PREFACE. IN issuing the Sixth Volume of this Edition I again acknowledge my indebtedness to Mrs Wordsworth and Mr Gordon Wordsworth, for access to the MSS. of the Poet's works, and the two Journals of the "Tour on the Continent" in 1820, written by Mrs and by Miss Wordsworth. I have also to thank Mr Heard, Fettes College, Edinburgh, for his notes to Laodamia and Dion, and other poems; and Mr Herbert Rix for his minute and careful study of the Duddon Valley, in the light of the Sonnets relating to it. My obligations to many others will be apparent in the notes. Much of what is placed in the Appendix Notes would have found a more appropriate place amongst the poems to which they refer, had the information contained in them reached me before the earlier sheets were sent to press. WILLIAM KNIGHT. OCTOBER, 1884. |