when the poetic elements are various, some commending themselves to the shallower mind, some to the deeper. If I am to adopt Wordsworth's doctrine, I should found it on history rather than on theory; and no doubt there is to be said for it, that the poets—at least the English poets—who have been most famous in their day and generation, have not taken a corresponding rank, in the days and generations that have followed."
"A TROUBLE, not of clouds, or weep- ing rain," iii. 201, 208.
Address on Education at Bowness, ii. 397.
Address to the Scholars of a Village School, i. 26.
Address to my Sister, i. 119.
Addresses (Two) to the Freeholders of Westmoreland, ii. 295. Adversity, Ode to, by Gray, i. 367. Aikin, ii. 191.
Airy, Prof., iii. 187.
Alford, Dean, letter to, iii. 387. Alfoxden, i. 114; description of, 115; best of early lyrics written here, 119; original lease of, 144; watched by Government spy at, 145; gossip of villagers, 157; left, 160.
Alice Fell, origin of, i. 296,299; ii. 239. Allan Bank, ii. 115; removed to, 116; inconveniences of, 120; work done at, 144; letter by Dorothy to Mrs. Marshall as to life at, 150- 152; left, 160.
Allsop, T., Letters of Coleridge by, ii. 163; iii. 58; letter of Coleridge to, ii. 169; extracts from letters of, to Wordsworth, iii. 52, 53.
Mrs., letter of Coleridge to, as to мs. of Wordsworth's transla- tion of Eneid, ii, 303. Allston, Mr., iii. 309; portrait of Coleridge by, 314, 317. Alps, Pedestrian tour among the, letter of Wordsworth to Mr. Field as to change in text, iii. 151. American literature, conversation between Southey and Dr. Shelton Mackenzie as to, iii. 268.
Ancient Mariner, The, i. 156, 226. Anderson, Dr. Robert, editor of The British Poets, i. 370; ii. 218. Angelo, Michael, poetry of, ii. 67, 80. Applethwaite, description of, ii. 51;
letters of Wordsworth to Sir George Beaumont as to, 56, 72. Ariosto, translation of, i. 359; ii. 67, 324; iii. 92.
Arnold, Dr., ii. 351, 370; letter to, as to purchase of Fox How, iii. 224; 243, 257, 361.
Mrs., letter of, to Wordsworth, iii. 225; letter of, to Miss Tre- venen as to poet's reception at Oxford, 370; letters of, 434.
Matthew, i. 5; iii. 243. Askrigg, i. 203.
Aspects of Christianity in America, iii. 312.
Augustine, St., Confessions of, i. 6. Auld Robin Gray, iii. 233.
BACON, LORD, iii. 454. Baillie, Joanna, ii. 193; iii. 265. Barbauld, Mrs., ii. 191. Barrett, Miss (Mrs. Browning), Prometheus, Seraphim, iii. 244; letter of Wordsworth to John Kenyon as to volume of poems by, 364; letter to, as to sonnet by her on Haydon's portrait of Wordsworth, 365; letter to, ac- knowledging receipt of volumes of poems by, 366; marriage with Robert Browning, 414. Beattie's Minstrel, i. 82. Beaumont, Sir George, letter to, as to Raisley Calvert's legacy, i. 98; let- ter of Coleridge as to Scotch tour,
364; letter of Wordsworth to, 365; letters to, as to death of John Wordsworth, 372-376; visit of Coleridge to, ii. 12; letters to, 41- 46; letter to, as to portrait of Cole- ridge by, 44; offer of Coleorton farm-house to Wordsworth, 49; Beaumont family, 50; purchased Applethwaite, and presented it to Wordsworth, 51; Epistle to, from S. W. coast of Cumberland, 53; first collected edition of poems dedicated to, 55; several poems illustrated by, 56; letters to, 58-70, 71-79, 94-97; letter to, as to Cole- ridge, 114; letter from Coleridge to, as to The Friend, 121; Epistle to Sir George Beaumont, 160; letters of Southey to, as to Coleridge, 170- 171; letter of Wordsworth to, 171; letter of Coleridge to, as to verses in The Comet, 171; visit of Words- worth to, iii. 54; letter to, as to death of Mr. Myers, and visit to Duddonside, 65; letter to, as to tour in Wales, 101-105; letter to, 115; death of, 129; extract from Sir Walter Scott's diary as to death of, 129; verses to the memory of, 187; broad-topped pine at Rome, 290.
Beaumont, Lady, sonnet to, ii. 54; letters of Dorothy Wordsworth to, 70,71,79-83; letter of Wordsworth to, as to criticism of his own day and confidence in the decision of the future, 87-94; letter of Dorothy to, 112; another on Coleridge, 113; letter to, of Dorothy, as to John Wilson, 148-150; letter of Words- worth as to Description of Scenery of English Lake District, 158; death of, iii. 174; letter of Dorothy Wordsworth to, 211. Beggars, origin of, i. 263-265, 273; written, 299; letter to Mr. Field as to change in the text of, iii. 150.
Bell, Dr., of Madras, letter of, to Southey, ii. 387; letter of Words-
worth to the Rev. H. J. Rose as to the Madras system of educa- tion, 387.
Benjamin the Waggoner, ii. 197. Bentinck, Lady Frederick, letter to, as to the death of John Words- worth, iii. 368; letters to, 395. Bentley, Wordsworth's opinion of the Dissertation on the Epistles of Phalaris by, iii. 361. Béranger, iii. 273. Betty Foy, i. 149.
Biographia Literaria, i. 91, 124, 130, 162, 171; ii. 16. Bird of Paradise, iii. 267. Birkett, Mrs. Anne, Wordsworth's teacher at Penrith, i. 20. Blake, William, ii. 192. Blind Highland Boy, The, letter to Mr. Field as to change in text of, ii. 151.
Borderers, The, i. 107, 109; offered to Cottle, 126; rejected by the manager of Covent Garden Theatre, 127; published, 128, iii. 312, 406.
Bowles, The Rev. W. L., i. 117. Bran, The, ii. 218.
British Critic, article in, by Whew- ell, iii. 188.
Brooke, Stopford, i. 5; paper by, on the Description of the Scenery of English Lakes, ii. 158.
Brothers, The, i. 214, 218, 219, 224, 225, 267; reference to John Wordsworth in, 371; letter to C. J. Fox as to, ii. 3, 280. Brownie's Cell, The, ii. 218, 314. Browning, Robert, letter of, as to The Lost Leader, i. 78; Memora- bilia, iii. 364; letter of, 364. Bryant, W. C., visit of, to Words- worth, iii. 414.
Brydges, Sir Egerton, sonnet upon Echo and Silence by, iii. 232. Buonaparte, sonnets on, i. 320. Burke, iii. 51.
Burnett, George, i. 117.
Burns, i. 90; ii. 194, 270; letter as to
republication of Dr. Currie's Life
"CALM is all nature as a resting wheel," i. 38.
Calvert, Raisley, death of, i. 96; sonnet on, and reference to, in Prelude, 96; legacy to Words- worth, 96; letter of Wordsworth to Sir George Beaumont there- anent, 98.
William, i. 82; tour with, 84; 88, 89, 95, 97, 229, 291, 303. Cambridge, life at, i. 39; influence
of, upon Wordsworth, 40; visit to and letter to Crabb Robinson thereanent, iii. 53; sonnet on King's College, 53. Campbell, Thomas, ii. 192, 195.
Canning, opinion of pamphlet on The Convention of Cintra, ii. 128; iii. 51; Roman Catholics and Parliament, iii. 56-58.
Capital Punishment, Sonnets on, letter to Mr. Moxon as to, iii. 403.
Carlyle, Thomas, i. 61 ; iii. 312, peti- tion to House of Commons by, as to law of copyright, 323-325; reminiscences of Wordsworth by, 496-501.
Carter, John (Wordsworth's clerk), superintended publication of Pre-
lude, and edition of poems with Miss Fenwick's notes, ii. 212; iii. 385, 404, 405.
Castle of Indolence, by Thomson, stanzas in the manner of, i. 316, 324; Fenwick note on, ii. 167; iii. 420.
Celandine, The, i. 311, 312; letter of Wordsworth to Mr. Field as to change in text of, iii. 154. Chambers, proposed selection from writings by, iii. 374.
Chantrey's bust of Wordsworth, i. 150; iii. 414.
Character, A, ii. 238.
Character of the Happy Warrior, The, allusion to John Wordsworth, i. 371; ii. 46; Southey's letter to Sir Walter Scott on, 47; Mr. Myers' estimate of, 47, 195. Chatsworth, Sonnet on, iii. 187. Chaucer, i. 41; ii. 319; iii. 305, 310-311.
Christian, Mr., and Peveril of the
Clarkson, Thomas, i. 212, 256, 283, 287, 295, 304; letters of Mrs., to Crabb Robinson, ii. 172, 182, 184; visit of Dorothy to, iii. 54. Classical writers, Wordsworth's opinion of, ii. 317-319, 333. Clough, A. H., i. 5.
Cock is crowing, The, origin of, i. 306. Cockermouth, Wordsworth's birth- place, i. 12; educated here and at Penrith, 20; house in which born, 21; allusion to, in Prelude, two sonnets on, 23; holiday at, 34; days at, connected with Ode on Immortality, 37; visit with wife to, ii. 109, 111; letter to Poole as to building new church in, iii. 263. "Coldly we spake, the Saxons over- powered," iii. 266. Coleorton farm-house offered to Wordsworth by Sir George Beau- mont, ii. 49; removed to, from Dove Cottage, 52; description of, 53; some of The Ecclesiastical Son- nets written there, iii. 55.
Coleorton, Memorials of, i. 365; ii. 50, 56-82.
Coleridge, Hartley, letters of Words- worth to Poole as to, ii. 214, 246, 337; reminiscences of Westmore- land peasantry of, 344, 347, 351, 353, 362, 366, 371, 376; iii. 300, 318; letter of Wordsworth to Mr. Moxon as to, 401; death of, 482.
Lord, iii. 243, 369.
Sara, i. 5; letters of Mrs. Wordsworth to, 111; Memoir of,
S. T., i. 2, 3, 5; at Christ's Hospital, 26; his hard work, 90; introduction to Wordsworth's poems, 91; first meeting of Words- worth and, 109; marriage, 110; description of, by Dorothy Words- worth, 111; description of Dorothy by, 112; visits between the Coleridges and Wordsworths, 112; letters to Cottle, 123; Ancient Mariner, 124; leaves Stowey for Shrewsbury, 128; annuity from Wedgwoods, 128;
a talker, 129; influence of Dorothy on, 131; writes dissuading Thelwall from coming to Stowey, 145; letter to Cottle as to publish- ing, 153; visit to Hamburg, 162; effect of life in Germany on, 182; removed to Göttingen, 183; letters to Wordsworth, 184-186; death of child, 194; returns home, 195; letter to Wordsworth as to The Recluse, 195; letters to Words- worth, 201; letter of Wordsworth to, descriptive of journey from Sockburn to Grasmere, 202-207; visit of, to Dove Cottage, 210; letter to Poole as to second edition of Lyrical Ballads, 214; move- ments of, 221; letter to Sir Humphry Davy, 229; letter of Wordsworth to Poole as to, ii. 6; letter of, to Sharp, 9; opinion of, of Wordsworth as a poet, 11; letters to Wordsworth family, 12-15; closeness of tie between
Wordsworth and, 15; letters of Wordsworth and Dorothy to Sir George and Lady Beaumont as to unhappiness of, 73, 76, 80-82; arrives with Hartley at Coleorton, 83; poem by, on having heard The Prelude read, 84, 165; Dejection, an Ode, by, 64, 186; leaves Cole- orton, 86; letter of, criticising The White Doe of Rylstone, 99-104; at Allan Bank, 120; opinion of, of pamphlet on The Convention of Cintra, 128; Allsop's Letters of, 163; opium-eating, 164, 165; mis- understanding with Wordsworth, 163-187; reconciliation, and letter to Morgan, 172; letter to Words- worth, 180; another, on death of his son Thomas, 181; letters of, 255-260; publication of Biographia Literaria, 288; threatened action against the Edinburgh Review for calumny, 288; letter to Words- worth as to W.'s translation of Eneid, 302; letter to Mrs. Allsop as to Ms. of translation, 303; extracts from Mr. Barron Field's Memoir of Wordsworth as to, and his writings, 328-330; opinion of, of Wordsworth's later poems, iii. 77; at dinner at Monkhouse's, 78; Wordsworth's opinion of Christabel, 112; tour on the Rhine, 131-141; visit of Wordsworth to, in London, and letter to Rowan Hamilton thereanent, 188; letter of Words- worth to Rowan Hamilton as to, 213; death of, and grief of Words- worth thereat, 234; letter of Wordsworth to Henry Nelson Coleridge, 234; letter of the Rev. R. P. Graves as to, 235; opinion of, as a writer, 248; letter of Wordsworth to Henry Reed as to portrait of, 314; erroneous "biographical notices," 374.
Complaint, A, ii. 166.
Complaint of a Poor Indian Womar,
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