A.D. ET. 1833 63 Rydal Mount. Moresby Rectory (Apr.), where several of the Evening Voluntaries were written. Tour in the Isle of Man and in Scotland with John W. and H. Crabb Robinson (Sept., Oct.). [Pauline (R. Browning). Poems (Hartley Coleridge).] 1834 64 1835 65 Rydal Mount. [S. T. C. died (July 25th). Chas. Lamb died (Dec. 27th). 1836 66 Rydal Mount. London (May), where W. attends first night of Ion (Talfourd). Back at Rydal in June; and from June-Dec. engaged in revising poems for the projected stereotyped ed. [Pericles and Aspasia (Landor).] 1837 67 Rydal Mount. New ed. in six vols. (the fifth collective ed.) of the poems (Vols. I., II., 1836; Vols. III.-VI., 1837). Poems reprinted in the United States, ed. Henry Reed. Tour with H. Crabb Robinson through France and Italy to Rome (March-Aug.). Brinsop Court (Sept.). [Strafford (R. Browning). W. S. Landor, in requital of W.'s fancied depreciation of Southey, parodies We are Seven, and prints the Satire on Satirists, and Admonition to Detractors.] 1838 68 Rydal Mount. D. C. L. Univ. Durham (summer.) The Sonnets of W. W. collected in one vol., publ. (June). Lengthy correspondence with Talfourd, H. C. Robinson, W. E. Gladstone and others on the copyright question. Julius Hare dedicates the 2nd edition of Guesses at Truth to W. [The Seraphim, &c. (Eliz. Barrett).] 1839 69 Rydal Mount. W. petitions the House of Commons in support of Talfourd's Copyright Bill (May). D. C. L. Oxford (July). Presented by Keble, and greeted with acclamation. [Romaunt of the Page (Eliz. Barrett).] 1840 70 Rydal Mount. Pickersgill paints a portrait of W. for the Drayton Manor Gallery (summer). Miss Fenwick settles at Rydal Mount (Oct.). [Francis Hare died. Sordello (R. Browning). Fugitive Verses (Joanna Baillie).] 1841 71 Rydal Mount. W. and his family visit Taunton and Brinsop (Apr.). Dora W. married to Edw. Quillinan (May 11th) at Bath. W. revisits old haunts-Alfoxden, Tintern, Goodrich Castle, &c.; then to London (Aug.), and home to Rydal (Sept.). [Bells and Pomegranates (R. Browning), Nos. i-viii. (1841-1846).] 1842 72 Rydal Mount. London (May, June). Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years, publ. (Apr.). Resigns the Stamp-Distributorship (July). Pension of £300 per annum from Civil List conferred on W. by Sir Robt. Peel (Oct.). [Poems in two Volumes (A. Tennyson).] 1843 73 Rydal Mount. At home (spring and summer). The Quillinans at Windermere. Accepts the Laureateship (Apr.). (Robt. Southey died (March 21st). Song of the Shirt (T. Hood). Lays of Ancient Rome (Macaulay).] A.D. ET. 1844 1845 74 Rydal Mount. Keble dedicates his Prælectiones Academica to W. (March). 75 Rydal Mount. The Quillinans go to Oporto (spring). W. attends Levée and State Ball in London (May). At Brinsop Court (Sept., Oct.). New ed. of the poems in one vol., royal 8vo. Kendal and Windermere Railway: Two Letters Reprinted from the Morning Post, publ. at Kendal (Jan.; or, possibly, Dec., 1844. [Thos. Hood died.] 1846 76 Rydal Mount. Elected hon. mem. Royal Irish Academy (March). Nominated for Lord Rectorship of Glasgow Univ., and obtained a majority of twenty-one votes over Lord John Russell, who however was seated by means of the Sub-Rector's vote. The Quillinans return and settle at Loughrigg Holm (July). [Hellenics (W. S. Landor).] 1847 77 Rydal Mount. William W. marries Miss Fanny E. Graham of Brighton (Jan.). Dora Quillinan died (July 9th). The Installation Ode performed in the Senate-House, Cambr. (July). [The Princess (A. Tennyson).] 1848 78 Rydal Mount. H. Crabb Robinson comes down to Rydal, as in 1835 and 1838, for the Christmas season. [The Saint's Tragedy (C. Kingsley). The Bothie of Tober-na-vuolich (A. H. Clough). Casa Guidi 1849 79 Rydal Mount. Hartley Coleridge died, Jan. 6th. W. and wife visit Thos. Hutchinson at West Malvern (June). An ed. of the poems, in six vols., giving the results of W.'s final revision of the text, publ. 1849-50. [The Strayed Reveller, &c. (M. Arnold). Ambarvalia (A. H. Clough).] WILLIAM WORDSWORTH DIED, April 23rd. Buried in Grasmere Churchyard (April 27th). The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's Mind publ. [Rev. W. L. Bowles died.] 1850 80 The stereotyped edition of the poems in six volumes, published in 1836-7, was re-issued, with a revised and slightly altered text, in 1840; and this edition of 1840 again was also reprinted in 1841, 1842, 1843, 1846, and 1849. To the six-vol. ed. of 1842 the volume, originally published under the title of Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years, was added in the course of that same year, with the title: The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Volume VII. London: Edward Moxon. 1842. The one-vol. edition of 1845 has also been frequently reprinted. After 1850 the contents were enlarged by the addition of The Prelude, and of the nine poems first published in 1849-50. Moxon's familiar one-vol. edition,-that which has a prefatory notice from the pen of Mr. W. M. Rossetti,— is in fact but a re-issue of this ed. of 1845, with The Prelude, but without the poems of 1849-50. In 1857 a six-volume edition of the poems appeared, in which the notes dictated in 1843 by the poet to Miss Fenwick were first published, being prefixed to the individual pieces to which they severally refer. The Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff, mentioned under 1793 in the foregoing Table, remained unpublished until 1876, when it was included in the collective edition of Wordsworth's Prose Works put forth by Dr. A. B. Grosart. Besides the prose writings already noticed, Wordsworth wrote (1) the famous Preface to the second edition (1800) of the Lyrical Ballads; (2) the Appendix on Poetic Diction to the third edition (1802); (3) the Preface to The Excursion; (4) the Preface and the Essay Supplementary to the Preface of the edition of 1815; and (5) the Postscript to the Yarrow Revisited volume. Many notes also from Wordsworth's pen appeared in the several successive issues of his poems between 1793 and 1845; of which notes the poet subsequently saw fit to cancel not a few. One or two of these, which seemed well worth restoring, will be found in this volume amongst the notes of ed. 1849-50, from which they are distinguished by the addition of their proper date after the signature (W.). T. H. 1 All of these will be found in the present edition. POEMS BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH. Of the Poems in this class, "THE EVENING WALK" and "DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES" were first published in 1793. They are reprinted with some alterations that were chiefly made very soon after their publication. This notice, which was written some time ago, scarcely applies to the Poem, "Descriptive Sketches," as it now stands. The corrections, though numerous, are not, however, such as to prevent its retaining with propriety a place in the class of Juvenile Pieces 1. 1836. Is hushed, am I at rest. My Friends! restrain Where twilight glens endear my Esthwaite's shore, Those busy cares that would allay my And memory of departed pleasures, more. pain; Oh! leave me to myself, nor let me feel The officious touch that makes me droop again. III. AN EVENING WALK ADDRESSED TO A YOUNG LADY. [Composed 1787-89.-Published 1793.] General Sketch of the Lakes Author's regret of his Youth which was passed amongst themShort description of Noon-Cascade-Noontide Retreat-Precipice and sloping Lights— Face of Nature as the Sun declines-Mountain-farm, and the Cock-Slate-quarry-Sunset-Superstition of the Country connected with that moment-Swans-Female Beggar— Twilight-sounds-Western Lights-Spirits Night Moonlight - Hope-Night-sounds - FAR from my dearest Friend, 'tis mine to rove Through bare grey dell, high wood, and pastoral cove; In thoughtless gaiety I coursed the plain, And hope itself was all I knew of pain; For then the inexperienced heart would beat At times, while young Content forsook her seat, And wild Impatience, pointing upward, showed, 25 Through passes yet unreached, a brighter road. Alas! the idle tale of man is found Where Derwent rests, and listens to the Depicted in the dial's moral round; To willowy hedge-rows, and to emerald He knows but from its shade the present meads; Leads to her bridge, rude church, and cottaged grounds, hour. But why, ungrateful, dwell on idle pain? Her rocky sheepwalks, and her woodland To show what pleasures yet to me remain, Say, will my Friend, with unreluctant bounds; And shades of deep-embattled clouds were On withered briars that o'er the crags seen, 40 recline; cascade Spotting the northern cliffs with lights Save where, with sparkling foam, a small between; When crowding cattle, checked by rails Illumines, from within, the leafy shade; that make Beyond, along the vista of the brook, A fence far stretched into the shallow Where antique roots its bustling course lake, o'erlook, 66 Lashed the cool water with their restless The eye reposes on a secret bridge,3 tails, Or from high points of rock looked out for fanning gales; When school-boys stretched their length upon the green; 45 And round the broad-spread oak, a glim--Did Sabine grace adorn my living line, mering scene, In the rough fern-clad park, the herded deer Bandusia's praise, wild stream, should yield to thine ! Never shall ruthless minister of death Shook the still-twinkling tail and glanc- 'Mid thy soft glooms the glittering steel ing ear; unsheath; 75 When horses in the sunburnt intake1 No goblets shall, for thee, be crowned stood, with flowers, And vainly eyed below the tempting No kid with piteous outcry thrill thy flood, 50 Or tracked the passenger, in mute distress, With forward neck the closing gate to press bowers; The mystic shapes that by thy margin rove Then, while I wandered where the hud- Of happy wisdom, meditating good, |