet. Biographical Sketches. Mrs. Wordsworth, pp. 402-408. 8vo. London: Macmillan and Co.
Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence. Selected and edited by Thomas Sadler. 3 vols. 8vo. London: Macmillan and Co.
1870. Emerson, R. W. English Traits, First Visit to England. Bohn’s Standard Library; also Macmillan and Co. 1883.
1871. Hutton, R. H. Essays, Theological and Literary. Wordsworth and his Genius, vol. ii. Literary Essays, pp. 101-146. 8vo. London: Strahan and Co. Second Edition, 1877.
Taine, H. A. History of English Literature. Translated by H. Van Laun. With a preface by the author. Vol. ii. pp. 248; 260-265. 8vo. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas.
Hall, S. C. A Book of Memories of Great Men and Women of the Age, from Personal Acquaintance. London: Virtue and Co. Wordsworth, pp. 287-318.
1872. Cooper, Thomas, Life of: An Autobiography. Reminiscence of Wordsworth (first published in Cooper’s Journal, May 1850), pp. 287-295.
De Morgan, Augustus. A Budget of Paradoxes. Wordsworth and Byron, p. 435. 8vo. London: Longmans, Green and Co.
Neaves, Charles (Lord Neaves). A Lecture on Cheap and Accessible Pleasures. With a Comparative Sketch of the Poetry of Burns and Wordsworth, etc. 8vo. Edinburgh.
Yonge, Charles D. Three Centuries of English Literature. Wordsworth, pp. 251-267. 8vo. London: Longmans, Green and Co.
1873. Coleridge, Sara. Memoir and Letters. Edited by her Daughter. 2 vols. 8vo. London: Henry S. King and Co.
Devey, Joseph. A Comparative Estimate of Modern English Poets. Wordsworth, pp. 87-103. 8vo. London: Moxon and Son.
Lonsdale, Henry. The Worthies of Cumberland. William Wordsworth, vol. iv. pp. 1-40. 8vo. London: George Routledge and Sons.
Morley, H. A First Sketch of English Literature. 8vo. London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin.
Nichols, W. L. The Quantocks and their Associations. A Paper read before the Members of the Bath Literary Club. 12mo. Bath. Printed for Private Circulation. Second Edition. London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co.
1874. Brooke, Stopford A. Theology in the English Poets. Wordsworth, pp. 93-286. 8vo. London: Henry S. King and Co.
Masson, David. Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, and other Essays. Wordsworth, pp. 3-74. 8vo. London: Macmillan and Co.
Wordsworth, Dorothy. Recollections of a Tour made in Scotland, A.D. 1803. Edited by J. C. Shairp. 8vo. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas.
1875. Fletcher, Mrs. Autobiography. With Letters and other Family Memorials. 8vo. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas.
1876. Forster, John. The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor. Vol. i. The Life. 8vo. London: Chapman and Hall.
Lamb, Charles. The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb. Edited, with Notes and Illustrations, by Percy Fitzgerald. References to, and Criticisms of Wordsworth in vols. i. ii. 8vo. London: E. Moxon and Co.
Lowell, J. Russell. Among my Books. Second Series. Wordsworth, pp. 201-251. 8vo. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington.
Morley, Henry. Cassell’s Library of English Literature. Vols. iii., iv., v. Wordsworth. 8vo. London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin.
Stedman, E. C. Victorian Poets. 8vo. London: Chatto and Windus.
Ticknor, George. Life, Letters, and Journals. 2 vols. 8vo. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington.
1877. Doyle, Sir Francis H. Lectures on Poetry delivered at Oxford. Second Series. Wordsworth Lectures, i.-iii. pp. 1-77. 8vo. London: Smith, Elder and Co.
Shairp, J. C. On Poetic Interpretation of Nature. Wordsworth as an Interpreter of Nature, pp. 225-270. 8vo. Edinburgh: David Douglas.
Adams (W. Davenport). Dictionary of English Literature. Wordsworth, pp. 700-701. 8vo. London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin.
1878. Dowden, E. Studies in Literature, 1789-1877. The Prose Works of Wordsworth, pp. 122-158. 8vo. London: C. Kegan Paul and Co.
Knight, William. The English Lake District as Interpreted in the Poems of Wordsworth. 12mo. Edinburgh: David Douglas. Second Edition, revised and enlarged 1891.
Rossetti, W. M. Lives of Various Poets. Wordsworth, pp. 203-218. 8vo. London: E. Moxon and Son.
The Treasury of Modern Biography. Edited by Robert Cochrane. Wordsworth, pp. 98-116. 8vo. Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo.
1879. Bagehot, Walter. Literary Studies. Edited by Richard Holt Hutton. Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning; or, Pure, Ornate, and Grotesque Art in English Poetry, vol. ii. pp. 338-390. 8vo. London: Longmans, Green and Co.
Knight, William. Studies in Philosophy and Literature. Wordsworth, pp. 283-317. Nature as Interpreted by Wordsworth, pp. 405-426. 8vo. London: C. Kegan Paul and Co.
Stephen, Leslie. Hours in a Library. Third Series. Wordsworth’s Ethics, pp. 178-229. 8vo. London: Smith, Elder and Co.
1880. Bayne, Peter. Two Great Englishwomen: Mrs. Browning and Charlotte Brontë. With an Essay on Poetry, illustrated from Wordsworth, Burns, and Byron, pp. xi.-lxxviii. 8vo. London: James Clarke and Co.
Church, R. W. William Wordsworth. The English Poets. Edited by Thomas Humphry Ward, vol. iv. pp. 1-15. 8vo. London: Macmillan and Co.
Main, David M. A Treasury of English Sonnets. Edited from the Original Sources, with Notes and Illustrations, pp. 365-390. 8vo. Manchester: Alexander Ireland and Co.
Myers, F. W. H. Wordsworth (English Men of Letters). 8vo. Macmillan and Co.
1881. Carlyle, Thomas. Reminiscences. Edited by James Anthony Froude. Vol. ii. pp. 330-341. 8vo. London: Longmans, Green and Co.
Dowden, E. The Correspondence of Robert Southey with Caroline Bowles. Edited, with an Introduction, by Edward Dowden. 8vo. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co.
Milner, George. The Literature and Scenery of the English Lake District. Reprinted from the Papers of the Manchester Literary Club, vol. vii. pp. 1-21. 8vo. Manchester.
Shairp, J. C. Aspects of Poetry, being Lectures delivered at Oxford. The Three Yarrows, pp. 316-344. The White Doe of Rylstone, pp. 345-376. 8vo. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Shorthouse, J. H. On the Platonism of Wordsworth. A Paper read to the Wordsworth Society, 19th July 1881. 4to. Birmingham: Cornish Brothers.
Symington, A. J. William Wordsworth: a Biographical Sketch, with Selections from his Writings in Poetry and Prose. 2 vols. 8vo. London: Blackie and Son.
1882. Buckland, Anna. The Story of English Literature. 8vo. London: Cassell and Co.
Cotterill, H. B. An Introduction to the Study of Poetry. Wordsworth, pp. 208-241. 8vo. London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Co.
Oliphant, Mrs. The Literary History of England in the end of the Eighteenth and beginning of the Nineteenth Century. 3 vols. 8vo. London: Macmillan and Co.
Scherer, J. A History of English Literature. Translated from the German by M. V. 8vo. London: Sampson Low and Co.
Seeley, J. R. Natural Religion. By the Author of Ecce Homo, pp. 94-111. 8vo. London: Macmillan and Co.
Ireland, Alexander. Recollections of George Dawson, etc., pp. 22-25.
1883. Caine, T. Hall. Cobwebs of Criticism. A Review of the First Reviewers of the “Lake,” “Satanic,” and “Cockney” Schools. Wordsworth, pp. 1-29. 8vo. London: Elliot Stock.
Dennis, John. Heroes of Literature: English Poets. William Wordsworth, pp. 278-299. 8vo. London: S.P.C.K.
Hall, S. C. Retrospect of a Long Life: from 1815 to 1883. Wordsworth, vol. ii. pp. 36-42. 8vo. London: Richard Bentley and Son.
Hawthorne, N. English Note-Books, vol. ii. 8vo. London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Co.
The Lyme Parish Church Magazine. Lyme-Regis: Walton.
1884. Hoffmann, F. A. Poetry, its Origin, Nature, and History. Wordsworth, chap. xxvi. pp. 359-375. 8vo. London: Thurgate and Sons.
Kerr, R. N. Our English Laureates and the Birds. Dundee: John Leng and Co. Pp. 29-51. (Originally published in the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle.)
Nicholson, Albert. The Literature of the English Lake District. Manchester.
Shorter, C. K. William Wordsworth. The National Cyclopædia: a Dictionary of Universal Knowledge. New Edition. 8vo. London: W. Mackenzie.
Traill, H. D. Coleridge. English Men of Letters. 8vo. London: Macmillan and Co.
1885. Courthope, W. J. The Liberal Movement in English Literature. Essay III. Wordsworth’s Theory of Poetry, pp. 71-108. 8vo. London: John Murray.
Eliot, George. George Eliot’s Life, as related in her Letters and Journals. By J. W. Cross. Vol. i. p. 61; iii. 388. 8vo. Edinburgh: W. Blackwood and Sons.
Hutton, Lawrence. Literary Landmarks, pp. 321-7. London: T. Fisher Unwin.
Carne, John, Letters of, 1813-1837. Privately printed. Pp. 133-138.
Taylor, Sir Henry. Autobiography 1800-1875. 2 vols. 8vo. London: Longmans, Green and Co.
1886. Dawson, George. Biographical Lectures. Edited by George St. Clair. The Poetry of Wordsworth, pp. 251-307. 8vo. London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Co.
Law, David. Wordsworth’s Country. A series of Five Etchings of the English Lake District. 24mo. London: Robert Dunthorne.
Lee, Edmund. Dorothy Wordsworth. The Story of a Sister’s Love. 8vo. London: James Clarke and Co. New and revised edition 1894.
Nicholson, Cornelius. Wordsworth and Coleridge: Two Parallel Sketches. Ventnor: R. Madley. 1886.
Noel, Hon. Roden B. W. Essays on Poetry and Poets. Wordsworth, pp. 132-149. 8vo. London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Co.
Swinburne, A. C. Miscellanies, Wordsworth and Byron, pp. 63-156. 8vo. London. 1886.
Launcelot Cross (F. Carr). Thinkers of the World in relation to the New Church. 1. Childhood as revealed in Wordsworth; 2. Wordsworth on Infancy and Youth. N.D.
1887. De Vere, Aubrey. Essays, chiefly on Poetry. The Genius and Passion of Wordsworth, vol. i. pp. 101-173; The Wisdom and Truth of Wordsworth’s Poetry, vol. i. pp. 174-264; Recollections of Wordsworth, vol. ii. pp. 275-295. 8vo. London: Macmillan and Co.
Goodwin, H., and William Knight. Through the Wordsworth Country. 8vo. London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey and Co. Third Edition, 1892.
Lowell, J. Russell. Democracy and other Addresses, pp. 137-156. 8vo. London: Macmillan and Co.
Memorials of Coleorton: being Letters from Coleridge, Wordsworth and his Sister, Southey, and Sir Walter Scott, to Sir George and Lady Beaumont of Coleorton, Leicestershire, 1803 to 1834. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by William Knight. 2 vols. 8vo. Edinburgh: David Douglas.
Sutherland, J. M. William Wordsworth: the Story of his Life, with Critical Remarks on his Writings. 8vo. London: Elliot Stock.
1888. Arnold, Matthew. Essays in Criticism. Second Series. Wordsworth, pp. 122-162. 8vo. London: Macmillan and Co.
Church, R. W. Dante and other Essays. William Wordsworth, pp. 193-219. 8vo. London: Macmillan and Co.
Dowden, E. Transcripts and Studies. The Text of Wordsworth’s Poems, pp. 112-152. 8vo. London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Co. Reprinted from The Contemporary Review.
Ingleby, C. M. Essays. Edited by his Son. 8vo. Trübner and Co.
Minto, W. William Wordsworth. The Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition, xxiv. pp. 668-676. 4to. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black.
Sandford, Mrs. Henry. Thomas Poole and his Friends. 2 vols. 8vo. London: Macmillan and Co.
1889. Clayden, P. W. Rogers and his Contemporaries. 2 vols. 8vo. London: Smith, Elder and Co.
Howitt, Mary. Autobiography. Edited by her daughter Margaret Howitt. 2 vols. 8vo. London: William Isbister.
Letters from the Lake Poets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Robert Southey, to Daniel Stuart. Printed for Private Circulation. Wordsworth, pp. 329-386. 8vo. London: West, Newman and Co.
Pater, Walter. Appreciations. With an Essay on Style. 8vo. London: Macmillan and Co.
Wordsworthiana. A Selection from Papers read to the Wordsworth Society. Edited by William Knight. 8vo. London: Macmillan and Co.
1890. Boland, R. Yarrow, its Poets and Poetry, pp. 77-9. Dalbeattie.
Brooke, Stopford A. Dove Cottage, Wordsworth’s Home from 1800-1808. December 21, 1799, to May 1808. 12mo. London: Macmillan and Co.
Davey, Sir Horace. Wordsworth. An Address read to the Stockton Literary and Philosophical Society. 8vo. Stockton-on-Tees. 1890.
Dawson, W. J. Makers of Modern English. Ch. x. William Wordsworth; ch. xi. The Connection between Wordsworth’s Life and Poetry; ch. xii. Some Characteristics of Wordsworth’s Poetry; ch. xiii. Wordsworth’s View of Nature and Man; ch. xiv. Wordsworth’s Patriotic and Political Poems; ch. xv. Wordsworth’s Personal Characteristics; ch. xvi. Concluding Survey.
Malleson, F. A. Holiday Studies of Wordsworth, by Rivers, Woods, and Alps. The Wharfe, the Duddon, and the Stelvio Pass. 4to. Cassell and Co.
M’Williams, R. Handbook of English Literature, pp. 456-466. London: Longmans, Green and Co.
Tutin, J. R. Birthday Texts. W. P. Nimmo.
1891. De Quincey, Thomas. De Quincey Memorials. Being Letters and Records here first published.… Edited, with Introduction, Notes, and Narrative, by Alexander H. Japp. 2 vols. 8vo. London: William Heinemann.
Gosse, E. Gossip in a Library. Peter Bell and his Tormentors, pp. 253-267. 8vo. London: W. Heinemann. Third Edition, 1893.
Graham, P. A. Nature in Books: some Studies in Biography. 8vo. London: Methuen and Co.
Morley, John. Studies in Literature. Wordsworth, pp. 1-53. 8vo. London: Macmillan and Co.
Scherer, Edmond. Essays on English Literature, translated by George Saintsbury, with a Critical Introduction. 8vo. London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co.
Tutin, J. R. The Wordsworth Dictionary of Persons and Places, with the Familiar Quotations from his Works (including full Index) and a chronologically-arranged List of his best Poems. 8vo. Hull: J. R. Tutin.
Wordsworth, Elizabeth. William Wordsworth. 8vo. London: Percival and Co.
1892. Caird, Edward. Essays on Literature and Philosophy. Wordsworth, vol. i. pp. 147-189. 8vo. Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons.
Dawson, W. J. Quest and Vision: essays in Life and Literature. Wordsworth and his Message, pp. 41-72. 8vo. London: Hodder and Stoughton.
Tutin, J. R. An Index to the Animal and Vegetable Kingdoms of Wordsworth. Hull.
Tutin, J. R. Wordsworth in Yorkshire. First published in Yorkshire Notes and Queries. Part xix.
Wintringham, W. H. The Birds of Wordsworth: Poetically, Mythologically, and Comparatively examined. 8vo. London: Hutchinson and Co.
1894. Campbell, J. Dykes. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A Narrative of the Events of his Life. 8vo. London: Macmillan and Co.
Minto, W. The Literature of the Georgian Era. Edited, with a Biographical Introduction, by William Knight, LL.D., pp. 140-177. 8vo. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons.
Rawnsley, H. D. Literary Associations of the English Lakes. 2 vols. 8vo. Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons.
1895. Coleridge, S. T. Letters. Edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge. 2 vols. 8vo. London: William Heinemann.
In Lakeland, a Wordsworthic Pilgrimage, Easter 1895.
1896. Saintsbury, George. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895). Wordsworth, pp. 49-56. 8vo. London: Macmillan and Co.
A Reminiscence of Wordsworth Day. Cockermouth, April 7, 1896. Edited by the Rev. H. D. Rawnsley, Hon. Canon of Carlisle. Cockermouth: A. Lang.
IV CRITICAL ESTIMATES IN BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, MAGAZINES, AND REVIEWS
In the following section when the name of an author is placed within brackets, it is to be understood that the name was not given on the publication of the Review, but that it is otherwise known.—Ed.
1793. “Descriptive Sketches in Verse.” The Monthly Review, xii. 216.
“An Evening Walk.” The Monthly Review, xii. 218.
1799. “Lyrical Ballads, with a few other Poems.” The Monthly Review, xxix. 202; The British Critic, xiv. 364.
1801. “Lyrical Ballads, with other Poems.” In 2 vols. Second Edition. The British Critic, xvii. 125.
1802. “Lyrical Ballads, with other Poems.” Vol. ii. The Monthly Review, xxxviii. 209.
1807. “Poems.” In 2 vols. The Edinburgh Review, xi. 214. By Francis Jeffrey. Monthly Literary Recreations, 65. (By Lord Byron.)
1808. “Poems.” In 2 vols. The Eclectic Review, vii. 35.
1809. “Poems.” In 2 vols. The British Critic, xxxiii. 298.
1810. “Concerning the relations of Great Britain, Spain, and Portugal, to each other, and to the Common Enemy, at this Crisis, etc.” The British Critic, xxxiv. 305.
1814. “The Excursion; being a portion of The Recluse, a Poem.” The Edinburgh Review, xxiv. 1. (By Francis Jeffrey); The Quarterly Review, xii. 100. (By Charles Lamb.)
1815. “Poems; including Lyrical Ballads, and the miscellaneous pieces of the Author. With additional Poems, a new Preface, and a supplementary Essay.” The Monthly Review, lxxviii. 225; The Quarterly Review, xiv. 201. (By W. Gifford.)
“The Excursion; being a portion of The Recluse: a Poem.” The Eclectic Review, xxi. 13; The Monthly Review, lxxvi. 123; The British Critic, iii. 449.
“The Excursion: being a portion of The Recluse: a Poem.” The British Review, vi. 49.
“The White Doe of Rylstone.” The Quarterly Review, xiv. 201. (By W. Gifford.) The Edinburgh Review, xxv. 355. (By Francis Jeffrey.) The Monthly Review, lxxviii. 235.
1816. “The White Doe of Rylstone.” The Eclectic Review, xxiii. 33.
“Thanksgiving Ode, with other short Pieces.” The Eclectic Review, xxiv. 1.
“The White Doe of Rylstone.” The British Review, vii. 370.
1817. “Thanksgiving Ode, with other short Pieces.” The Monthly Review, lxxxii. 98.
“Observations on Mr. Wordsworth’s Letter relative to a new Edition of Burns’s Works.” Blackwood’s Magazine, i. 261.
“Vindication of Mr. Wordsworth’s Letter to Mr. Gray on a new Edition of Burns.” Blackwood’s Magazine, ii. 65.
“Letter occasioned by N.’s Vindication of Mr. Wordsworth in last Number.” Blackwood’s Magazine, ii. 201.
1818. “Essays on the Lake School of Poetry. I. Wordsworth’s White Doe of Rylstone.” Blackwood’s Magazine, iii. 369.
1819. “Peter Bell: a Tale in Verse.” The Edinburgh Monthly Review, ii. 654; Blackwood’s Magazine, v. 130; The Eclectic Review, xxx. 62; The Monthly Review, lxxxix. 419; The Literary Gazette, 273.
“The Waggoner: a Poem, to which are added Sonnets.” The Monthly Review, xc. 36; The Edinburgh Monthly Review, ii. 654; Blackwood’s Magazine, v. 332; The Eclectic Review, xxx. 62.
“Benjamin the Waggoner, a ryghte merrie and conceitede Tale in Verse.” The Monthly Review, xc. 41.
“Peter Bell: a Lyrical Ballad.” The Monthly Review, lxxxix. 422; The Eclectic Review, xxix. 473.
“Memoir of William Wordsworth, Esq.” (with a portrait). The New Monthly Magazine, i. 48.
1820. “Lake School of Poetry—Mr. Wordsworth.” The New Monthly Magazine, xiv. 361.
“Wordsworth.” The London Magazine, i. 275, 435.
“Wordsworth’s River Duddon, and other Poems.” The Gentleman’s Magazine, xc. 344; The London Magazine, i. 618; The London Review and Literary Journal, 523; Blackwood’s Magazine, vii. 206; The Eclectic Review, xxxii. 170; The Monthly Review, xciii. 132.
“The River Duddon, and other Poems.” The British Review, xvi. 37.
“Essay on Poetry, with Observations on the Living Poets.” The London Magazine, ii. 557.
“The Dead Asses: A Lyrical Ballad.” The Monthly Review, xci. 322.
“Description of the Scenery of the Lakes.” Blackwood’s Magazine, xii.
1822. “Memorials of a Tour on the Continent.” The British Critic, xviii. 522; The Edinburgh Review, xxxvii. 449. (By F. Jeffrey.) Blackwood’s Magazine, xii. 175; The British Review, xx. 459; The Literary Gazette, 192, 210; The Museum, i. 339.
“Ecclesiastical Sketches.” Blackwood’s Magazine, xii. 175; The British Critic, xviii. 522; The Literary Gazette, 123.
1829. “An Essay on the Theory and the Writings of Wordsworth.” Blackwood’s Magazine, xxvi. 453, 593, 774, 894.
1831. “Literary Characters—No. III. Mr. Wordsworth.” Fraser’s Magazine, iii. 557. By Pierce Pungent.
“Selections from the Poems of W. Wordsworth, chiefly for the use of Schools and Young Persons.” The New Monthly Magazine, xxxiii. 304; The Monthly Review, ii. 602.
1832. “Gallery of Literary Characters—No. XXIX. William Wordsworth.” Frasers Magazine, vi. 313.
“Poetical Works.” New Edition. Fraser’s Magazine, vi. 607.
1833. “What is Poetry? The two kinds of Poetry.” The Monthly Repository, New Series, vii. 60, 714. By Antiquus (John Stuart Mill).
1834. “The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth.” A New Edition. The Quarterly Review, lii. 317. (By Henry Taylor.)
“Selections from the Poems of William Wordsworth.” The Quarterly Review, lii. 317. (By Henry Taylor.)
1835. “Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems.” The New Monthly Magazine, xliv. 12; Blackwood’s Magazine, xxxvii. 699; Fraser’s Magazine, xi. 689; The Quarterly Review, liv. 181; The Dublin University Magazine, v. 680; The Monthly Literary Gazette, 257; The Athenæum, 293; The Monthly Review, cxxxvii. 605; The Monthly Repository, New Series, ix. 430.
1838. “Letter from Tomkins—Bagman versus Pedlar.” Blackwood’s Magazine, xliv. 509.
“Our Pocket Companions.” Blackwood’s Magazine, xliv. 584.
“The Sonnets of William Wordsworth.” The Literary Gazette, 540.
1839. “Lake Reminiscences, from 1807 to 1830—Nos. I.-III. William Wordsworth; No. IV. William Wordsworth and Robert Southey.” Taits Edinburgh Magazine, vi. I, 90, 246, 453. (By Thomas de Quincey.)
1841. “Wordsworth.” Blackwood’s Magazine, xlix. 359.
“The Sonnets of William Wordsworth.” The Quarterly Review, lxix. 1. (By Henry Taylor.)
1842. “Poems, chiefly of Early and Late Years; including The Borderers.” The Monthly Review, ii. 270; The Eclectic Review, lxxvi. 568; The Christian Remembrancer, iii. 655; The Athenæum, 757.
Criticism in a Review of “The Book of the Poets” in The Athenæum. (By Elizabeth Barrett Browning.)
“Poems of the Fancy,” “Poems of the Imagination.” The Gentleman’s Magazine, xvii. 3.
“Imaginary Conversation. Southey and Porson.” Blackwood’s Magazine, lii. 687. (By Walter Savage Landor.)
1844. “Oswald Herbst’s Letters from England—No. II. Wordsworth and his Poetry.” Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, xi. 641.
1845. “On Wordsworth’s Poetry.” Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, xii. 545. (By Thomas de Quincey.)
“Poems, chiefly of Early and Late Years; including The Borderers.” The Gentleman’s Magazine, xxiv. 555.
“William Wordsworth.” Hogg’s Weekly Instructor, ii. 243.
1850. “William Wordsworth.” Chambers’s Papers for the People, v. I.
“William Wordsworth.” The Gentleman’s Magazine, New Series, xxxiii. 668; The Athenæum, 447; Sharpe’s London Magazine, xi. 349.
“Poetical Works.” The Eclectic Review, xcii. 56; The North British Review, xiii. 473. (By David Masson.)
“The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet’s Mind.” The Eclectic Review, xcii. 550; The Gentleman’s Magazine, xxxiv. 459; Fraser’s Magazine, xlii. 119; The Westminster Review, liv. 271; The British Quarterly Review, xii. 549; Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, xvii. 521; The Dublin University Magazine, xxxvi. 329; The Literary Gazette, 513; The Athenæum, 805; Sharpe’s London Journal, xii. 185; The London Examiner, 478.
“William Wordsworth.” Household Words, i. 210.
“Wordsworth and his Poetry.” Chambers’s Journal, xiii. 363. By C. R.
“Poetical Works.” The Christian Observer, i. 307.
“Religious Character of Wordsworth’s Poetry.” The Christian Observer, i. 381.
“Death of Wordsworth.” The London Examiner, 259, 265.
“The Poetry of Wordsworth.” The Wesleyan Methodist Magazine, 27.
1851. “Memoirs of William Wordsworth.” Fraser’s Magazine, xliv. 101, 186; The Dublin University Magazine, xxxviii. 77; The Dublin Review, xxxi. 313; The Gentleman’s Magazine, New Series, xxxvi. 107; The Athenæum, 445.
“Poetical Works.” The Dublin Review, xxxi. 313.
“The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet’s Mind.” The Prospective Review, vii. 94.
1852. “Memoirs of William Wordsworth.” By Christopher Wordsworth. The Quarterly Review, xcii. 182.
“Memoirs of William Wordsworth, compiled from Authentic Sources.” By January Searle. The Quarterly Review, xcii. 182.
“Lives of the Illustrious. William Wordsworth.” The Biographical Magazine, I.
1853. “William Wordsworth.” Sharpe’s London Journal, xvii. 148.
“The Genius of Wordsworth harmonised with the Wisdom and Integrity of his Reviewers.” By J. C. Wright. The Athenæum, 824.
1855. “William Wordsworth.” The Leisure Hour, iv. 439.
1856. “Poems of William Wordsworth, D.C.L.” The Dublin Review, xl. 338.
“William Wordsworth.” Sharpe’s London Journal, xi. 349.
1857. “William Wordsworth. A Biography.” By Edwin Paxton Hood. The National Review, iv. 1.
“The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth.” A New Edition. The Athenæum, 109.
“The Earlier Poems of William Wordsworth.” Edited by William Johnston. The Athenæum, 109.
“Wordsworth’s Sister.” By E. P. Hood. The Leisure Hour.
1859. “Passages from Wordsworth’s Excursion.” Illustrated with Etchings on Steel. By Agnes Fraser. The Athenæum, i, 361.
“William Wordsworth. A Biography.” By Edwin Paxton Hood. The Christian Observer, lix. 156.
“A Talk about Rydal Mount.” Once a Week, i. 107. (By Thomas Blackburne.)
1860. “Collected Works of William Wordsworth.” A New and Revised Edition. The British Quarterly Review, xxxi. 79.
“The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet’s Mind.” The British Quarterly Review, xxxi. 79.
“Richard Baxter paraphrased by Wordsworth.” Varieties in The Leisure Hour.
1863. “The Poems of Hood and of Wordsworth.” The Christian Observer, lxiii. 677.
“William Wordsworth.” The Leisure Hour, xii. 628.
1864. “Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning; or, Pure, Ornate, and Grotesque Art in English Poetry.” The National Review, xix. 27. W. B. (Walter Bagehot.)
“Wordsworth: the Man and the Poet.” The North British Review, xli. 1. (By J. C. Shairp.)
1865. “Two Poets of England. Wordsworth and Landor.” Temple Bar, xvi. 106.
“Wordsworth at Rydal Mount in 1849.” In The Leisure Hour.
1866. “Memories of the Authors of the Age.” William Wordsworth. The Art Journal, xviii. 245, 273. S. C. Hall and Mrs. S. C. Hall.
1868. “Characteristic Letters”; communicated by the author of Men I have Known—W. Wordsworth.
1870. “Wordsworth at Work.” Chambers’s Journal, xlvii. 247.
“Personal Recollections of the Lake Poets.” In The Leisure Hour, 651. The Rev. Edward Whately.
“Wordsworth’s Study,” in The Leisure Hour.
1871. “A Century of Great Poets, from 1750 downwards—No. III. William Wordsworth.” Blackwood’s Magazine, cx. 299.
1872. “Wordsworth impartially weighed.” Temple Bar, xxxiv. 310.
1873. “Wordsworth.” Macmillan’s Magazine, xxviii. 289. Sir John Duke Coleridge.
“Wordsworth’s Three Yarrows.” Good Words, xiv. 649. J. C. Shairp.
1874. “On Wordsworth.” The Fortnightly Review, xxi. 455. Walter H. Pater.
“William and Dorothy Wordsworth.” Chambers’s Journal, li. 513. William Chambers.
“White Doe of Rylstone.” Good Words, xv. 269. J. C. Shairp.
“The Cycle of English Song.” Temple Bar, xl. 478.
1875. “The Prose Works of William Wordsworth.” Edited by the Rev. A. B. Grosart. The Fortnightly Review, xxiv. 449. Edward Dowden. The Dublin University Magazine, lxxxvi. 756.
1876. “Hours in a Library.” Wordsworth’s Ethics. The Cornhill Magazine, xxxiv. 206. Leslie Stephen.
“The Prose Works of William Wordsworth.” Wordsworth and Gray. The Quarterly Review, cxli. 104.
“The Prose Works of William Wordsworth.” Edited by the Rev. A. B. Grosart. The London Quarterly Review, xlvii. 102.
1877. “The Wordsworths at Brinsop Court.” Temple Bar, xlix. 110.
1878. “The Text of Wordsworth’s Poems.” The Contemporary Review, xxxiii. 734. Edward Dowden.
“Wordsworth.” Transactions of the Cumberland Association for the Advancement of Literature and Science, Part III. William Knight.
1879. “Wordsworth.” Macmillan’s Magazine, xl. 193. Matthew Arnold.
“Matthew Arnold’s Selections from Wordsworth.” The Fortnightly Review, xxxii. 686. J. A. Symonds.
1880. “Milton and Wordsworth.” Temple Bar, lx. 106.
“Wordsworth.” Frasers Magazine, ci. 205. Edward Caird.
“Wordsworth’s Poems.” Selected and edited by Matthew Arnold. The Modern Review, i, 235. William Knight.
“The Genius and Passion of Wordsworth.” The Month, xxxviii. 465; xxxix. 1. Aubrey De Vere.
1881. “Carlyle’s Reminiscences.” Carlyle’s Impressions of Wordsworth. The Nineteenth Century, lx. 1010. Henry Taylor.
“Wordsworth.” The Churchman, March.
1882. “Wordsworth and Byron.” The Quarterly Review, cliv. 53. Matthew Arnold.
“My Rare Book.” The Gentleman’s Magazine, New Series, xxviii. 531. Frederick Wedmore.
“Wordsworth’s Two Styles.” The Modern Review, iii. 525. R. H. Hutton.
“A French Critic on Wordsworth—M. Schérer.” The Saturday Review, liv. 565.
“Poetical Works.” Edited by William Knight. The Academy, xxii. III. Edward Dowden. The Spectator, lv. 1141; The Modern Review, iii, 861.
“Transactions of the Wordsworth Society—No. I. Bibliography of the Poems; No. II. On the Platonism of Wordsworth.” J. H. Shorthouse. The Spectator, lv. 238.
“The Weak Side of Wordsworth.” The Spectator, lv. 687.
1883. “Wordsworth and the Duddon.” Good Words, xxiv. 573. F. A. Malleson.
“Address to the Wordsworth Society.” Macmillan’s Magazine, xlviii. 154. Matthew Arnold.
“Poetical Works.” Edited by William Knight. The Spectator, lvi. 614.
“In Wordsworth’s Country.” The Yorkshire Illustrated Monthly, 32. N. Paton.
“Poets’ Pictures.” Temple Bar, lxxx. 232.
“Old Age in Bath, to which are added a few unpublished remains of Wordsworth.” Henry Julian Hunter.
1884. “Wordsworth and Byron.” The Nineteenth Century, xv. 583, 764. A. C. Swinburne.
“The Wisdom and Truth of Wordsworth’s Poetry.” The Catholic World. Aubrey de Vere.
“Wordsworth and ‘Natural Religion.’” Good Words, xxv. 307. J. C. Shairp.
“Wordsworth’s Relations to Science.” Macmillan’s Magazine, l. 202. R. Spence Watson.
“Sonnets.” Edited by the Archbishop of Dublin. The Academy, xxv. 108. Samuel Waddington.
“The Literature of the English Lake District.” The Manchester Quarterly, No. xii. Albert Nicholson.
“A Stroll up the Brathay.” Good Words, xxv. 392. Herbert Rix.
“The Liberal Movement in English Literature—III. Wordsworth’s Theory of Poetry.” The National Review, iv. 512. William John Courthope.
1885. “Wordsworth’s Influence in Scotland.” The Spectator, lviii. 1292.
“Dorothy Wordsworth.” The Christian World Magazine, 314, 360, 464, 548.
“Archbishop Sandys’ Endowed School, Hawkshead, near Ambleside. Tercentenary Commemoration.”
1886. “Wordsworth.” Temple Bar, lxxvii. 336. Charles F. Johnson.
“Poetical Works.” Edited by William Knight. The Spectator, lix. 355.
1887. “Memorials of Coleorton.” Edited by William Knight. The Spectator, lx. 1656.
“Wordsworth, the Poet of Nature.” The Sunday Magazine, xvi. 166. Henry C. Ewart.
“The Mystical Side of Wordsworth.” The National Review, ix. 833. John Hogben.
1888. “Mr. Morley on Wordsworth.” The Spectator, lxi. 1807.
“The Recluse.” The Spectator, lxi. 1852.
“Selections from Wordsworth.” By William Knight, and other Members of the Wordsworth Society. The Spectator, lxi. 1852.
1889. “Selections from Wordsworth.” By William Knight, and other Members of the Wordsworth Society. The Athenæum, i. 109.
“A Modern Poetic Seer.” The Christian World.
“The Recluse.” The Edinburgh Review, clxix. 415. The Academy, xxxv. 17. Edward Dowden. The Saturday Review, lxvii. 43; The Athenæum, i. 109.
“Complete Poetical Works.” With an Introduction by John Morley. The Edinburgh Review, clxix. 415. The Academy, xxxv. 17. Edward Dowden. The Athenæum, i. 109.
“Wordsworthiana.” Edited by William Knight. The Edinburgh Review, clxix. 415; The Academy, xxxv. 229. Edward Dowden. The Spectator, lxii. 369.
“Wordsworth’s Great Failure.” The Nineteenth Century, xxvi. 435. William Minto.
“The Life of William Wordsworth.” By William Knight. The Saturday Review, lxvii. 732; The Spectator, lxiii. 143; The Athenæum, i. 719.
“Wordsworth and the Quantock Hills.” The National Review, xiv. 67. William Greswell.
1890. “Lyrical Ballads.” Edited by Edward Dowden. The Spectator, lxiv. 479.
“The Story of a Sonnet.” The Athenæum, i. 641. James Bromley.
“Some Early Poems of Wordsworth.” The Athenæum, ii. 320. J. D. C. (James Dykes Campbell).
“The Lyrical Ballads of 1800.” The Athenæum, ii. 699. J. D. C.
“Wordsworth’s Verses in his Guide to the Lake Country.” The Athenæum. J. D. C.
1891. “Wordsworth’s ‘Immortal’ Ode.” The Parent’s Review, i. 864, 944; ii. 70.
“The Wordsworth Dictionary of Persons and Places,” with the Familiar Quotations from his Works. (By J. R. Tutin.) The Athenæum, ii. 756, 834.
“The College Days of William Wordsworth.” The Eagle, xvi., No. 94. G. C. M. Smith.
“William Wordsworth.” By Elizabeth Wordsworth. The Athenæum, ii. 516.
1892. “The Yarrow of Wordsworth and Scott.” Blackwood’s Magazine, cli. 638. John Veitch.
“The last Decade of the last Century.” The Contemporary Review, lxii. 422. J.W. Hales.
“The Influence of Burns on Wordsworth.” The Manchester Quarterly, xi. 285. George Milner.
“Wordsworth on Old Age.” Literary Opinion, vii. 186, Sir Edward Strachey.
“The Birds of Wordsworth, practically, mythologically, and comparatively examined.” By William H. Wintringham. The Athenæum, i. 594, 634, 666, 697.
“Dove Cottage,” in The Athenæum, i. 727.
“The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth.” Edited by Edward Dowden. The Athenæum. No. 3404.
1893. “Some Unpublished Letters of William Wordsworth.” The Cornhill Magazine, New Series, xx. 257.
“Reminiscences of Scott, Campbell, Jeffrey, and Wordsworth.” The Bookman, iv. 47.
“Our Poet’s Corner.” The Girls’ Own Paper, xiv. 772.
“Dove Cottage, Grasmere—Wordsworth’s Home.” The Girls’ Own Paper, xiv. 772. Milward Wood.
“Down the Duddon with Wordsworth.” The Leisure Hour, xlii. 532. Herbert Rix.
“Wordsworth’s ‘Grace Darling.’” The Athenæum, No. 3440. Edward Dowden.
“Note by Wordsworth.” The Athenæum, No. 3443. E. H. C. (Ernest H. Coleridge).
“Wordsworth and the Morning Post.” The Athenæum, No. 3445. E. H. C.
1894. “Wordsworth’s ‘Castle of Indolence’ Stanzas.” The Fortnightly Review, lxii. 685. T. Hutchinson.
“A Century of Wordsworth.” The Sunday at Home, 641, 646. By E. S. Capper.
1895. “The Charm of Wordsworth.” Great Thoughts, iv. 399.
“Wordsworth and Carlyle: a Literary Parallel.” Temple Bar, cv. 261.
“Dorothy Wordsworth, 1771-1855.” Great Thoughts, v. 56. Alexander Small.
1896. “Wordsworth’s Quantock Poems.” Temple Bar, April 1896. William Greswell.
V PARODIES ON WORDSWORTH
The Battered Tar; or, The Waggoner’s Companion. A Poem, with Sonnets, etc. J. Johnston.
1839. Peter Bell the Third. By Miching Mallecho, Esq. (Percy B. Shelley).
1876. Literary Remains. By Catherine Maria Fanshawe. B. M. Pickering. London.
1888. The Poets at Tea. The Cambridge Fortnightly (Feb. 7).
1819. The Dead Asses. A Lyrical Ballad.
1819. Peter Bell. a Lyrical Ballad. By John Hamilton Reynolds. London: Taylor and Hessey.
1816. The Poetic Mirror; or, the Living Bards of Britain, pp. 131-187. (By James Hogg.)
The Stranger; being a further portion of “The Recluse,” a poem.
The Flying Taylor; further extract from “The Recluse,” a poem.
James Rigg; still further extract from “The Recluse,” a poem. 12mo. London: Longmans. Second Edition. 1817.
1888. Hamilton, Walter. Parodies of the Works of English and American Authors, collected and annotated by Walter Hamilton. William Wordsworth, pp. 88-106. 8vo. London: Reeves and Turner.
VI POEMS ADDRESSED TO WORDSWORTH, AND ALLUSIONS TO HIM BY CONTEMPORARY AND SUBSEQUENT POETS
1. Coleridge, S. T. To William Wordsworth, composed on the night after his recitation of a poem on the growth of an individual mind. Published in “Sibylline Leaves.”
2. Coleridge, Hartley. To William Wordsworth, on his seventy-fifth Birthday.
3. Wilson, John. In “The Angler’s Tent,” p. 257 of the edition of 1858.
4. Keats, John. In his Sonnets [the 2nd addressed to Haydon].
5. Shelley, Percy B. To Wordsworth. Another reference occurs in Alastor.
6. Moir, D. M. To Wordsworth. In Blackwood’s Magazine, viii. 542; afterwards included amongst his “Poems,” vol. ii. p. 28. 1852.
7, 8. Browning, Mrs. On a Portrait of Wordsworth by B. R. Haydon. (Sonnets.) 1866. Vol. ii. p. 264. Also in Lady Geraldine’s Courtship, vol. ii. p. 109. 1866.
9. Elliott, Ebenezer. In The Village Patriarch. Book iv. 1840.
10. Tennyson, Alfred Lord. In the Dedication of his Poems “To the Queen.” March 1851.
11, 12. Alford, Henry. In The School of the Heart, pp. 66, 67; and Recollections of Wordsworth’s “Ruth,” p. 163. 1868.
13. Lowell, James Russell. In A Fable for Critics, p. 133. 1873.
14, 15. Byron, Lord. In English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Also in Don Juan.
16. Hunt, Leigh. In The Feast of the Poets. This first appeared in The Reflector, which survived from 1810 to 1812.
17. Hemans, Mrs. To Wordsworth, in her “Miscellaneous Poems.”
18. Scenes and Hymns of Life. Dedicated to Wordsworth. p. 568. N. D.
19. Hallam, A. H. Meditative Fragments. No. vi. 1863.
20, 21, 22. Arnold, Matthew. Memorial Verses. April 1850. Also in Youth and Nature, and in Obermann Once More. p. 203. 1869.
23, 24, 25. De Vere, Sir Aubrey. In Rydal with Wordsworth (Sonnets). p. 208. 1842. Wordsworth. Composed at Rydal, 1st Sept. 1860. p. 392. Wordsworth, on Visiting the Duddon, p. 393.
26. Tollemache, The Hon. Beatrix L. Wordsworth, in “Safe Studies,” p. 409. 1884.
27. Tollemache, The Hon. Beatrix L. To Wordsworth, in “Engleberg, and other Verses.” 1890.
28. Bell, George. Rydal Mount, in “Descriptive and other Miscellaneous Pieces in Verse.” Penrith, 1835.
29. Houghton, Lord. Sonnet beginning “The hour may come,” etc. Poetical Works, vol. i. p. 267. 1876.
30. Worsley, P. S. Stanzas to Wordsworth, in Blackwood’s Magazine, xcii. pp. 92-93.
31. Austin, Alfred. Wordsworth at Dove Cottage. 1890.
32, 33. Scott, W. B. Poems (three Sonnets), pp. 180-182. 1875. Also in “A Poet’s Harvest Home,” 1893. Wordsworth, p. 123.
34, 35, 36. Rawnsley, H. D. In “Sonnets at the English Lakes.” IX. Wordsworth’s Seat, Rydal; LI. A Tree planted by William Wordsworth at Wray Castle; LXII. Wordsworth’s Tomb.
37. Payne, James. Wordsworth’s Grave, in “Lakes in Sunshine.” 1870.
38. Landor, L. E. On Wordsworth’s Cottage, near Grasmere Lake, in her “Poetical Works,” pp. 551-4. 1873.
39. Allingham, William. On reading of the Funeral of the Poet Wordsworth, p. 258 of “Poems.” 1850.
40. Palgrave, Francis Turner. William Wordsworth, in his “Lyrical Poems.” 1871.
41. Anderson, G. F. R. Wordsworth, in “The White Book of the Muses,” p. 67. 1895.
42. Dawson, James, jun. Wordsworth and Hartley Coleridge: in Grasmere Churchyard, Westmoreland. In Macmillan’s Magazine, xiii. 26.
43. Watson, William. Wordsworth’s Grave. Originally published in the National Review, x. 40; afterwards included in the volume, “Wordsworth’s Grave, and other Poems.” 1890.
44. Matsura (a Japanese poet). Moonlight on Windermere, translated by H. D. Rawnsley in Murray’s Magazine, Oct. 1887.
II.—AMERICA
BIBLIOGRAPHY of the Various Editions of WORDSWORTH’S POETICAL WORKS, which have been printed and published in the United States of America, from 1801 to 1895, arranged in Chronological Order: also a Bibliography of Critical Essays, and Biographical Sketches, of Wordsworth’s Life and Works in Books, Reviews, and Periodicals; with Notes, by Mrs. Henry A. St. John, Ithaca, New York.
PREFATORY NOTE
My ideal in attempting to prepare a Bibliography of Wordsworth in America was high. I hoped to see each edition, or at least to identify the editions hinted at in the various catalogues. I determined to read every article, in criticism, or review; and to know if the many references, given by Poole and other authorities, were correct. As is usually the case, the reality has fallen far short of the ideal. But, while the results are not what were desired, there have been many fortunate discoveries.
Two things were learned to begin with. First, that astonishingly little care had been taken to preserve the history of the early American Editions, or to preserve, even, the earlier American Periodicals. Most of our larger libraries are amazingly deficient in these works. Second, it was found that existing Catalogues or Lists are not only far from complete, but full of gross blunders. Roorbach (the Addenda, Supplements, etc.) was found to be a mere rehash of the old trade sales Catalogues, swarming with blunders. In the matter of dates, imprints, the particular editions, the size of books, Roorbach is utterly untrustworthy. Allibone (so far as Wordsworth is concerned) is also confusing and incomplete. I did not find much in the various Public or College Library Catalogues.
I wrote to the librarians of some of the older libraries, after I had made out a preliminary list, to ascertain if they could add thereto any editions, from their cards or manuscript catalogues. From these sources I was enabled several times to solve seemingly insolvable problems.
I had assistance from, and in some instances visited, the following libraries: Cornell University, Boston Public Library, Boston Athenæum, Harvard College, Philadelphia Public Library, the Library College of Philadelphia, Mercantile Library College, Philadelphia; the Public Library, St. Louis; that of Lennox and Astor, the University of Virginia, the State Library, Richmond, Va., and one or two other Southern libraries. I have written more than one hundred letters to publishers, editors, authors, the descendants of early American Wordsworthians, Professors of Literature, and professed Wordsworthians in Seminaries and Colleges. I have examined, or employed others to examine, the following works for editions of Wordsworth: the New York Literary World, Norton’s Literary Gazette, American Publishers’ Circular, Publishers’ Weekly, Catalogues of Congress Library, The Port Folio, American Quarterly Review, Knickerbocker Magazine, New York Quarterly Review, American Review, North American Review. And this is but half of my story.
Poole’s “Index,” of course, was a great assistance. But I did not rely altogether on him, after I had discovered several mistakes in titles and numbering—mistakes which were confusing in the extreme. I have consulted all other Indexes and Reference Lists that I could procure, and have carefully examined the periodicals in which it was possible that such articles could be found.
My greatest light, however, came from responses to personal appeals, to those in the North, South, East, and West of the Country, who enlightened me in particular directions. I needed assistance, not only to discover the articles, but more particularly to secure the articles to read, or to procure proper persons to read the few articles that I could not obtain. When valuable books were sent me, by express, from distant College Libraries, that I might read for myself, I realised the bond there is between Wordsworthians.
I cannot begin to speak of the delight that I have had in this work, delight because of the response I have met with, and in opening up unknown and rich veins of criticism. I have learned too, that Wordsworth has many enthusiastic followers in America.
I have included in the Bibliography the accounts of visits paid to Wordsworth by certain well-known Americans, a half-dozen poems on Wordsworth, and three or four unpublished Lectures.
I am exceedingly grateful to the many who (to my surprise) have answered my questions, and have given me of their valuable time. I am especially indebted to Mr. George P. Philes, of Philadelphia, and also to Mr. F. Saunders of the Astor Library, New York. Dean Murray of Princeton rendered me exceedingly gracious service, and but for Mr. Edwin H. Woodruff of Stanford University, California, I should not have known how or where to begin my investigations.
In all probability my work is not perfect. I would that it were. I only know that I have been enabled, by enthusiasm alone, to lay a foundation for Wordsworth Bibliography in America, that may be an assistance to future scholars, and will aid the next Wordsworthian who is brave enough to build enduringly.
C. M. St. John.
I AMERICAN EDITIONS OF WORDSWORTH
INCLUDING A FEW WORKS WHICH ARE NOT STRICTLY EDITIONS OF WORDSWORTH
I have endeavoured to include in this list every distinctive American edition of Wordsworth, published during the poet’s lifetime, and since his death. There are many others, issued with the imprints of honourable publishers; which, upon investigation, were found to be English reprints; to say nothing of those editions made from worn-out plates, and issued by houses of less reputation for honourableness. I was puzzled to account for so many editions of Matthew Arnold’s Selections, some of them bearing the imprint of Harper Brothers, some of Macmillan, and several of Crowell. The Harpers wrote me that these various publications were possible in view of the fact that there was no copyright of the work, and that all of them might properly be called American Editions. I have not placed those bearing the Macmillan imprint, of course, among purely American editions. Nor have I included the several cheap ones of Crowell. The one of Crowell, given in the list, is copyrighted by the Crowell Company.
The fact that the introduction of Wordsworth’s poetry into America is so easily authenticated, and that the history of it is so concise, is my apology for deviating from ordinary bibliographical rule in including among the regular editions certain numbers of America’s first Literary Journal, and two or three other volumes.
I have confined myself to a simple chronological arrangement of the Editions, with place of imprint, name of publisher, number, and size of volumes. This makes the most convenient list for easy reference, especially as I have tried to mention technical points of difference.
C. M. St. John.
1
1801. The Port Folio. (Edited by Joseph Dennie.) Philadelphia. 4to.
The following poems appeared in “The Port Folio,” vol. i., before the publication of the First American Edition of “Lyrical Ballads”—
(1) Simon Lee, p. 24.[478]
(2) The Last of the Flock, p. 48.
(3) The Thorn, p. 94.
(4) The Mad Mother, p. 232.
(5) Anecdote for Fathers, p. 232.
(6) Ellen Irwin, p. 391.
(7) Strange Fits of Passion, etc., p. 392.
(8) The Waterfall and the Eglantine, p. 408.
(9) Lucy Gray, p. 408.
(10) Andrew Jones, p. 408.
2
1801. Introduction to the English Reader. By Lindley Murray. Philadelphia: Johnson and Warner. 12mo.[479]
3
1802. Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems. In two volumes. By W. Wordsworth.
Quam nihil ad genium, Papiniane, tuum!
From the London second edition. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by James Humphreys. 2 vols. in one. 12mo.[480]
4
1823. The American First Class Book. By John Pierpont. Boston: William B. Fowle. 1 vol. 12mo.[481]
5
1824. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Boston: published by Cummings, Hilliard and Co. 4 vols. 12mo.[482]
6
1833. Sketch of the Genius and Character of William Wordsworth. With Selections from his “Lyrical Ballads.”[483] Philadelphia: Greenbak’s Periodical Library. Vol. ii. pp. 181-202.
7
1835. Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems. New York: R. Bartlett and S. Raynor. 16mo. pp. 17-244.
1835. Same Title. Boston: R. Bartlett and S. Raynor. 16mo; also, Boston: James Munroe and Co. 16mo.
1835. Same Title. Philadelphia. 12mo.
8
1836. Yarrow Revisited. Second Edition. Boston: William D. Ticknor. 16mo.
9
1836. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. The first complete American, from the last London, edition. New Haven: Peck and Newton. In 1 vol. Royal 8vo.[484]
10
1836. The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes, etc. Edited by Henry Reed. With Portrait. Philadelphia: Kay and Brother. Royal 8vo; also, by James Kay and Brother.[485]
1839. Same Title. Philadelphia: Kay and Brother. Boston: Munroe and Co. Pittsburg: Kay and Co.
1844. Same Title. Philadelphia: James Kay jun.[486]
11
1842. Wordsworth’s Poems. In “The New World,” vol. iv. No. 16. New York: Park Benjamin, Editor. Sat. April 9, Sonnet Written at Florence; April 16, Address to the Clouds, Suggested by a Picture of the Bird of Paradise; Maternal Grief (“New Poems, never before published”). May 7, Guilt and Sorrow (“From proof sheets received in advance”).[487]
12
1843. Poems from the Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Selected by Henry Reed.
Go forth, my little Book; pursue thy way; Go forth, and please the gentle and the good.
Philadelphia: John Locken. 32mo.
(Entered according to the Act of Congress in 1841.)
1846. Same Title. Philadelphia: Uriah Hunt and Son. 32mo.
Same Title. New York: Leavitt and Co.[488]
1853. Same Title. New York: Leavitt and Allen. 24mo.
1856. Same Title.[489] New York: Leavitt and Allen.
13
1847. Wordsworth’s Complete Poetical and Prose Works.[490] In 5 vols. (In Press.) Philadelphia: Kay and Troutman. 12mo.
14
1849. Poems of William Wordsworth: with an Introductory Essay on his Life and Writings. By H. T. Tuckerman. New York: C. S. Francis and Co. 12mo. pp. 21-356; also, Boston: J. H. Francis.[491]
15
1849. The Excursion: a Poem. New York: C. S. Francis and Co. 12mo.
1850. The Excursion, etc. New York: C. S. Francis and Co. 12mo.
1852-55. The above was again republished.
16
1850. The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet’s Mind. New York: Appleton and Co. 12mo.
1850. The Prelude, etc. Philadelphia: George S. Appleton and Co. 12mo.
17
1850. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co. 12mo. Reprinted in 1857 and 1859.
1859. Same Title. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co. 16mo.
18
1851. The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Edited by Henry Reed. Royal 8vo. Philadelphia: James Kay jun. and Brother. Also, Kay and Troutman. Also, Troutman and Hayes. Also, Hayes and Zell. Also, Porter and Coates.[492]
1852. The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Edited by Henry Reed. 8vo. Philadelphia: Troutman and Hayes.
1860. The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Edited by Henry Reed. Royal 8vo. pp. 727.[493]
19
1854. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, with a Memoir.[494] Boston: Little, Brown and Co. Also, New York: Evans and Dickenson. Also, Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grant and Co. 18mo. 7 vols.
20
1855. Poetical Works of W. Wordsworth. Portrait. Boston: Crosby and Nichols(?) 12mo.
21
1855. The Prelude. New York: Appleton and Co. 12mo. Second Edition.
22
1860. Poetical Works of Wordsworth.[495] 2 vols. New York: 12mo.
23
1863. Selections From Wordsworth, with an Essay by H. T. Tuckerman. Philadelphia. 32mo.[496]
1863. Same Title. Boston.
24
1865. Poems of Nature and Sentiment. By William Wordsworth. Elegantly illustrated. Philadelphia: E. H. Butler and Co.[497]
25
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth.[498] A new edition. Boston: Crosby and Nichols. 12mo.
1867. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. A new edition. Boston: Crosby and Ainsworth. New York: Oliver S. Felt. 16mo. pp. 539.[499]
26
1870. The Excursion: a Poem. A new edition. New York: J. Miller. 16mo.
27
1871-75. The Howe Memorial Primer, in raised letters for the Blind. Wordsworth’s Poetical Works, with a Memoir. Boston. 7 vols. 16mo. Portrait.
28
1876. Wordsworth’s Poems. Selected and Prepared for Schools. Edited by H. N. Hudson. Boston: Ginn and Co. 12mo. “Text-book of Prose and Poetry Series.”
1882. Same Title. In paper. Hudson’s Pamphlet Selections of Poetry. (No. VI. Wordsworth.)
29
1877. Favorite Poems. Vest-pocket Series. Boston: Osgood. Illustrated. 32mo.
1877. Favorite Poems. Illustrated. Boston, Massachusetts. (Printed at Cambridge.) 16mo.
30
1877. The Poetical Works. New edition. Boston: Hurd and Houghton. 8vo. 3 vols.
31
1878. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, with Memoir. 7 vols. in 3. Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Co. Riverside Press. 8vo; also,
1880. Same Title.[500]
32
1879. Wordsworth’s Poems. Chosen and Edited by Matthew Arnold. Franklin Square Library. New York: Harper and Brother. Paper 4to.
1880. Another Edition.
1891. Another Edition.
33
1881. The Excursion, with a Biographical Sketch. English Classic Series. New York: Clark and Maynard. 16mo.
1889. Same Title. With Explanatory Notes. New York: Effingham, Maynard and Co.
34
1881-82. Favorite Poems. By William Wordsworth. In Modern Classics, No. VII. Illustrated. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. 32mo.
35
1884. Ode, Intimations of Immortality. By William Wordsworth. Illustrated. Boston: D. Lothrop Company. Small 4to. Copyright by D. Lothrop.
36
1884. Poems by William Wordsworth. Selected and Prepared for use in Schools. (From Hudson’s Text-Book of Poetry.) Section I. Boston: Ginn, Heath and Co. 12mo.
37
1888. Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet’s Mind. With Notes by A. J. George. Boston: D. C. Heath and Co. 12mo.
38
1888. Bits of Burnished Gold, from William Wordsworth. Compiled by Rose Porter. New York: A. D. F. Randolph and Co. 12mo.
39
1889. Selections From Wordsworth. With Notes by A. J. George. Boston: D. C. Heath and Co. 12mo.
40
1889. Melodies From Nature. (From Wordsworth.) Illustrated. Boston: D. Lothrop Company. 4to.
41
1889. Select Poems of William Wordsworth.[501] Edited, with Notes, by W. J. Rolfe. With Engravings. New York: Harper Brothers. Square 16mo.
42
1889. Poems by William Wordsworth. Selected and Prepared for use in School. Paper. (From Hudson’s Text-Book of Poetry.) Section II. 12mo. Boston: Ginn and Co.
43
1890. Select Poems From Wordsworth, with Explanatory Notes. Edited by James H. Dillard. New York: Effingham, Maynard and Co. 12mo.
44
1890. Pastorals, Lyrics and Sonnets from the Poetic Works of William Wordsworth. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. 16mo. White and Gold Series.
45
1891. A Selection of the Sonnets of William Wordsworth.[502] With numerous Illustrations. By A. Parsons. New York: Harper Brothers. 4to.
46
1891. Wordsworth for the Young. Selections. Illustrated. With an Introduction for parents and teachers by Cynthia Morgan St. John. Boston: D. Lothrop Company. Small 4to. 153 pp.
47
1892. Wordsworth’s Prefaces and Essays on Poetry. Edited by A. J. George. (Heath’s English Classics.) Boston: D. C. Heath and Co. 12mo.
48
1892. Poems of Wordsworth. Chosen and Edited by Matthew Arnold. Illustrated by Edmund H. Garrett. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and Co. (Copyright 1892 by T. Y. Crowell.)
II REPRINTS, AND BOOKS, BOTH ENGLISH AND AMERICAN
A Bibliography of Wordsworth in America is not complete without some reference to the many editions of Wordsworth, and of works pertaining to him, which have—for the most part—appeared simultaneously in England and America. These works cannot properly be termed American, but they have been welcomed, and they have also supplied a want, on this side of the Atlantic. The editions are confined, for the most part, to the last twenty years. I have endeavoured to select those which are of most value.
C. M. St. John.
1
1859. Wordsworth’s Pastoral Poems. Illustrated. New York: D. Appleton and Co. 12mo.
1875. Same Title. New York: Putnam. 12mo.
2
1859. Poems by William Wordsworth. Selected and Edited by Robert Aris Willmott. Illustrated with 100 Designs by Birket Foster and others. London and New York: George Routledge and Co. 4to.
1870. The above republished.
3
1869. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Globe Edition. Square 12mo. Philadelphia: Lippincott and Co.
4
1874. Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland. By Dorothy Wordsworth. Edited by J. C. Shairp. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons. (Printed at the Edinburgh University Press.) 12mo.
5
1880. Wordsworth’s Poems. Chosen and Edited by Matthew Arnold. Large Paper Edition. London and New York: Macmillan and Co. 8vo.
1892. Same Title. With Steel Portrait. Printed on India paper. London and New York: Macmillan and Co. 8vo.
6
1881. William Wordsworth: a Biography with Selections from Prose and Poetry. By A. J. Symington. Boston: Roberts Brothers. 2 vols. 16mo.
7
1885. Ode on Immortality and Lines on Tintern Abbey. London and New York: Cassell and Co. 12mo. (Popular Illustrated Series.)
8
1886. Pastoral Poems. London and New York: Cassell and Co. 4to.
9
1887. Memorials of Coleorton. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by William Knight. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. 12mo. (Printed at the Edinburgh University Press.)
10
1887. Through the Wordsworth Country. By William Knight. London and New York: Scribner and Welford. Engraving. 8vo.
11
1888. The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. With an Introduction by John Morley. London and New York: Macmillan and Co. Crown 8vo.
12
1888. The Recluse. London and New York: Macmillan and Co. 16mo.
13
1889. Wordsworthiana. Edited by William Knight. London and New York: Macmillan and Co. 16mo.
14
1889. Poetical Works, with Memoir. Illustrated. 8 vols. New York: A. C. Armstrong and Son. 16mo. (Printed at the University Press, Glasgow.)
15
1889. Selections from Wordsworth. By William Knight, and other Members of the Wordsworth Society. With Preface and Notes. New York: Scribner and Welford. 8vo.
16
1889. Wordsworth’s Poetical Works. Edited by William Knight. New York: Macmillan and Co. 8 vols. 8vo. (First published in Edinburgh 1882-89.)
17
1889. Life of William Wordsworth. By William Knight. New York (and London): Macmillan and Co. 3 vols. 8vo. (First published in Edinburgh, in 1889.)
18
1891. William Wordsworth. By Elizabeth Wordsworth. New York: Scribner. 18mo. (Also London: Percival and Co.)
19
1889. Early Poems by William Wordsworth. Edited by J. R. Tutin. London, etc., and New York: George Routledge and Sons. (Routledge’s Pocket Library.)
20
1890. Dove Cottage, Wordsworth’s Home from 1800 to 1808. By Stopford A. Brooke. Small paper. London and New York: Macmillan and Co.
21
1891. Wordsworth’s The White Doe of Rylstone, etc. Edited with Introduction and Notes by William Knight. (Clarendon Press Series.) London and New York: Macmillan and Co.
22
1892. Wordsworth’s Lyrics and Sonnets. Selected and Edited by C. K. Shorter. London: David Stott. New York: Macmillan and Co. 32mo.
23
1892. Wordsworth’s Poetical Works. Edited with Memoir by E. Dowden. 7 vols. 16mo. London: George Bell and Sons. New York: 112 Fourth Avenue.
24
Gleanings from Wordsworth. Edited by J. Robertson. Vest-pocket Edition. New York: White, Stokes and Allen. (Printed at the University Press, Glasgow.)
25
We are Seven. By William Wordsworth.[503] With Drawings by Mary L. Grow. Small 4to. New York: E. P. Dutton and Co.
26
Ode. Intimations of Immortality. With Biographical Sketch and Notes. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., “Riverside Literature Series,” No. 76. March 1895.
III BOOKS CONTAINING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, AND CRITICAL ESSAYS
The Writers are arranged in Alphabetical Order
1
1867. Alger, W. R. The Genius of Solitude. Boston: Roberts Brothers. 16mo. Wordsworth, p. 277.
2
1859-71. Allibone, S. A. Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. 3 vols. Imperial 8vo. Wordsworth, vol. iii. pp. 2843-2849.
3
1884. Burroughs, J. “Fresh Fields.” Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. 16mo. In the Wordsworth Country, p. 161.[504]
4
1878. Calvert, G. H. Wordsworth; A Biographic, Aesthetic Study. Boston: Lee-Sheperd. 16mo.
5
1863. Calvert, G. H. Scenes and Thoughts in Europe. Boston: 16mo.[505]
6
1873. Channing, W. Ellery. Address before the Mercantile Library Company of Philadelphia, May 11, 1841. Also in his “Complete Works.” Boston.[506]
7
1895. Cheney, John Vance. Thoughts on Poetry and the Poets. Chicago. Chapter X. is on Wordsworth.
8
1879. Deshler, C. D. Afternoons with the Poets. New York: Harper and Brothers. 12mo. Wordsworth.
9
1871. Fields, J. T. Yesterdays with Authors. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co.; also,
1889. Wordsworth, A Sketch, p. 253.
10
1838. Frost, John. Select Works of the British Poets, with Biographical Sketches. Philadelphia: Thomas Wardle. Wordsworth.
11
1849. Graham, G. F. English Synonyms. New York: D. Appleton and Co. Edited with an Introduction and Illustrative Authorities. By Henry Reed.[507]
12
1854. Giles, H. T. Illustrations of Genius. Boston: Ticknor and Fields. 16mo. William Wordsworth, pp. 239-266.
13
1886. Griswold, H. T. Home Life of Great Authors. Chicago. 18mo. William Wordsworth, p. 43.
14
1849. Griswold, R. W. Sacred Poets of England and America. New York. Wordsworth.
15
1842. Griswold, R. W. Poets and Poetry of England. Philadelphia: Carey and Hunt. A Review and Selections.
16
Hodgkins, Louise M. Guide to Nineteenth Century Authors. Boston. Wordsworth Bibliography.
17
1884. Hudson, H. N. Studies in Wordsworth. Boston: Little, Brown and Co.[508]
18
1886. Johnson, C. F. Three Americans and Three Englishmen. New York. Wordsworth.
19
1864. Lowell, J. R. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Boston: Little, Brown and Co. 4 vols. Vol. 1.—A Sketch of Wordsworth’s Life.
20
1876. Lowell, J. R. Among my Books. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. Wordsworth,[509] pp. 201-251.
21
1887. Lowell, J. R. Democracy and other Addresses. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. Wordsworth,[510] 22 pp.
22
1885. Mason, E. T. Personal Traits of British Authors. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. William Wordsworth, pp. 7-55.
What follows is due to American Enterprise, but it is, of course, not strictly American.
C. M. St. John.
23
1883. Macdonald, George. The Imagination and other Essays (“Wordsworth’s Poetry,” pp. 245-263). Boston: D. Lothrop and Co.
24
1881. Myers, F. W. H. William Wordsworth. (“English Men of Letters Series.”) New York: Harper and Brothers. 12mo.
1884. Same Title. New York: J. W. Lovell. 12mo.
1889. Same Title. New York. Harper and Brothers.
25
1838. Osborn, Laughton. The Vision of Rubeta.[511] Boston: Weeks, Jordan and Co. 8vo.
26
1846. Ossoli, Margaret Fuller. Art, Literature, and the Drama. Boston. Wordsworth.[512]
27
1885. Phillips, Maud Gillette. A Popular Manual of English Literature. New York: Harper and Brothers. Vol. ii. pp. 217-264.
28
1851. Reed, Henry. Memoirs of Wordsworth. By C. Wordsworth. Edited by Henry Reed. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields.[513]
29
1857. Reed, Henry. Lectures on the British Poets. In two vols. Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger. Vol. ii. pp. 199-231. Lecture XV.—Wordsworth.
30
1870. Reed, Henry. Lectures on the British Poets. Philadelphia: Claxton, Reinsen and Haffelfinger. Essay on the English Sonnet, vol. ii. pp. 235-272.[514]
31
1887. Saunders, Frederick. Story of some Famous Books. New York: Armstrong and Son. William Wordsworth, p. 125.
32
Saunders, Frederick. Evenings with Sacred Poets. New York: Randolph and Co. Wordsworth.[515]
33
1894. Scudder, Horace E. Childhood in Literature and Art. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. In the chapter entitled “In English Literature and Art,” Wordsworth is dealt with (chap. vi. pp. 145-157).[516]
34
1895. Scudder, Vidad. The Life of the Spirit in Modern English Poets. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. Crown 8vo.
35
1892. Stedman, C. E. Nature and Elements of Poetry. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co.[517]
36
1846. Tuckerman, H. T. Thoughts on the Poets. New York. Genius and Writings of Wordsworth.
37
1882. Welsh, A. H. Development of English Literature and Language. Chicago. Wordsworth, vol. ii. pp. 330-339.
38
1850. Whipple, E. P. Essays and Reviews. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. Wordsworth, vol. i. p. 222.[518]
39
1871. Whipple, E. P. Literature and Life. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. Wordsworth, p. 253.[519]
40
1854. Willis, N. P. Famous Persons and Places. New York: Charles Scribner.[520]
IV REVIEW AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES ON WORDSWORTH PUBLISHED IN AMERICA
From 1801 to 1840
In examining American Reviews and Magazines, for articles on Wordsworth, I find—after much laborious search—only some insignificant notices of his poems, of no critical or literary merit.
I have carefully read each article which appears in this list, and I add brief explanatory notes, indicative of the general tenor of the articles. It was disheartening to find that many of the references to Wordsworth, in Poole’s elaborate Index to Periodical Literature, were inaccurate and misleading; and that nearly all the articles on Wordsworth published in Harper’s Monthly Magazine for 1850 were “conveyed” from contemporary English journals.
1
1801. The Port Folio. Vol. i.
Memoranda regarding the first publication of “Lyrical Ballads” in America.
1801. December, p. 407. The Original Prospectus of “Lyrical Ballads.”[521] (James Humphreys publisher.)
1801. P. 408.[522]
1802. Vol. ii. p. 62.[523]
1803. Vol. iii. p. 288.[524]
1803. P. 320. Note on the poem beginning,
“A whirl-blast from behind the hill.”
1804. Vol. iv. p. 87. Announcement that the editor wishes to obtain a copy of Descriptive Sketches (1798) from some publisher or reader.
1804. P. 96.[525]
2
1802. The Philadelphia Gazette and Daily Advertiser. (Published by Samuel Relf.) Friday, Jan. 15, “Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads.” (The publisher’s advertisement of the First American Edition.)
3
1819. Dana, R. H.[526] North American Review. Vol. xxiii. p. 276. In review of Hazlitt’s English Poets.
4
1824. North American Review. Vol. xviii. p. 356.[527]
5
1824. United States Literary Gazette. Vol. i. p. 245.[528]
6
1825. The Atlantic Magazine, vol. ii. pp. 334-348.
7
1827. Christian Monthly Spectator. Vol. ix. p. 244. (A short article on Wordsworth.)
8
1832. Prescott, W. H. North American Review. Vol. xxxv. pp. 171, 173-176. (In a “Review of English Literature of Nineteenth Century,” is an important reference to Wordsworth.)
9
1836. Edwards, B. B. American Biblical Repository. Vol. vii. pp. 187-204.[529]
10
1836. American Quarterly Review. Vol. xix. p. 66.[530]
11
1836. American Quarterly Review. Vol. xix. pp. 420-442.[531]
12
1836. Felton, C. C. The Christian Examiner. Vol. xix. p. 375.[532]
13
1836. Porter, Noah. Christian Quarterly Spectator.[533] Vol. viii. pp. 127-151.
14
Christian Monthly Spectator. Vol xviii. p. 1.[534]
15
1837. “Waldie’s” Octavo Library. (Edited by John J. Smith.)[535]
16
1837. “Waldie’s” Octavo Library. March 21.[536]
17
1837. Southern Literary Messenger. Vol. iii. p. 705. “By a Virginian.”[537]
18
1837. Whipple, E. P. The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth[538] (1837).
19
1839. New York Review. Vol. iv. pp. 1-71.[539]
20
1839. American Biblical Repository.[540] Vol. i. pp. 206-239. (Second edition.)
21
1839. Boston Quarterly Review. Vol. ii. pp. 137-169. (A review of “Wordsworth’s Poetical Works,” London, 1832.)
22
1839. American Methodist Review.[541] Vol. xxi. p. 449.
V CRITICISMS AND REVIEWS IN PERIODICALS FROM 1840 TO 1870
Arranged as far as possible according to merit. It is difficult to distinguish between the first twelve or fifteen. After them I have placed the articles in the Literary World. Most of them have not been noted in other lists, and are especially interesting, as being additional tributes of Wordsworth’s intimate friend, Henry Reed. I am indebted to Judge Henry Reed of Philadelphia, for more carefully examining his father’s papers, and to the Literary World for ascertaining, as far as possible, all that his father wrote on Wordsworth. The criticisms that immediately follow are not without interest. The last half dozen are given, for the most part, because they appear in Poole’s Index, or in other lists. I have omitted two or three which are of no value whatever.
C. M. St. John.
1
1844. Whipple, E. P. North American Review.[542] Vol. lix. pp. 352-384.
2
1857. Haven, Gilbert. Methodist Quarterly Review. Vol. xxxix. p. 362.[543]
3
1851. Passmore, J. C. The Church Review. Vol. iv. pp. 169-188.[544]
4
1866. Alger, W. R. Monthly Religious Magazine. Vol. xxxvi. p. 294.
5
1850. Muzzey, A. B. The Christian Examiner. Vol. xlix. p. 100. (The title of this article is “Wordsworth, the Christian Poet.”)
6
1851. Goodwin, H. M. The New Englander. Vol. xlvii. p. 309. (Title, “Wordsworth as a Spiritual Teacher.”)
7
1851. North American Review. Vol. lxxiii. p. 473.[545]
8
1851. Mountford, W. The Christian Examiner. Vol. li. p. 275.[546]
9
1851. Porter, Noah. The New Englander Magazine. Vol. ix. p. 583.[547]
10
1851. Wight, Orlando Williams. American Whig Review. Vol. xiv. pp. 68-81.[548]
11
1851. Wight, Orlando Williams. American Whig Review. Vol. xiii. pp. 448-458.[549]
12
1854. Presbyterian Quarterly Review. Vol. ii. pp. 643-663.[550] Article 1.
13
1854. Presbyterian Quarterly Review. Vol. iii. pp. 69-88.[551] Article 2.
14
1841. Tuckerman, H. Southern Literary Messenger. Vol. vii. p. 105.
15
1850. Literary World. Vol. vi. p. 485. “William Wordsworth.”[552]
16
1850. Reed, Henry. Literary World. Vol. vi. pp. 581, 582. On Wordsworth.
17
1850. Reed, Henry. Literary World. Vol. vii. pp. 205, 206. A second short article.
18
1850. Literary World. “The Prelude.” Vol. vii. p. 167.[553]
19
1850. Literary World. “Visit to Wordsworth’s Grave.” Vol. vii. p. 225.[554]
20
1850. Spencer, J. A. Literary World. “Visit to Wordsworth.” November 23.[555]
21
1851. Literary World. Vols. viii. ix. (May 24, June 14, July 12, August 2.)[556] Reviews of Christopher Wordsworth’s Memoirs of his uncle.
22
1853. Reed, Henry. Literary World. Vol. xii. June 25.[557]
23
1850. Southern Quarterly Review. Vol. xviii. p. 1. Review of the Poetical Works of Wordsworth. London: Moxon, 1845.
24
1856. United States Democratic Review. Vol. vi. pp. 281-295. (New Series.) Article 1. “Of Wordsworth’s life, beginning at Bristol.”
25
1856. United States Democratic Review. Vol. vi. p. 363. (New Series.) Article 2.
26
1850. Graham Magazine. Vol. i. pp. 105-116. Supposed to be written by Charles J. Peterson. (Signed P.) Review of the life and poetry of Wordsworth, written by one who confessed to an admiration for Wordsworth’s genius bordering on veneration.
C. M. St. John.
27
1878. American Journal of Education. Wordsworth and Cambridge. Vol. xxviii. p. 426.[558]
28
1843. United States Democratic Review. Vol. xii. p. 158.[559]
29
1836-63. Christian Review. Vol. xvi. p. 434. “Wordsworth as a Religious Poet.”
30
1844. Cuyler, T. L. Godey’s Lady’s Book. Vol. xxviii. (January). “On the English Lakes and Wordsworth.”
31
1850. International Magazine. Vol. i. p. 271. “A Review of The Prelude, from The Examiner.”
32
1855. Brownson’s Quarterly Review. Vol. xii. p. 525. “Wordsworth’s Poetical Works.”
33
1850. Graham Magazine. Vol. i. pp. 322, 323.[560]
34
1842. United States Democratic Review. Vol. x. pp. 272-288. (New Series.)[561]
35
1865. North American Review. Vol. c. p. 508. Boston: Little, Brown and Co.
36
1850. Southern Literary Messenger. Vol. xvi. p. 474.[562]
37
1851. Harper’s Monthly Magazine. Vol. iii. p. 502.[563]
38
1845. Bowen, F. North American Review. Vol. lxi. p. 217.[564]
39
1863. Alger, W. R. North American Review. Vol. xcvi. p. 141.[565]
40
1850. Southern Literary Messenger. Vol. xvi. p. 637.[566]
41
1863. Ward, J. H. North American Review. Vol. xcvii. p. 387.
42
1853. The National Magazine. Vol. iii. No. 7, “An Estimate of Wordsworth.”
43
1853. The Christian Observer. Vol. 1. pp. 307-381.[567]
44
1858. “The Genius of Wordsworth,” in the “Editor’s Table” of Russell’s Magazine. Charleston, S.E. Vol. iii. pp. 271-274.
VI CRITICISMS AND REVIEWS IN PERIODICALS FROM 1870 TO 1895
These are not chronologically arranged by Mrs. St. John, but see her note to Section V.—Ed.
1
1882. Dewitt, Dr. John. Presbyterian Review. Vol. iii. p. 241.[568]
2
1884. Burroughs, John. The Century Magazine. Vol. v. p. 418. This is entitled “Wordsworth’s Country.”
3
1880. Cranch, C. P. The Atlantic Monthly. Vol. xlv. p. 241. Entitled “Wordsworth.” A review of the 1880 Poetical Works (Boston). The writer notes what he considers the chief excellency as well as defects of Wordsworth’s poetry.
4
1888. Murray, J. O. The Homiletic Review. Vol. xvi. pp. 295-304. Title, “The Study of Wordsworth’s Poetry.”
5
1890. Pattison, T. H. The Baptist Review. Vol. xii. p. 265. “The Religious Influence of Wordsworth.”
6
1889. Hutton, Lawrence. Harper’s Monthly Magazine. Vol. lxxviii.[569] (in Literary Notes).
7
1880-1. Conway, Moncure D. Harper’s Monthly Magazine. “The English Lakes and their Genii.” Vol. lxii. pp. 7, 161, 339.
8
1883. Pedder, H. C. The Manhattan. Vol. ii. pp. 418-433.[570]
9
1876. Yarnall, Ellis. Lippincott’s Magazine. Vol. xviii. pp. 543-554, 669-683. “Walks and Visits in Wordsworth’s Country.” Written in the summer of 1855 and 1857.
10
1871. Fields, J. T. The Atlantic Monthly. Vol. xxviii. p. 750. On Wordsworth, in an article entitled “Our Whispering Gallery.” The same article is cut down in Yesterdays with Authors.[571]
11
1892. Parsons, Eugene. The Examiner. Vol. lxx. p. 1. On “Tennyson and Wordsworth.”
12
1888. Williams, T. C. Andover Review. Vol. ix. p. 30.
13
1889. Noble, Fred Perry. The Homiletic Review. Vol. xviii. p. 306. “The Value of Wordsworth to the Preacher.”
14
1873. Himes, John A. Lutheran Quarterly Review. Vol. iii. p. 252. “The Religious Faith of Wordsworth and Tennyson as shown in their Poems.”
15
1881. Johnson, E. E. American Church Review. Vol. xxxiii. p. 139. “Influence of Wordsworth’s Poetry.”
16
1886. Coan, T. M. The New Princeton Review. Vol. i. pp. 297-319. “Wordsworth’s Passion.”
17
1889. Vedder, H. C. The New York Examiner, August 28. “The Decline of Wordsworth.”[572]
18
1877. Coan, T. M. The Galaxy. Vol. xxiii. pp. 322-336. “Wordsworth’s Corrections.”[573]
19
1881. Bowen, F. F. The Dial. Vol. i. p. 21. “A Review of Myers’ Wordsworth.”
20
1881. Gerhart, R. L. Reformed Quarterly Review. Vol. xxviii. p. 344. “Wordsworth and his Art.”
21
1887. Woodberry, G. E. The Nation. Vol. xlv. p. 487. “Wordsworth and the Beaumonts.”
22
1881. Brownell, W. C. The Nation. Vol. xxxii. p. 153. “Myers’ Account of Wordsworth.”
23
1872. Croffut, W. A. Lakeside Monthly. Vol. viii. pp. 418-425. “Wordsworth.”
24
1895. Thorpe, F. W. The Philadelphia Call. “The Home of Wordsworth.” Autobiographic and critical.
25
1879. Appleton’s Journal. Vol. xxii. p. 223. “How to Popularise Wordsworth.”
26
1874. De-Vere, A. The Catholic World. Vol. xix. p. 795. “Recollections of Wordsworth.”
27
1875. De-Vere, A. The Catholic World. Vol. xxii. p. 329.
28
1891. Page, H. A. The Century Magazine. No. 1. pp. 453-864. “Wordsworth and De Quincey. With hitherto unpublished letters.”[574]
29
1853. The National Magazine. Vol. iii. pp. 36-40.
30
1853. Brownson’s Quarterly Review. Vol. xii. 525.
31
1896. Theodore W. Hunt in Bibliotheca Sacra. No. 66. “William Wordsworth.”
32
1896. J. W. Bray. The Literary Democracy of Wordsworth in “Poet Love.” Vol. iii. No. 6.
VII VISITS TO WORDSWORTH BY EMINENT AMERICANS
The following books record visits made by eminent Americans to Wordsworth.
C. M. St. John.
1
1863. Hawthorne, N. Our Old Home, and English Note-Books. Vol. ii. pp. 24-56, etc.; also,
1883. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. “A Visit to Wordsworth.”
2
1856. Emerson, R. W. English Traits. Boston: James Munroe and Co. pp. 24-31; also,
1881. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. Visit to Wordsworth, in chapter entitled “First Visit to England.”
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1876. Ticknor, George. Life, Letters, and Journals. Boston: James R. Osgood and Co. 2 vols. Vol. i. pp. 287, 288, etc. Vol. ii. p. 167, etc.
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1836. Dewey, Orville. The Old World and the New. Boston: 2 vols. pp. 89-96.
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1884. Bryant, W. C. Prose Works. In a chapter on “Poets and Poetry of the English Language” (New York: D. Appleton and Co.) a few pages deal with Wordsworth.
VIII A FEW POEMS ON WORDSWORTH
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1846. Wallace, W. Poem on Wordsworth. New York: 12mo.
2
1850. Field, James T. Graham Magazine (October). “Wordsworth.”
3
1850. Alexander, W. Graham Magazine (November), p. 221. “Wordsworth. (A Sonnet.)”
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1850. H. M. R. Harpers Magazine. “Sonnet on the Death of Wordsworth.” Vol. i. p. 218.
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1850. E. A. W. Literary World. “Sonnet on Wordsworth.” Vol. vii. p. 255.
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1874. Whittier, J. G. Whittier’s Works. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. “Poem on Wordsworth. Written on a blank leaf of Wordsworth’s Memoirs, 1851.” Vol. iv. p. 66.
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1890. Scollard, Clinton (?) Northern Christian Advocate. “The Poet’s Seat. A Sonnet on Wordsworth. Written at Ambleside, 1890.”
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1893. “To Wordsworth, after reading his XXX Ecclesiastical Sonnets” in The Echo and the Poet, by William Cushing Bamburgh. N. Y. 1893.
IX UNPUBLISHED LECTURES ON WORDSWORTH
Essays of Special Interest
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1892. Corson, Hiram. “The Divine Immanence in Nature, and the relationship of the human spirit thereto, as presented in Wordsworth’s Poetry.”
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Winchester, C. T. “The Lake District and Wordsworth.”
3
Prentiss, George L. “Hurstmonceaux Rectory and Rydal Mount.” (Personal Recollections.)