[476] There are numerous notes and letters on Wordsworth in such Journals as The Athenæum, The Academy, Notes and Queries, the examination of which will repay perusal. In Notes and Queries there are at least twenty-four valuable ones which cannot be recorded here.—Ed.
[477] A criticism of the “dancing daffodils.”—Ed.
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.
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]
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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]
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1843. Poems from the Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Selected by Henry Reed.
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.
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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]
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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.
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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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.)