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The Prose Works of William Wordsworth / For the First Time Collected, With Additions from Unpublished Manuscripts. In Three Volumes.

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The three-volume collection assembles the author's prose on politics, ethics, aesthetics, and literary criticism, combining public addresses, essays, letters, speeches, prefaces, and previously unpublished manuscripts. It opens with political and moral writings including commentary on social measures and education, continues with essays on poetic principles, literary biography, epitaphs, and descriptive pieces such as a guide to the Lake District, and concludes with extensive notes, annotations, and illustrations explicating the poems. The selections range from polemical pamphlets to intimate correspondence, offering theoretical reflections, practical proposals, and editorial commentary intended to clarify poetic practice and social conviction.

[33] The State of the Protestant Religion in Germany, a series of discourses preached before the University of Cambridge, by the Rev. Hugh James Rose; Lond. 1825: and his Letter to the Bishop of London, in reply to Mr. Pusey's work on that subject; Lond. 1829. G.

[34] Memoirs, vol. ii. pp. 180-3. G.

[35] Memoirs, vol. ii. pp. 183-92. G.

[36] Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 193. G.

THE PROSE WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.

FOR THE FIRST TIME COLLECTED,

WITH ADDITIONS FROM UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS.

Edited, with Preface, Notes and Illustrations,

BY THE REV. ALEXANDER B. GROSART, ST. GEORGE'S, BLACKBURN, LANCASHIRE.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

AESTHETICAL AND LITERARY.

LONDON: EDWARD MOXON, SON, AND CO. 1 AMEN CORNER, PATERNOSTER ROW.

1876.

AMS Press, Inc. New York 10003 1967

Manufactured in the United States of America


CONTENTS OF VOL. II


*** A star [*] designates publication herein for the first time   G.


AESTHETICAL AND LITERARY.


I. OF LITERARY BIOGRAPHY AND MONUMENTS.

(a) A LETTER TO A FRIEND OF ROBERT BURNS, 1816.
(b) LETTER TO A FRIEND ON MONUMENTS TO LITERARY MEN, 1819.
(c) LETTER TO JOHN PEACE OF BRISTOL, 1844.



NOTE.
For details on the several portions of this division, see the Preface in Vol. I. G.


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.