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]
[504] A reprint of the article was published in _The Century Magazine_,
1884.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[505] Not of much importance--the author praises Wordsworth and
criticises Jeffrey.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[506] About the same in the “Address” as in the “Complete Works.”
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[507] Contains four hundred quotations from Wordsworth.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[508] Contains 258 pages on Wordsworth.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[509] The same as above with some corrections, and twenty-three new
pages added.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[510] The above was first given as an address to “The Wordsworth
Society,” 1884, and appeared in _Wordsworthiana_ in 1889.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[511] In the Appendix are about twenty pages containing a ferocious
criticism on “Wordsworth, his Poetry and his Misrepresentations.”
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[512] In the Memoirs of M. F. Ossoli (Boston, vol. iii. p. 84) there is
a short reference to Wordsworth.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[513] Introduction and Editorial Notes by H. R., interesting and
valuable.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[514] In the Lecture on the Sonnet, there are interesting allusions to
Wordsworth’s Sonnets.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[515] This book and the previous one have about half a dozen pages each
on Wordsworth.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[516] The substance of this chapter on Wordsworth as a revealer of
Childhood, first appeared in _The Atlantic Monthly_, October 1885.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[517] In this volume there are many references to Wordsworth of
interest--especially at pp. 202, 206, 210 and 263--on _Subjective
Interpretation, The Pathetic Fallacy_, etc.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[518] This essay was also published in _The Complete Poetical Works_.
Philadelphia: James Kay jun. and Brothers, 1837. Also in _The North
American Review_, 1844.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[519] The above appeared first in _The North American Review_. It was
“written when the news came of Wordsworth’s death.” It is not given
elsewhere in this list.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[520] Letter V. contains some characteristic remarks on Wordsworth
by “Christopher North,” who gave Willis a note of introduction to
Wordsworth and Southey. Willis did _not_ write about Wordsworth in this
book. As it is inserted in some of the lists, I include it, with this
explanation.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
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.
[521] An enthusiastic announcement.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[522] An appreciatory and critical Introductory Note to _The Waterfall
and the Eglantine_.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[523] Editorial reporting the increasing popularity of “Lyrical
Ballads,” and further commendation of the poems.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[524] Note on _The Fountain_.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[525] An editorial announcement that “Lyrical Ballads” had reached
a third edition, and containing one of the most ardent tributes to
Wordsworth in the language.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[526] Not long, but of much interest.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[527] An unsigned and excellent review of the 1824 (Boston) edition
of the poems. The writer remarks that not a volume of Wordsworth’s
poems has been published in America since 1802. Attributed to F.W.P.
Greenwood.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[528] Anonymous review of the 1824 (Boston) edition of the poems. One
of the very best.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[529] Sectarian in spirit, but on the whole fair to Wordsworth.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[530] Anonymous. A well-written article of about twenty-four pages,
reviewing _Yarrow Revisited_. It was one of the earliest reviews in an
American journal that claimed for Wordsworth a high order of genius. It
was probably written by Robert Walsh, the editor of the _Review_.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[531] An article on Wordsworth’s sonnets on Capital Punishment, in an
article on “The English Sonnet.” Judge Henry Reed found this to have
been written by his father, Professor Henry Reed.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[532] An appreciative criticism of eight pages.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[533] Entitled “Wordsworth and his Poetry.” A review of the 1824
edition and of _Yarrow Revisited_, Boston, 1835. An estimate of
Wordsworth’s claims as a poet, and as a man. A more comprehensive,
stronger, more inviting criticism (in appealing to those to whom the
poetry is unknown) has not been written. It ranks, in my opinion, among
the best criticisms on Wordsworth written in America.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[534] H. Tuckerman wrote an article on Wordsworth for his magazine.
This may be the article.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[535] The number for 7th March contains a notice of Wordsworth, in a
review of Reed’s _Complete Poetical Works of Wordsworth_ (1837).
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[536] Another mention of Reed’s edition, and of the discovery that “a
fellow-townsman,” Dr. T. C. James, anticipated the fact of Wordsworth’s
popularity. A quotation from “Memoirs of Historical Society of
Pennsylvania” to prove Dr. James’ prophecy.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[537] Writer unknown.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[538] To class this review with others of an early date, I have placed
it among Periodical Reviews. It appeared in _The North American
Review_, 1844; and again, in 1850, in _Essays and Reviews_.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[539] A review of Reed’s 1837 edition of “Wordsworth’s Poetical Works.”
Professor Henry Reed’s son--Judge Henry Reed of Philadelphia--informs
me that it was written by his father.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[540] This article is entitled “Modern English Poetry--Byron, Shelley,
and Wordsworth.”
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[541] By an unknown author.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
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.
[542] A review of the 1837 edition of Wordsworth’s poems. Perhaps no
abler or more comprehensive review of Wordsworth’s life and writings
has been written than this, by America’s foremost critic.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[543] One of the best of the early American criticisms.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[544] A review of the 1851 edition. Contains an earnest plea for the
study of Wordsworth’s poetry in America. One of the noblest criticisms
written.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[545] On the “Life and Poetry of Wordsworth.” A review of _The
Prelude_. Unsigned; but the name is given elsewhere, as T. Chase.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[546] A review of the _Memoirs of Wordsworth_, by his nephew, the
Bishop of Lincoln.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[547] A review of Professor Reed’s edition of the _Memoirs of
Wordsworth_, Boston, 1851.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[548] A review of the _Memoirs_, signed O. W.W.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[549] A review of _The Prelude_.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[550] Anonymous. A short review of _The Prelude_, and, at greater
length, of _The Life_ (edited by Reed). An estimate of his work and
influence.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[551] Traces the literary life of the poet. Claims for Wordsworth the
precedence to Coleridge in the utterance of a spiritual Philosophy.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[552] A notice of Wordsworth’s death, unsigned; but Mr. Wilberforce
Eames--of the Lenox Library--informs me, that their library now owns
Mr. Evert A. Duyckinck’s copy of the _Literary World_, and that
gentleman’s own initials are appended in pencil to this article. Mr.
Duyckinck was editor of the _Literary World_.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[553] Judge Reed, Professor Henry Reed’s son, does not attribute this
article to his father. There is an impression that Professor Reed
published an article on _The Prelude_. His lecture on that poem was
never published.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[554] Signed by R. F. Correspondence, _London Literary Gazette_, August
31.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[555] Possibly the same as in that scarce number of the _Southern
Literary Messenger_. Vol. xvi. p. 474.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[556] These articles, in the opinion of Judge Henry Reed, are not by
his father, Professor Henry Reed.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[557] Notice to those who wish to subscribe to the Memorial to
Wordsworth, signed.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[558] An article on the University of Cambridge, and an account of
Wordsworth’s residence at St. John’s College, 1787-1791.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[559] Six pages on Wordsworth’s _Sonnet to Liberty_.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[560] A brief review of _The Prelude_ and _Excursion_, and a comparison
between the two poems.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[561] On Wordsworth’s sonnets in favour of Capital Punishment.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[562] On the house at Rydal.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[563] An unsigned, four paged article on Wordsworth, Byron Scott, and
Shelley.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[564] In a “Review of Longfellow’s _Poets and Poetry of Europe_,” a
page on Wordsworth’s influence.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[565] In “The Origin and Uses of Poetry,” a few lines on Wordsworth.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[566] A notice, with extracts from _The Prelude_.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[567] “The Religion of Wordsworth’s Poetry.”
C. M. ST. JOHN.
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.
[568] On “The Homiletic Value of Wordsworth’s Poetry.” One of the
ablest papers ever written on Wordsworth. It contains the best reply to
Matthew Arnold’s estimate of his poetry.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[569] This is a review of Rolf’s _Wordsworth’s Selected Poems_.
It contains one of the most appreciative tributes to Wordsworth’s
influence which has appeared in America.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[570] On “Wordsworth and the Modern Age.” Illustrated by W. St.
J. Harper, and other artists. It deals with the especial need of
Wordsworth’s “calming influence in the exacting competition for
success,” and gives a comparison between Virgil and Wordsworth.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[571] Of interest to Americans.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[572] It aims to give some explanation of the lack of interest in
Wordsworth’s poetry in later days.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[573] An attempt, the writer says, to point out the corrections,
leaving their interpretation to the reader.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
[574] Written by an Englishman, but published first in an American
magazine.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
VII
VISITS TO WORDSWORTH BY EMINENT AMERICANS
The following books record visits made by eminent Americans to
Wordsworth.
C. M. ST. JOHN.
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.”
3
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.
4
1836. DEWEY, ORVILLE. _The Old World and the New._ Boston: 2 vols. pp.
89-96.
5
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
1
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.)”
4
1850. H. M. R. _Harpers Magazine._ “Sonnet on the Death of Wordsworth.”
Vol. i. p. 218.
5
1850. E. A. W. _Literary World._ “Sonnet on Wordsworth.” Vol. vii. p.
255.
6
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.
7
1890. SCOLLARD, CLINTON (?) _Northern Christian Advocate._ “The Poet’s
Seat. A Sonnet on Wordsworth. Written at Ambleside, 1890.”
8
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
1
1892. CORSON, HIRAM. “The Divine Immanence in Nature, and the
relationship of the human spirit thereto, as presented in Wordsworth’s
Poetry.”
2
WINCHESTER, C. T. “The Lake District and Wordsworth.”
3
PRENTISS, GEORGE L. “Hurstmonceaux Rectory and Rydal Mount.” (Personal
Recollections.)
4
HOYT, A. S. “Wordsworth, the Man and the Poet.” (Imperfectly reported
in _The Houghton Record_.)
III.--_FRANCE_
WORDSWORTH IN FRANCE
By ÉMILE LEGOUIS, Professeur à la Faculté de Lettres, Université de
Lyon, France
I
BIBLIOGRAPHY
There is no separate or whole book on Wordsworth that I know of.
ARTICLES IN MAGAZINES, OR CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
_Voyage historique et littéraire en Angleterre et en Écosse_, par
Amédée Pichot (_passim_). 3 vols. in 8. Paris, 1829.[575] An English
translation was published in London in 1825.
_Revue Britannique._
Mai 1827. Wordsworth, Crabbe, and Campbell, pp. 61-79, a criticism
translated from the _New Monthly Magazine_.
Février 1835. Poésie domestique de la grande Bretagne, translated from
the _New Monthly Magazine_.
Janvier 1836, p. 190. Compte-rendu de “Yarrow Revisited and other
Poems,” translated from the _Repository of Knowledge_.
_Revue des Deux Mondes._ 1er Août 1835. William Wordsworth, par A.
Fontaney.[576]
_Revue Contemporaine._ 15 Décembre 1853. Poètes contemporains de
l’Angleterre: William Wordsworth et John Wilson, par L. Étienne.
_Littérature anglaise_ de H. Taine.[577] 1864. Vol. iv. pp. 311-324.
_Études sur la Littérature contemporaine_, par Éd. Schérer.[578]
_Revue critique d’histoire et de littérature._ 16 Janvier 1882. Article
de James Darmesteter sur la Biographie de Wordsworth, par Myers.[579]
_Essais de Littérature anglaise_, par James Darmesteter. Paris,
1883.[580]
_Histoire de la Littérature anglaise_, par M. Léon Boucher. Paris,
1890. pp. 355-363.
_La Renaissance de la Poésie anglaise_, par Gabriel Sarrazin. 1887.
_Études et Portraits_, par Paul Bourget. Vol. ii. Études
anglaises.[581] 1888.
_Étude sur la Vie et les Œuvres de Robert Burns_, par Auguste
Angellier. Paris, 1892. (_Passim_, et surtout vol. ii. pp. 362-393,
Étude sur le sentiment de la nature dans Wordsworth et autres poètes
anglais contemporains.)
_Le général Michel Beaupuy_, par Georges Bussière et Émile Legouis.
Paris, 1891.
[575] Vol. ii. pp. 363-394.--ED.
[576] This was signed Y, which was Fontaney’s pseudonym.--E.L.
[577] Wordsworth et la poésie moderne de l’Angleterre.--_Histoire de la
Littérature anglaise_, par H. Taine.--ED.
[578] Vol. vi. pp. 127, 128, and vol. vii. pp. 1-59.--ED.
[579] pp. 227-236.--ED.
[580] pp. 227-236.--ED.
[581] Vol. ii. pp. 83; 126-134.--ED.
II
TRANSLATIONS
Pas de traduction complète, ni de volume spécial de traductions de
Wordsworth.
Une traduction par Fontaney annoncée en 1837 comme devant paraître dans
le _Bibliothèque anglo-française_, n’a pas paru.
En dehors des poèmes ou parties de poèmes traduit par les critiques
énumérés plus haut, il n’y a guère de traduction en prose de quelque
importance.
TRADUCTIONS EN VERS
MADAME AMABLE TASTU. _We are Seven._
SAINTE-BEUVE. _Joseph Delorme._ 1829.
“Le plus long jour de l’année,” p. 88.
Sonnet, “Personal Talk,” p. 123.
“Sonnet sur le Sonnet,” p. 124.
_Consolations._ 1830.
Sonnet, “It is a beauteous evening,” p. 234.
Sonnet, “Not Love, nor War,” p. 239.
Sonnet, “Quand le poète en pleurs,” p. 236.
_Pensées d’Août._ Trois sonnets imités de Wordsworth.
I. “Reposez-vous et remerciez.”
II. “La Cabane du Highlander.”
III. “Le Château de Bothwell.”
Sainte-Beuve cite en outre dans ses _Nouveaux Lundis_ des 21 et 22
Avril 1862, trois sonnets de Wordsworth traduits en vers, par l’Abbé
Roussel. Ces traductions assez pauvres de poésie sont celles des
sonnets suivants--
“Nuns fret not.…”
“Dark and more dark.…”
“These words were uttered as in pensive mood.”
JEAN AICARD a traduit _We are Seven_ dans _La Chanson de l’Enfant_.
PAUL BOURGET (_Études et Portraits_, vol. ii. _op. cit._) a traduit
l’un des sonnets au Duddon.
“What aspect bore the Man …?”
III
INFLUENCE
Wordsworth’s influence on French literature was altogether very slight,
nor did it make itself felt till about 1830; when, after a very limited
period, it silently died away.
Wordsworth was but little known by his contemporary Châteaubriand, who
merely names him among other poets in his _Essai sur la Littérature
anglaise_. Byron, Walter Scott, and in a lesser degree Thomas
Moore, were the only writers of Great Britain whose works told on
our literature at that time. Villemain, in his criticism of Byron,
contemptuously dismisses all the so-called lake-poets to fix on his
hero. He calls them: “Des métaphysiciens, raisonneurs sans invention,
mélancoliques sans passion, qui, dans l’éternelle rêverie d’une vie
étroite et peu agitée, n’avaient produit que des singularités sans
puissance sur l’imagination des autres hommes. Tel était Woodsworth
(_sic_) et le subtil mais non touchant Coléridge.”
To Byron also, and to him alone (Ossian being excepted) among the
poets of England, was Lamartine indebted. I am not sure that he names
Wordsworth once; but still the striking analogy between the ideas and
imaginative style of both cannot fail to be noticed by the reader.
Without insisting on a parallel that might be drawn between many pages
of _The Excursion_ and of _Jocelyn_, I will only point out two short
pieces of Lamartine that bear strong resemblance to two poems of
Wordsworth, so much so that they almost read like free imitations--
Lamartine Wordsworth’s
“A Augusta,” _Recueillements |
Poètiques_, xx. | _Nightingale and Stock-dove._
|
“Le Fontaine du Foyard,” |
_Nouvelles Confidences_. | _The Fountain._
Victor Hugo, so far as I know, only names Wordsworth once, in _L’Âne_--
…Young le pleureur des nuits,
Wordsworth l’esprit des lacs …
M. Sully Prudhomme when he wrote _A l’Hirondelle_ (stanzas, la vie
intérieure) appears to have borne in mind _To a Skylark_, “Ethereal
minstrel,” etc.
M. Coppée has often been called a French Wordsworth, owing to his
poetical collection called _Les Humbles_, wherein he shows the same
partiality as the English Poet does for humble themes and characters,
together with a bold attempt to naturalise trivial or ludicrous
details in serious poetry; but there is no proof, as far as I know, of
Wordsworth’s influence having been strong upon him.
If we except two or three disciples of Wordsworth, neither he, nor
the lake-poets taken as a whole, seem to have been much thought of, or
even read, by our contemporary verse-writers. The word _Lakist_ has
generally been used as a synonym for “weak and doleful mysticism.”
Ex.:--
(_a_) _Revue Encyclopédique._ 1831. Article de Pierre Leroux, sur la
“Poésie de notre Époque.” “L’Angleterre a entendu autour de ses lacs
bourdonner comme des ombres plaintives un essaim de poètes abîmés dans
une mystique contemplation.”
(_b_) _Journal d’un Poète_, par Alfred de Vigny. (Ed. Michel Lévy.
1867. p. 80.) “Barbier vient de publier _Il Pianto_. Les délices de
Capone ont amolli son caractère de poésie et Brizeux a déteint sur
lui ses douces couleurs virgiliennes et laquistes (_sic_) dérivant de
Sainte-Beuve.”
(_c_) THÉOPHILE GAUTIER (_Portraits Contemporains_, p. 174) almost
seems to derive the word _Lakiste_ from Lamartine’s poem called _Le
Lac_. He has just mentioned the poem and goes on: “Il ne faut pas
croire que Lamartine, parce qu’il y a toujours chez lui une vibration
et une résonnance de harpe éolienne, ne soit qu’un mélodieux _lakiste_
et ne sache que soupirer mollement la mélancolie et l’amour. S’il a le
soupir, il a la parole et le cri …” (_Journal Officiel_, 8 Mars 1869.)
I now come to the man who, first and foremost among our poets and
critics, paid due homage to Wordsworth, _i.e._ Sainte-Beuve. I have
already enumerated his several translations in verse from Wordsworth.
Strange to say, the voluminous critic has no single article with
Wordsworth for its main subject; but, whoever will go through his many
volumes will find many judicious and admiring references to the poet.
Moreover, as a poet, Sainte-Beuve has endeavoured to naturalise in
France the poetic style that has been associated with the name of
Wordsworth. He expressly claims Wordsworth as one of his masters in his
_Consolations_ xviii. “A Antony Deschamps.” Among his bosom-poets he
reckons--
…Wordsworth peu connu, qui des lacs solitaires
Sait tòus les bleus reflets, les bruits et les mystères,
Et qui, depuis trente ans vivant au même lieu,
En contemplation devant le même Dieu,
A travers les soupirs de la mousse et de l’onde,
Distingue, au soir, des chants venus d’un meilleur monde.
The original attempt of Sainte-Beuve (for he was original in his very
choice of Wordsworth as a model at a time when Byron engrossed all
the admiration of the French poets) has been ably characterised by
Théophile Gautier in his “Portraits Contemporains” (pp. 208, 209), an
article reprinted from _La Gazette de Paris_, 19 Novembre 1871:--
“(Sainte-Beuve) avait été en poésie un inventeur. Il avait
donné une note nouvelle et toute moderne, et de tout le cénacle
c’était à coup sûr le plus réellement romantique. Dans cette
humble poésie qui rappelle par la sincérité du sentiment et
la minutie du détail observé sur nature, les vers de Crabbe,
de Wordsworth, et de Cowper, Sainte-Beuve s’est frayé de
petits sentiers à mi-côte, bordés d’humbles fleurettes, où nul
en France n’a passé avant lui. Sa facture un peu laborieuse
et compliquée vient de la difficulté de réduire à la forme
métrique des idées et des images non exprimées encore ou
dédaignées jusque-là, mais que de morceaux merveilleusement
venus où l’effort n’est plus sensible!”
Sainte-Beuve’s admiration of Wordsworth is a well-known fact. Less
generally known is the influence of this admiration on several poets
of that time (_circa_ 1830-40), who, either through Sainte-Beuve’s
imitations, or with a direct knowledge of Wordsworth’s poems, to the
reading of which they had thus been stimulated, offer great marks of
resemblance with Wordsworth. I have quoted a judgment of De Vigny that
considers Brizeux and Barbier as having turned _laquistes_ through
Sainte-Beuve. I know no other immediate proof of this influence.
Perhaps Barbier and Brizeux have consigned it somewhere. Anyhow Brizeux
with his glorification of his youthful years and school-time, with
his intense love of his native Brittany, his fond attachment to local
customs and habits, his lamentations on the death of the poetical poet
as embodied in his own province (_Élégie de la Bretagne_), is to all
extent and purposes the most thoroughly Wordsworthian of all our poets.
There may be more of Wordsworth’s _philosophy_ in Lamartine, but there
is more of his _poetry_ proper in Brizeux.
The influence of Wordsworth on Maurice de Guérin and Hippolyte de la
Morvonnais, is more easily ascertained than the preceding. Here, again,
Sainte-Beuve appears to have been the intermediate agent.[582]
In 1832-33 Maurice de Guérin, fresh from the reading of the
_Consolations_, and De la Morvonnais, who came to be a direct admirer
of the Lake Poets, and chiefly of Wordsworth, set to write short
poems which they aspired to make as little different from prose as
possible, rejecting all traditional ornaments, and making little of
the rhythmical improvements of the _Romantiques_ proper. Some of those
pieces were inserted in a local paper as downright prose (no stop
intervening at the end of the lines), whereas the said paper would
not have made room for verse.[583] This looks like trifling, but the
earnestness of this attempted revolution is shown in the interesting
poems of Maurice de Guérin. Another outcome of this was an intended
publication on Wordsworth, of which it is impossible to say whether it
was to be a criticism, or a translation, of the English Poet. It is
thus mentioned in a letter of Guérin to De la Morvonnais of June 30,
1836: “Nous avons adressé des circulaires à un grand nombre d’éditeurs
pour l’impression Wordsworth. Nous attendons la réponse d’un moment à
l’autre.” The answer must have been unfavourable, as nothing more was
heard of the intended publication.
The early death of Guérin left it for De la Morvonnais alone to spread
the influence of Wordsworth’s poetry in France. Of him we read in
Sainte-Beuve’s _Étude sur Maurice de Guérin_:--
“La Morvonnais, vers ce temps même (1834), en était fort
préoccupé (des lakistes et de leur poésie), au point d’aller
visiter Wordsworth à sa résidence de Rydal Mount, près des lacs
du Westmoreland, et de rester en correspondance avec ce grand
et pacifique esprit, avec ce patriarche de la Muse intime.
Guérin, sans tant y songer, ressemblait mieux aux Lakistes en
ne visant nullement à les imiter.”
Of the supposed correspondence between Wordsworth and De la Morvonnais
no trace remains. M. Hippolyte de la Blanchardière, De la Morvonnais’
grandson, has informed me that in the collection of his grandfather’s
letters there is no letter of Wordsworth to be found. That at least
a Study of Wordsworth existed at the time is proved by the following
preface to his poem _La Thébaïde des Grèves_, written by his friend A.
Duquesnel (ed. by Didier, Quai des Augustins. 1864. p. xxvii.)
“Nous avons trouvé dans les _Reliquiae_ du poète de
l’Arguenon[584] de précieuses études sur les lakistes. Il
s’était passionné pour ces hommes dans les dix dernières années
de sa vie (1843-53).[585] Wordsworth lui semblait plus grand
que Byron, qu’il trouvait trop emphatique, trop solennel,
pas assez près de la nature. L’auteur de _l’Excursion_ a
exercé une pénétrante influence sur l’esprit et le cœur de la
Morvonnais, nous trouvons dans ses cahiers des traductions
en vers de Wordsworth, de Coléridge, de Crabbe, qui, lui, ne
faisait pas partie de ce groupe. Nous les publierons peut-être
un jour; elles ont d’autant plus d’intérêt que l’on ne connaît
guère les lakistes en France, que par de rares extraits. Il
s’était livré, comme on le verra, à une étude approfondie de la
littérature anglaise. Son admiration pour Walter Scott était
inexprimable.”
The study and translations above-mentioned have also been lost, many
manuscripts of De la Morvonnais having been destroyed.
It remains for me to point out some allusions to, or imitations of,
Wordsworth in the existing verse of De la Morvonnais.
In the _Thébaïde des Grèves_ (1838), “Le Petit Patour” is a close
imitation of _We are Seven_, the conclusion being--
Cet enfant en sait plus que moi sur l’existence;
Savoir vivre est savoir souffrir avec constance.
“Le Vagabond,” a story of a vagrant by whom the poet is taught
resignation, is an imitation of _Resolution and Independence_.
In “A Sainte-Beuve” are found these two lines--
J’ai posé sous mon bras mon penseur solitaire,
Mon Wordsworth tant aimé de l’amant du mystère.
In “Dispersion, à Mistress Hemans,” etc., we read this--
Nous primes un poète, une femme angélique
Dont peu savent chez nous la voix mélancolique,
Disciple de Wordsworth, le sublime penseur,
Des lakistes chéris je la nomme la sœur.
In “Dernières Paroles” we find this praise of Wordsworth--
Or, ce soir-là, je lus un homme de génie;
Celui dont la mystique et profonde harmonie
Sonne pour les élus des poétiques dons,
Et soulève notre âme en ses grands abandons …
…Oh! ne pourrai-je voir
Ces lacs du Westmoreland, mon désir, mon espoir?
…
Cet homme est honoré des puissances secrètes;
Lui mort, à ses beaux lacs, romantiques retraites,
Des pèlerins viendront, penseurs religieux.
Le monde méconnut l’homme mélodieux.
I pass over many sonnets, and divers other poems, in which the
influence of Wordsworth is unmistakable, and come to a last quotation
which is useful to elucidate an allusion in Wordsworth’s _The Poet’s
Dream: Sequel to the Norman Boy_. In this poem, written in 1842,
Wordsworth says--
But oh! that Country-man of thine, whose eye, loved Child, can see
A pledge of endless bliss in acts of early piety,
In verse, which to thy ear might come, would treat this simple theme,
Nor leave untold our happy flight in that adventurous dream.
As Wordsworth read very little French poetry in his old age, I think he
here alludes to a poem of his admirer De la Morvonnais, who very likely
sent him that _Thébaïde des Grèves_ (1838), in which Wordsworth was so
highly praised. The passage alluded to is taken from “Solitude,” and
reads thus--
Enfant, Il (Dieu) te promet le domaine de l’ange
Si tu gardes l’amour et la foi des aïeux,
Et sa mère, aujourd’hui loin de l’humaine fange,
Que tu n’as pas connue et qui t’attend aux cieux.
As a whole, De la Morvonnais, though he imitates Wordsworth, is very
unlike him. Of course I do not mean to compare the two, but even
in like subjects he differs from Wordsworth, owing to a sort of
constitutional nervousness and brooding melancholy.[586]
[582] Voir Maurice de Guérin, _Journal, Lettres et Poèmes_, publiés par
J. S. Trébutien avec Préface de Sainte-Beuve (1860).--E.L.
[583] In the above work--_Séjour de M. de Guérin en Bretagne;
Impressions et Souvenirs de M. François du Breil de Marzan_, pp.
434-441.--E.L.
[584] H. de la Morvonnais.--E.L.
[585] A mistake: his admiration of Wordsworth began before 1832.--E.L.
[586] In _Voyage historique et littéraire en Angleterre et en Écosse_,
par Amédée Puchot, Lettre XXIV. there are numerous references to
Wordsworth. It begins with a quotation from _Tintern Abbey_. In
Lettre LXV. there is additional critical reference to Wordsworth and
Coleridge. In the _Album poétique des jeunes personnes_, par Mme.
Tastu, there is a “Sonnet imité de Wordsworth,” by St. Beuve, pp. 101,
102.
C’est un beau soir, un soir paisible et solennel,
A la fin du saint jour la nature en prière
Le tait, comme Marie à genoux sur la pierre, etc.--ED.
See also the _Nouveaux Lundis_ of St. Beuve, 21 and 22 Avril 1862,
where there are “trois sonnets traduits en vers par l’Abbé Roussel”
from Wordsworth.
ERRATA AND ADDENDA LIST
REFERRING TO VOLUMES I. TO VIII.
1. _Inistar omnium._--I wish to explain the accidental omission of Mr.
T. Hutchinson’s name amongst those who helped me in Volumes I. and II.
(see the prefatory note to this volume), and also that of Mr. Hill. It
was due to my returning, “for press,” an uncorrected copy of my Preface.
2. Vol. ii. p. 106, _Ruth_, l. 54--The following extract from Bartram’s
_Travels_, etc., illustrates Wordsworth’s debt to him:--
Proceeding on our return to town in the cool of the evening
… we enjoyed a most enchanting view; … companies of young
innocent Cherokee virgins, some busy gathering the rich
fragrant fruit, others having already filled their baskets, lay
reclined under the shade of floriferous and fragrant native
bowers … disclosing their beauties to the fluttering breeze
… whilst other parties, more gay and libertine, were yet
collecting strawberries, or wantonly chasing their companions,
tantalising them, staining their lips and cheeks with the ripe
fruit.
3. In vol. ii. p. 348, the date of publication should be Sept. 17,
1802, not 1803.
4. In _The Prelude_ (vol. iii. p. 202, book v. l. 26) the quotation
which I could not trace is from Shakespeare, Sonnet No. 64--
This thought is as a death, which cannot choose
But weep to have that which it fears to lose.
5. Vol. v. p. 113 (_The Excursion_, book iii. l. 187).--Mr. William
E. Walcott--Laurence, Mass. U.S.A.--sends me the following variant
readings, which he has found in a copy of the edition of 1814--
… crystal tube
Be lodged therein …
P. 151, book iv. l. 187--
Nor sleep, nor …
6. Vol. vii. p. 276.--This sonnet first appeared in the _New Monthly
Magazine_, part ii. p. 26, under the title, _To B. R. Haydon. Composed
on seeing his Picture of Napoleon, musing at St. Helena_; and it is
dated “Saturday, June 11th, 1831.”
7. Vol. vii. p. 336.--This poem was published in the _Saturday
Magazine_, May 18, 1844, in which the fifth line is--
Woe to the purblind men who fill.
8. It may be worth mentioning (1) that the quotation (not noted,
unfortunately, where it occurs)--
Some natural tears she drops, but wipes them soon,
is from _Paradise Lost_, book xii. l. 645. See also _An Elegy delivered
at the Hot Wells_, Bristol, July 1789. (2) That the phrase “numerous
verse” is from _Paradise Lost_, book v. l. 150; and (3) that “lenient
hand of Time” is from Bowles’ sonnet--
O Time, who know’st a lenient hand to lay
Softest on sorrow’s wound.
Amongst those which I have failed to trace are the following:
_Ecclesiastical Sonnets_, II. xxxiv.--
… murtherer’s chain partake,
Corded, and burning at the social stake.
xlv.--
… in the painful art of dying
_The Russian Fugitive_, Part II. l. 51--
… if house it be or bower.
_Elegiac Musings_, l. 41--
Let praise be mute where I am laid.
_Stanzas suggested in a Steamboat off Saint Bees’ Heads_, l. 37--
Cruel of heart were they, bloody of hand.
INDEX TO THE POEMS
VOL. PAGE
Aar, The Fall of the vi 308
Abbeys, Old vii 100
Address from the Spirit of Cockermouth Castle vii 347
Address to a Child iv 50
Address to Kilchurn Castle ii 400
Address to my Infant Daughter, Dora iii 14
Address to the Scholars of the Village School of ---- ii 84
Admonition iv 34
Æneid, Translation of Part of the First Book of the viii 276
“Aerial Rock--whose solitary brow” vi 187
Affliction of Margaret--, The iii 7
Afflictions of England vii 72
After-Thought (Duddon) vi 263
After-Thought (Tour on the Continent) vi 315
Airey-Force Valley viii 146
Aix-la-Chapelle vi 295
“Alas! what boots the long laborious quest” iv 216
Alban Hills, From the viii 65
Albano, At viii 64
Alfred vii 24
Alfred, His Descendants vii 25
Alice Fell; or, Poverty ii 272
Aloys Reding vi 310
Ambleside viii 156
America, Aspects of Christianity in (Three Sonnets) vii 84
American Episcopacy vii 85
American Tradition vi 246
Ancient History, On a celebrated Event in (Two Sonnets) iv 242
Andrew Jones viii 221
Anecdote for Fathers i 234
Animal Tranquillity and Decay i 307
Anticipation (October 1803) ii 436
Anticipation of leaving School, Composed in i 1
Apennines, Among the Ruins of a Convent in the viii 82
Apology (Ecclesiastical Sonnets, 1st part) vii 18
Apology (Ecclesiastical Sonnets, 2nd part) vii 55
Apology (Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death) viii 112
Apology (Yarrow Revisited) vii 309
Applethwaite, At iii 23
Aquapendente, Musings near viii 42
Armenian Lady’s Love, The vii 232
Artegal and Elidure vi 45
Authors, A plea for, viii 99
Author’s Portrait, To the vii 318
Autumn (September) vi 64
Autumn (Two Poems) vi 201
Avarice, The last Stage of ii 60
Avon, The (Annan) vii 303
Bala-Sala, At vii 365
Balbi iv 237
Ballot, Protest against the viii 304
Bangor, Monastery of Old vii 13
Baptism vii 89
Barbara ii 178
Beaumont, Sir George, Epistle to iv 256
Beaumont, Sir George, Upon perusing the foregoing Epistle to iv 267
Beaumont, Sir George, Picture of Peele Castle, painted by iii 54
Beaumont, Sir George, Beautiful Picture, painted by iv 271
Beaumont, Sir George, Elegiac Stanzas addressed to vii 132
Beaumont, To Lady iv 57
Beggar, The Old Cumberland i 299
Beggars (Two Poems) ii 276
“‘Beloved Vale!’ I said, ‘when I shall con’” iv 35
Benefits, Other (Two Sonnets) vii 40
Bible, Translation of the vii 58
Binnorie, The Solitude of ii 204
Bird of Paradise, Coloured Drawing of the viii 29
Bird of Paradise, Suggested by a Picture of viii 140
Biscayan Rite (Two Sonnets) iv 241
Bishops, Acquittal of the vii 79
Bishops and Priests vii 86
Black Comb, Inscription on a Stone on the side of iv 281
Black Comb, View from the top of iv 279
“Blest Statesman He, whose Mind’s unselfish will” viii 101
Bologna, At (Three Sonnets) viii 85
Bolton Priory, The Founding of iv 204
Books and Newspapers, Illustrated viii 184
Borderers, The i 112
Bothwell Castle vii 299
Boulogne, On being stranded near the Harbour of vi 378
Bran, Effusion on the Banks of the vi 28
Breadalbane, Ruined Mansion of the Earl of vii 295
Brientz, Scene on the Lake of vi 315
Brigham, Nun’s Well vii 347
Britons, Struggle of the vii 11
Brothers, The ii 184
Brothers Water, Bridge at the foot of ii 293
Brougham Castle, Song at the Feast of iv 82
Brownie’s Cell vi 16
Brownie, The vii 297
Brugès (Two Poems) vi 288
Brugès, Incident at vii 198
Buonaparté ii 323
Buonaparté ii 331
Buonaparté iv 228
Burial in the South of Scotland, A Place of vii 285
Burns, At the Grave of ii 379
Burns, Thoughts suggested near the Residence of ii 383
Burns, To the Sons of ii 386
Butterfly, To a ii 383
Butterfly, To a ii 297
Calais, August 1802 ii 331
Calais, August 15, 1802 ii 334
Calais, Composed by the Seaside, near ii 330
Calais, Composed near ii 332
Calais, Composed on the Beach, near ii 335
Calais, Fish-women at vi 286
Calvert, Raisley iv 44
Camaldoli, At the Convent of (Three Sonnets) viii 72
Canute vii 27
Canute and Alfred vi 130
Castle, Composed at ---- ii 410
“Castle of Indolence,” Written in my Pocket Copy of
Thomson’s ii 305
Casual Incitement vii 14
Catechising vii 91
Cathedrals, etc. vii 105
Catholic Cantons, Composed in one of the (Two Poems) vi 312
Celandine, The Small iii 21
Celandine, To the Small (Two Poems) ii 300
Cenotaph (Mrs. Fermor) vii 135
Chamouny, Processions in the Vale of vi 363
Character, A ii 208
Charles the First, Troubles of vii 71
Charles the Second vii 75
Chatsworth vii 272
Chaucer, Selections from (Three Poems) ii 238
Chiabrera, Epitaphs translated from iv 229
Chichely, Archbishop, to Henry V. vii 47
Child, Address to a iv 50
Child, Characteristics of a, three years old iv 252
Child, To a (Written in her Album) viii 7
Childless Father, The ii 181
Christianity in America, Aspects of (Three Sonnets) vii 84
Churches, New vii 102
Church to be erected (Two Sonnets) vii 103
Churchyard, New vii 104
Cintra, Convention of (Two Sonnets) iv 210
Cistertian Monastery vii 37
Clarkson, Thomas, To iv 62
Clergy, Corruptions of the Higher vii 49
Clergy, Emigrant French vii 101
Clerical Integrity vii 78
Clermont, The Council of vii 30
Clifford, Lord iv 82
Clouds, To the viii 142
Clyde, In the Frith of, Ailsa Crag vii 369
Clyde, On the Frith of vii 370
Cockermouth Castle, Address from the Spirit of vii 347
Cockermouth, In sight of vii 346
Coleorton, Elegiac Musings in the grounds of vii 269
Coleorton, A Flower Garden at vii 125
Coleorton, Inscription for an Urn in the grounds of iv 78
Coleorton, Inscription for a Seat in the groves of iv 80
Coleorton, Inscription in a garden of iv 76
Coleorton, Inscription in the grounds of iv 74
Coleridge, Hartley, To ii 351
Collins, Remembrance of i 33
Cologne, In the Cathedral at vi 297
Commination Service vii 96
Complaint, A iv 17
“Complete Angler,” Written on a blank leaf in the vi 190
Conclusion (Duddon) vi 262
Conclusion (Ecclesiastical Sonnets) vii 108
Conclusion (Miscellaneous Sonnets) vii 177
Conclusion (Prelude) iii 367
Conclusion (Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death) viii 111
Confirmation (Two Sonnets) vii 92
Congratulation vii 102
Conjectures vii 5
Contrast, The. The Parrot and the Wren vii 141
Convent in the Apennines viii 82
Convention of Cintra, Composed while writing a Tract
occasioned by the (Two Sonnets) iv 210
Conversion vii 17
Convict, The viii 217
Cora Linn, Composed at vi 26
Cordelia M----, To vii 400
Cottage Girls, The Three vi 351
Cottager to her Infant, The iii 74
Council of Clermont, The vii 30
Countess’ Pillar vii 307
Covenanters, Persecution of the Scottish vii 79
Cranmer vii 62
Crosthwaite Church viii 157
Crusaders vii 41
Crusades vii 31
Cuckoo and the Nightingale, The ii 250
Cuckoo at Laverna, The viii 67
Cuckoo Clock, The viii 151
Cuckoo, To the ii 289
Cuckoo, To the vii 169
Cumberland Beggar, The Old i 299
Cumberland Beggar, The Old, MS. Variants viii 220
Cumberland, Coast of (In the Channel) vii 358
Cumberland, On a high part of the coast of vii 337
Daffodils, The iii 4
Daisy, To the (Two Poems) ii 353
Daisy, To the ii 360
Daisy, To the iii 51
Daniel, Picture of (Hamilton Palace) vii 303
Danish Boy, The ii 96
Danish Conquests vii 27
Danube, The Source of the vi 303
Dati, Roberto iv 234
Dedication (Miscellaneous Sonnets) vii 159
Dedication (Tour on the Continent) vi 285
Dedication (White Doe of Rylstone) iv 102
Dedication (White Doe of Rylstone) vi 42
Departure from the Vale of Grasmere ii 377
“Deplorable his lot who tills the ground” vii 38
Derwent, To the River vi 193
Derwent, To the River vii 345
Descriptive Sketches i 35
Descriptive Sketches i 309
Desultory Stanzas vi 382
Detraction which followed the Publication of a certain
Poem, On the vi 212
Devil’s Bridge, To the Torrent at the vii 129
Devotional Incitements vii 314
Dion vi 116
Dissensions vii 10
Distractions vii 68
Dog, Incident characteristic of a favourite iii 48
Dog, Tribute to the Memory of the same iii 49
Donnerdale, The Plain of vi 251
Dora, To (A little onward) vi 132
Dora, To my Niece viii 297
Douglas Bay, Isle of Man, On entering vii 360
Dover, Composed in the Valley near ii 341
Dover, Near ii 343
Dover, The Valley of (Two Sonnets) vi 380
Druidical Excommunication vii 7
Druids, Trepidation of the vii 6
Duddon, The River vi 225
Dungeon-Ghyll Force ii 138
Dunollie Castle (Eagles) vii 292
Dunolly Castle, On Revisiting vii 371
Dunolly Eagle, The vii 372
Duty, Ode to iii 37
Dyer, To the Poet John iv 273
Eagle and the Dove, The viii 309
Eagles (Dunollie Castle) vii 292
Eagle, The Dunolly vii 372
Easter Sunday, Composed on vi 194
Ecclesiastical Sonnets vii 2
Echo, The Mountain iv 25
Echo upon the Gemmi vi 360
Eclipse of the Sun, The vi 345
Eden, The River (Cumberland) vii 385
Edward VI. vii 59
Edward VI. signing the Warrant vii 60
Egremont Castle, The Horn of iv 12
Egyptian Maid, The vii 252
Ejaculation vii 107
Elegiac Musings (Coleorton Hall) vii 269
Elegiac Stanzas (Goddard) vi 371
Elegiac Stanzas (Mrs. Fermor) vii 132
Elegiac Stanzas (Peele Castle) iii 54
Elegiac Verses (John Wordsworth) iii 58
Elizabeth vii 65
Ellen Irwin ii 124
Emigrant French Clergy vii 101
Emigrant Mother, The ii 284
Eminent Reformers (Two Sonnets) vii 66
Emma’s Dell ii 153
Engelberg vi 316
Enghien, Duke d’ vi 114
“England! the time is come when thou should’st wean” ii 432
England, Afflictions of vii 72
Enterprise, To vi 218
Episcopacy, American vii 85
Epistle to Sir George Beaumont iv 256
Epistle to Sir George Beaumont, Upon perusing the foregoing iv 267
Epitaph, A Poet’s ii 75
Epitaph in the Chapel-yard of Langdale viii 120
Epitaphs translated from Chiabrera iv 229
“Ere with cold beads of midnight dew” vii 145
“Even as a dragon’s eye that feels the stress” vi 69
Evening of extraordinary splendour, Composed upon an vi 176
Evening Star over Grasmere Water, To the viii 263
Evening Walk, An i 4
Event in Ancient History, On a celebrated (Two Sonnets) iv 242
Excursion, The v 1
Expostulation and Reply i 272
Fact, A, and an Imagination vi 130
Faery Chasm, The vi 241
Fancy iv 36
Fancy and Tradition vii 306
Fancy, Hints for the vi 242
Farewell, A ii 324
Farewell Lines vii 155
Farewell (Tour, 1833) vii 341
Farmer of Tilsbury Vale, The ii 147
Far-Terrace, The vii 154
Father, The Childless ii 181
Fathers, Anecdote for i 234
Fermor, Mrs. (Cenotaph) vii 135
Fermor, Mrs. (Elegiac Stanzas) vii 132
Fidelity iii 44
Filial Piety vii 231
Fir Grove (John Wordsworth) iii 66
Fishes in a Vase, Gold and Silver vii 214
Fish-women vi 286
Flamininus, T. Quintius (Two Sonnets) iv 242
Fleming, To the Lady (Rydal Chapel), (Two Poems) vii 109
Floating Island (D. W.) viii 125
Florence (Four Sonnets) viii 78
Flower Garden, A (Coleorton) vii 125
Flowers vi 235
Flowers (Cave of Staffa) vii 378
Flowers in the Island of Madeira viii 177
“Fly, some kind Harbinger, to Grasmere-dale!” ii 419
Foresight, or Children gathering Flowers ii 298
Forms of Prayer at Sea vii 97
Forsaken Indian Woman, Complaint of a i 275
Forsaken, The iii 10
Fort Fuentes vi 328
Fountain, The ii 91
Fox, Mr., Lines composed on the expected death of iv 47
France, Sky-prospect from the Plain of vi 377
Francesco Pozzobonnelli iv 236
French Army in Russia (Two Poems) vi 107
French Clergy, Emigrant vii 101
French Revolution ii 34
French Revolution, In allusion to Histories of the
(Three Sonnets) viii 130
French Royalist, Feelings of a vi 114
Friend, To a (Banks of the Derwent) vii 348
Funeral Service vi 97
Furness Abbey, At viii 168
Furness Abbey, At viii 176
Gemmi, Echo upon the vi 360
General Fast, Upon the late (1832) vii 323
George the Third (November, 1813) iv 282
George the Third, On the death of vi 209
Germans on the Heights of Hockheim, The vi 216
Germany, Written in ii 73
Gillies, Margaret, To (Two Poems) viii 114
Gillies, Margaret viii 306
Gillies, Robert Pearce vi 33
Gipsies iv 65
Glad Tidings vii 15
Gleaner, The vii 202
Glen-Almain, or, The Narrow Glen ii 393
Glencroe, At the Head of vii 295
Glowworm, The viii 231
Goddard, Elegiac Stanzas vi 371
Gold and Silver Fishes in a Vase (Two Poems) vii 214
Goody Blake and Harry Gill i 253
Gordale vi 185
Grace Darling viii 310
Grasmere, Departure from the Vale of (August 1803) ii 377
Grasmere, Home at viii 235
Grasmere, Inscription on the Island at ii 213
Grasmere, Return to ii 419
Grasmere Lake, Composed by the side of iv 73
Grave-stone, A (Worcester Cathedral) vii 201
“Great men have been among us; hands that penned” ii 346
Green, George and Sarah viii 266
Green Linnet, The ii 367
Greenock vii 383
Greta, To the River vii 344
“Grief, thou hast lost an ever ready friend” vi 195
Grotto, Written in a viii 234
Guernica, Oak of iv 245
Guilt and Sorrow i 77
Gunpowder Plot vii 69
Gustavus IV iv 227
Gwerndwffnant, Holiday at viii 284
H. C., Six years old, To ii 351
Hambleton Hills, After a journey across the ii 349
Happy Warrior, Character of the iv 7
Hart-Leap Well ii 128
Hart’s-Horn Tree vii 305
Haunted Tree, The vi 199
Hawkshead, Written as a School Exercise at viii 211
Hawkshead School, In anticipation of leaving i 1
Hawkshead School, Address to the Scholars of ii 84
Haydon, To B. R. vi 61
Haydon, To B. R. (Picture of Napoleon Buonaparte) vii 276
Heidelberg, Castle of (Hymn for Boatmen) vi 301
Helvellyn, To ----, on her first ascent of vi 135
Henry Eighth, Portrait of vii 166
Her eyes are wild i 258
Hermitage (St. Herbert’s Island) ii 210
Hermitage, Near the Spring of the vi 175
Hermit’s Cell, Inscriptions in and near vi 170
Highland Boy, The Blind ii 420
Highland Broach, The vii 310
Highland Girl, To a ii 389
Highland Hut vii 296
Hint from the Mountains vi 156
Hints for the Fancy vi 242
Historian, Plea for the viii 61
Hoffer iv 213
Hogg, James, Extempore Effusion upon the death of viii 24
Holiday at Gwerndwffnant viii 284
Home at Grasmere viii 235
Horn of Egremont Castle, The iv 12
Howard, Mrs., Monument of (Wetheral), (Two Sonnets) vii 386
Humanity vii 222
Hutchinson, Sarah, To vii 162
Hymn for Boatmen (Heidelberg) vi 301
Hymn, The Labourer’s Noon-day vii 408
I.F., To viii 307
Idiot Boy, The i 283
Illustrated Books and Newspapers viii 184
Illustration (The Jung-Frau) vii 70
Imagination vi 67
Immortality, Ode, Intimations of viii 189
Indian Woman, Complaint of a Forsaken i 275
Infant Daughter, Address to my iii 14
Infant M---- M----, To the vii 170
Infant, The Cottager to her iii 74
Influence Abused vii 26
Influence of Natural Objects ii 66
Influences, Other vii 19
Inglewood Forest, Suggested by a View in vii 304
Inscription for a Monument in Crosthwaite Church (Southey) viii 157
Inscription for a Stone (Rydal Mount) vii 269
Inscriptions (Coleorton) iv 74
Inscriptions (Hermit’s Cell) vi 170
Installation Ode viii 320
Interdict, An vii 32
Introduction (Ecclesiastical Sonnets) vii 4
Introduction (Prelude) iii 132
Invasion, Lines on the expected ii 437
Inversneyde ii 389
Invocation to the Earth vi 95
Iona (Two Sonnets) vii 379
Iona, The Black Stones of vii 381
Isle of Man (Two Sonnets) vii 362
Isle of Man, At Bala-Sala vii 365
Isle of Man, At Sea off the vii 359
Isle of Man, By the Sea-shore vii 361
Isle of Man (Douglas Bay) vii 360
Italian Itinerant, The vi 338
Italy, After leaving (Two Sonnets) viii 84
“It is no Spirit who from heaven hath flown” ii 375
“I watch, and long have watched, with calm regret” vi 197
Jedborough, The Matron of ii 414
Jewish Family, A vii 195
Joanna, To ii 157
Joanna H., Lines addressed to viii 282
Joan of Kent, Warrant for Execution of vii 60
Jones, Rev. Robert vi 257
Journey Renewed vi 257
June, 1820 vi 214
Jung-Frau, The, and the Fall of the Rhine vii 70
Kendal, Upon hearing of the death of the Vicar of vi 40
Kendal and Windermere Railway, On the projected viii 166
Kent, To the Men of (October, 1803) ii 434
Kilchurn Castle, Address to ii 400
Killicranky, In the Pass of ii 435
King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, Inside of (Three Sonnets) vii 106
Kirkstone, The Pass of vi 158
Kirtle, The Braes of ii 124
Kitten and Falling Leaves, The iii 16
Laborer’s Noon-day Hymn, The vii 408
Lady, To a, upon Drawings she had made of Flowers in
Madeira viii 177
Lady E. B., and the Hon. Miss P., To the vii 128
Lamb, Charles, Written after the death of viii 17
Lancaster Castle, Suggested by the view of viii 103
Langdale, Epitaph in the Chapel-yard of viii 120
Laodamia vi 1
Last of the Flock, The i 279
Last Supper, by Leonardo da Vinci, The vi 343
Latimer and Ridley vii 61
Latitudinarianism vii 76
Laud vii 71
Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper vi 343
Lesbia viii 32
Liberty (Gold and Silver Fishes) vii 216
Liberty (Tyrolese Sonnets) iv 214
Liberty, Obligations of Civil to Religious vii 81
Liege, Between Namur and vi 293
Lines, composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey ii 51
Lines composed on the expected death of Mr. Fox iv 47
Lines, Farewell vii 155
Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree i 108
Lines on the expected Invasion, 1803 ii 437
Lines suggested by a Portrait from the Pencil of F. Stone
(Two Poems) viii 1
Lines written as a School Exercise at Hawkshead viii 211
Lines written in Early Spring i 268
Lines written in the Album of the Countess of Lonsdale viii 8
Lines written upon a Stone, upon one of the Islands at Rydal ii 63
Lines written upon hearing of the death of the late Vicar
of Kendal vi 40
Lines written while sailing in a Boat at Evening i 32
Liturgy, The vii 88
Loch Etive, Composed in the Glen of vii 291
Lombardy, In viii 83
London, Written in (1802), (Two Sonnets) ii 344
Longest Day, The vi 153
Long Meg and her Daughters vii 390
Lonsdale, The Countess of (Album) viii 8
Lonsdale, To the Earl of v 20
Lonsdale, To the Earl of vii 392
Louisa ii 362
Love, The Birth of viii 215
Love lies bleeding (Two Poems) viii 148
Loving and Liking vii 320
Lowther vii 391
Lowther, To the Lady Mary vi 211
Lucca Giordano viii 183
Lucy Gray; or, Solitude ii 99
Lucy (Three Poems) ii 78
Lucy (Three years she grew) ii 81
Lycoris, Ode to (Two Poems) vi 145
M. H., To ii 167
Madeira, Flowers in the Island of viii 177
Malham Cove vi 184
Manse, On the sight of a (Scotland) vii 286
March, Written in ii 293
Margaret ----, The Affliction of iii 7
Mariner, By a Retired vii 364
“Mark the concentred hazels that enclose” vi 71
Marriage Ceremony vii 94
Marriage of a Friend, Composed on the Eve of the iv 276
Marshall, To Cordelia vii 400