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41

Allan Bank for London along with Basil Montagu; estrangement between W. and S. T. C. (Oct.). About this time W.'s poetic ill-repute is at its height (De Quincey). [The Borough (Crabbe). Lady of the Lake (Scott). Curse of Kehama (Southey).]

Allan Bank. W. moves into the Rectory (May?). Sojourns at Bootle (Aug. see Poetical Epistle to Sir Geo. Beaumont). [Thackeray

born. Bp. Percy died. Don Roderick (Scott).}

12 42 The Rectory. W. seeks through Lord Lonsdale for some office of emolument (Feb.). Visits London and is reconciled to S. T. C. (May). Catherine (June 4th) and Thomas (Dec. 1st) W. died. [Chas. Dickens born. Robert Browning born. Tales in Verse (Crabbe). Count Julian (Landor). Childe Harold, Cantos I., II. (Byron). The Isle of Palms (Wilson).]

1813 43 The Rectory. Moves into Rydal Mount (March?) Appointed StampDistributor for Westmoreland Co. (March). [Rokeby; The Bridal of Triermain (Scott). Remorse (S. T. C.), performed at Drury Lane (Jan.).]

44

Rydal Mount. Second tour in Scotland (July): Yarrow Visited. The
Excursion publ. (Aug.). [Roderick (Southey). The Feast of the
Poets (Leigh Hunt).]

1545 Rydal Mount. The first collective ed. of the poems publ. (March). Visit to London (Apr.). The White Doe of Rylstone publ. (May). [The Lord of the Isles (Scott).]

Christabel, &c.

1846 Rydal Mount. A Letter to a Friend of Robert Burns publ. Thanksgiving Ode, Jan. 18, 1816, &c., publ. [Alastor (Shelley). (S. T. C.). The Story of Rimini (Leigh Hunt).]

47 Rydal Mount. W. visits Dr. Christopher W. (brother) at Lambeth Rectory (Dec.). W. and Keats meet at Haydon's "immortal dinner" (Dec). W.'s poetry cordially praised in Blackwood. [Sibylline Leaves; Biographia Literaria (S.T.C.). Poems, 1st issue (Keats). Lalla Rookh (Moore). Harold the Dauntless (Scott). The Whistlecraft Poem (J. H. Frere).]

18 48 Rydal Mount. Correspondence with Lord Lonsdale on public affairs. Two Addresses to the Freeholders of Westmoreland, publ. at Kendal. [Childe Harold, Cantos III., IV. Revolt of Islam (Shelley). Poems (Chas. Lamb, in his collected Works). Foliage (Leigh Hunt). Endymion (Keats). Rhododaphne (T. L. Peacock).]

189 49 Rydal Mount. J.P. for Westmoreland. Peter Bell publ. (Apr.). The

1520

Waggoner publ. (May). [Don Juan, Canto I., &c. (Byron). Tales of the Hall (Crabbe). Dramatic Scenes (Proctor). Poems-Rosalind and Helen-The Euganean Hills-Hymn to Intellectual Beauty (Shelley). Arthur H. Clough born. Chas. Kingsley born.]

50 Rydal Mount. W., wife and sister start on tour (May). Oxford (May 30th); Lambeth Rectory (June-July). Tour through Switzerland to Italian Lakes and home through Paris (July 11th-Nov. 9th). Fortnight in London; do. at the Lodge, Trinity Coll., Cambr. (where Dr. Christ. W. is now Master); do. at Coleorton Hall. Home at Rydal (Dec. 24). The River Duddon: a Series of Sonnets, &c., publ. (May). Also, The Miscellaneous Poems of W. W. in four vols. (July), and The Excursion, 2nd ed. [Lamia, Isabella, Hyperion,

1821 51

1822

1823

&c. (Keats). Idyllia Heroica Decem (Landor). Prometheus Bound
The Cenci (Shelley). Marcian Colonna (Proctor).]

Rydal Mount. W. busy with the Ecclesiastical Sketches. [Keats died
Adonais (Shelley). Cain, &c. (Byron). Mirandola; A Sicilia
Story (Proctor).]

52 Rydal Mount. Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820, and Ecclesiastico
Sketches publ. (Feb. or March). Also, Description of the Scenery of th
Lakes, now first publ. separately (publ. as appendix to Duddon vol
in 1820; see also under 1810). [Shelley drowned. Hellas (Shelley).
53 Rydal Mount. Coleorton Hall (Feb.); London (Mar., Apr.); Lee Prior
near Canterbury (May). Tour through the Netherlands (May 16th-
June 30th). "Every year shows more and more how strongly W.
poetry has leavened the rising generation" (Southey). "Up to 182
the name of W. was trampled under foot; from 1820 to 1830 it wa
militant; from 1830 to 1835 it has been triumphant" (De Quincey
1835). [The Loves of the Angels (T. Moore).]

1824 54

Rydal Mount. London; Cambridge; Coleorton Hall (Apr., May). Tou in N. Wales, and visits to Robt. Jones, now Curate of Glyn Mavyr and to Thos. H. at Hindwell, Radnorshire (Aug., Sept., Oct.) [Byron died.]

1825 55 Rydal Mount. Coleorton Hall (July). Lowther Castle (Aug.). Alari Watts tries in vain to get a London publisher for an ed. of W.` collected poems.

1826

56 Rydal Mount. The Excursion, and the shorter poems, carefully revised and corrected, and the Miscellaneous Sonnets re-arranged in groups of the principle of mutual illustration, for the projected five-vol. ed. Rydal Mount. Sir Geo. Beaumont died (Feb.) An ed. in five vols. (th third collective ed.) of the poems publ., including (for the first time The Excursion. [Poems (T. Hood). The Christian Year (Keble).] 1828 58 Rydal Mount. W., Dora W., and S. T. C. go on a fortnight's tour up the

1827

1829

59

1830

Rhine (June). John W. takes holy orders, and after a time obtain
from Lord Lonsdale the living of Moresby, Cumberland.

Rydal Mount. Carriage tour through Ireland with J. Marshall, M.P. fo
Leeds (Aug., Sept.) Dorothy W.'s health begins to fail.

60 Rydal Mount. Felicia Hemans (July) and W. Rowan Hamilton (Aug.
visit W. Rev. John W. marries dau. of H. Curwen, Workington
Hall, Cumberland (Oct.). W. rides from Lancaster to Cambridg
(Nov.); London (Dec.). [Hazlitt died. Poems, chiefly Lyrica

1831 61

(A. Tennyson).]

Buxted Rectory, Sussex (the home of Dr. Christ. W.); home at Ryda (June). W., Dora W., and Charles W. (nephew), aft. Bishop o S. Andrews), visit Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford (Sept. 21st), and travel through the Highlands. Yarrow Revisited. [Corn Lan Rhymes (Eb. Elliott).]

1832 62 Rydal Mount. Moresby Rectory (June), where W. is visited by W. Savage Landor. Correspondence on Reform with Lord Lonsdale, Henry Taylor, and H. Crabb Robinson (Sept., Oct.). Edition in four vols (the fourth collective ed.) of the poems publ. [Sir W. Scott die (Sept. 21st). Rev. Geo. Crabbe died. Dr. Arnold purchases Fo How. English Songs (B. W. Proctor).]

AD ET.

183 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).]

6

65

Rydal Mount. [S. T. C. died (July 25th). Chas. Lamb died (Dec. 27th).
Italy completed (first draft publ. 1822): Rogers.]

Rydal Mount. London (Feb., Mar.), Cambridge (Apr.). Sarah Hutchinson
(sister-in-law) died (June 23rd). W. visits Thos. H. at Brinsop
Court, Herefordshire (Aug.-Nov.) Yarrow Revisited and other
Poems publ. (prob. Jan.), containing the Itinerary Sonnets of 1831,
and those of 1833; vening Voluntaries; The Egyptian Maid, &c.
[Mrs. Hemans died. Jas. Hogg died. Rev. Robt. Jones died.
Prometheus Bound, &c. (Eliz. Barrett).].

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).]

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.]

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).] 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).]

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).]

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).]

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).] 3 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

74 Rydal Mount. Keble dedicates his Prælectiones Academica to W. (March
Tour through the Duddon Valley with the Quillinans and Lad
Richardson (Sept.). [Thos. Campbell died. Poems, 2 vols. (EL
Barrett). The Bridge of Sighs (T. Hood).]

1845 75 Rydal Mount. The Quillinans go to Oporto (spring). W. attends Lev
and State Ball in London (May). At Brinsop Court (Sept., Oct
New ed. of the poems in one vol., royal 8vo. Kendal and Winderme
Railway: Two Letters Reprinted from the Morning Post, publ.
Kendal (Jan.; or, possibly, Dec., 1844. [Thos. Hood died.]
1846 76 Rydal Mount. Elected hon. mem. Royal Irish Academy (March). Nom
nated for Lord Rectorship of Glasgow Univ., and obtained
majority of twenty-one votes over Lord John Russell, who howev
was seated by means of the Sub-Rector's vote. The Quillinans retur
and settle at Loughrigg Holm (July). [Hellenics (W. S. Landor).
1847 77 Rydal Mount. William W. marries Miss Fanny E. Graham of Brighto
(Jan.). Dora Quillinan died (July 9th). The Installation O
performed in the Senate-House, Cambr. (July). [The Prince

(A. Tennyson).]

1848 78 Rydal Mount. H. Crabb Robinson comes down to Rydal, as in 1835 an 1838, for the Christmas season. [The Saint's Tragedy (C. Kingsley

The Bothie of Tober-na-vuolich (A. H. Clough). Casa Guid
Windows (Eliz. Barrett Browning).]

1849 79 Rydal Mount. Hartley Coleridge died, Jan. 6th. W. and wife visit Tho 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. 1849-5 [The Strayed Reveller, &c. (M. Arnold). Ambarvalia (A. H. Clough) 1850 80 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH DIED, April 23rd. Buried in Grasme Churchyard (April 27th). The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet Mind publ. [Rev. W. L Bowles died.]

The stereotyped edition of the poems in six volumes, published in 1836-7, was re-issued, with revised and slightly altered text, in 1840; and this edition of 1840 again was also reprinted in 184 1842, 1843, 1846, and 1849. To the six-vol ed. of 1842 the volume, originally published under the tit of Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years, was added in the course of that same year, with th title: The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Volume VII. London: Edward Moxon. 184

The one-vol. edition of 1845 has also been frequently reprinted. After 1850 the contents wel enlarged by the addition of The Prelude, and of the nine poems first published in 1849-50. Moxon 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 tl poet to Miss Fenwick were first published, being prefixed to the individual pieces to which the severally refer.

The Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff, mentioned under 1793 in the foregoing Table, remaine unpublished until 1876, when it was included in the collective edition of Wordsworth's Prose Worl put forth by Dr. A. B. Grosart.

Besides the prose writings already noticed, Wordsworth wrote (1) the famous Preface to tl second edition (1800) of the Lyrical Ballads; (2) the Appendix on Poetic Diction to the thir edition (1802); (3) the Preface to The Excursion; (4) the Preface and the Essay Supplementar 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 poon between 1793 and 1845; of which notes the poet subsequently saw fit to cancel not a few. One or tw of these, which seemed well worth restoring, will be found in this volume amongst the notes! ed. 1849-50, from which they are distinguished by the addition of their proper date after signature (W.).

1 All of these will be found in the present edition.

T. H.

POEMS

BY

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.

POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH.

Of the Poems in this class, "THE EVENING WALK" and "DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES

bed in 1793. They are reprinted with some alterations that were chiefly made very soon after her publication.

This notice, which was written some time ago, scarcely applies to the Poem, "Descriptive Seches," 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.