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(These sketches are not biographical digests; they present no more than backgrounds which illuminate W' s relationships with people outside his own family and relatives. Well-known writers such as Coleridge, Scott, Southey, De Quincey, Hazlitt, and Keats are excluded.)

Sir George Beaumont, landscape painter and patron of art (1753-1827). Born at Dunmow, Essex; educated at Eton and New College, Oxford; succeeded to the baronetcy in 1762; married in 1778, and toured Italy with his wife in 1782; elected to Parliament in 1790. In 1800 he began the rebuilding of Coleorton Hall. He had been a close friend of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and was one of the first to detect the merits of Wilkie and Landseer. Among the artists and writers he befriended, in addition to Wordsworth, were Coleridge, Haydon, and the sculptor John Gibson. He admired the landscapes of Wilson and Claude, but his own work rarely rises above the mediocre. His collection began with drawings of English artists such as Wilson and Girtin, and was steadily and discriminatingly augmented with works of the old masters. One of his great ambitions was the establishment of a national gallery, to which he contributed conspicuously, after the purchase of Angerstein's collection by the State, by adding sixteen of his own pictures, including Claudes, Rembrandts, and Wilkie's 'The Blind Fiddler'.

Thomas Clarkson, anti-slavery agitator (1760-1846). Son of the headmaster of Wisbech Grammar School, he was educated at St Paul's School and StJohn's, Cambridge. The subject of his prize­wining Latin essay set the course of his life. Its translation made him many friends, and led to his acquaintance with William Wilberforce. After being appointed to the committee for the suppression of the slave trade, Clarkson stayed in Paris six months, unsuccessfully endeavouring to win the support of the French Government. His health undermined by extensive

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travelling in England to collect evidence for his cause, he was compelled to retire in 1794. Nine years later he rejoined the committee, and the bill for the abolition of the slave trade was passed in January 1807, to receive the royal assent in March. In 1818 he interviewed the Emperor of Russia at Aix-la-Chapelle to secure his influence among the allied sovereigns at the forthcoming conference on ending the slave trade throughout their dominions. He and Wilberforce were made vice-presidents of the Anti-Slavery Society, but Clarkson was unable to play an active role in the movement which led to the passing of the 1833 bill for emancipating slaves within the British Empire. His health had suffered; after a period of total blindness, an operation restored his sight. He was awarded the freedom of the City of London. His last appearance on a public platform was at the Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840, a scene commemorated by the painter Haydon. He died at Playford Hall.

Derwent Coleridge (1800-1883): educated at StJohn's, Cambridge; ordained by the Bishop of Exeter in 1825, and soon afterwards made head of Helston Grammar School, Cornwall. His work The Scriptural Character of the English Church was published in 1839. In 1841 he was appointed principal of St Mark's College, Chelsea, newly founded by the National Society; here he placed great emphasis on choral services in the chapel. He was an accomplished linguist. He wrote a biography of his brother Hartley (1849), edited his poetry and prose, and (with his sister Sara) some of his father's works.

Hartley Coleridge, poet and periodical writer (1796--1849), was born at Clevedon, Somerset. From his earliest years he showed exceptional propensities for abstract thinking and romantic imaginings. After the separation of his parents, he was brought up in Southey's family, and spoilt by other occupants of Greta Hall. He became a shy young man of small physique, awkward, impatient of control, but a ready and engaging conversationalist. At Oxford the freedom of his views annoyed those in authority; his failure to win the Newdigate Prize did not improve his temperament. He was too partial to wine at parties to retain his Oriel fellowship; in compensation he was allowed £300 at the end of his probationary year. As a teacher at Ambleside, he failed to keep discipline; more self-disciplined in temporary posts at

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Sedbergh, as teacher in 1837 and head in 1838, he worked more commendably. His main literary research was devoted to the works of Massinger and Ford, his edition being published with biographies in 1840. Two volumes of his poetry and prose were collected by his brother Derwent, and appeared in 1851.

(Sir) Humphry Davy, scientist (1778-1829), was born and educated at Penzance; he developed very early a love of literature and experimental science. His education was continued privately at Truro. After his father's death, he was apprenticed to a Penzance surgeon, with whom his experimental work continued. In 1798 he was appointed Dr Beddoes' assistant, and given charge of the Pneumatic Institution at Bristol. In 1801 he became assistant lecturer at the Royal Institution, London, director of its chemical laboratory, and editor of its journals. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1803, and its secretary in 1807. His discoveries, and the eloquence of his lectures, drew distinguished audiences. His fame became European; he won the Napoleonic Prize, and was awarded the honorary degree of LL.D. at Trinity College, Dublin. After being knighted in 1812 and marrying a lady of great wealth, his tastes and company became more aristocratic. He had recognised the talents of Faraday, and made him an assistant at the Royal Institution. His scientific work in a variety of fields continued to the end, though today he is remembered chiefly for his safety lamp in mines. In 1818 he was made a baronet, and in 1820 he succeeded Sir Joseph Banks as President of the Royal Society. An apoplectic attack followed by paralysis made him retire to Italy, to which he returned, after a period in England, in 1828. As he was dying (still interested in the electricity of the torpedo), his wife and brother joined him in 1829. He rallied at Rome, but died afterwards at Geneva.

Frederick William Faber, hymn-writer and leader of Catholic converts (1814-1863). Soon after Frederick's birth his father became secretary to the Bishop of Durham. F was educated at Bishop Auckland, Kirkby Stephen, Shrewsbury, and Harrow. After two years at Balliol he became a scholar of New College, Oxford, in 1834. He won the Newdigate Prize in 1836, and was made a Fellow of New College in 1837. He was a great admirer of Henry Newman. Ordained deacon in 1837, he took a small reading party to Ambleside, assisted the Revd John Dawes there, and became

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acquainted with W. In 1845, three years after being appointed rector of Elton, Huntingdonshire, he abjured Protestantism and was received into the Catholic Church. He formed a community of converts, which was transferred from Birmingham to Cotton Hall, thanks to the munificence of the Earl of Shrewsbury. From 1849 he was superior of the newly formed London Oratory, which was transferred in 1854 to Brompton, where he died. He is remembered chiefly for his hymns; among his poems will be found one on Loughrigg, and Brathay sonnets.

William Godwin (1756--1836), born at Wisbech, son of a Dissenting minister and educated at Haxton Presbyterian College, became a 'complete unbeliever' in 1787, after five years in the ministry. He turned to literature, but it was not until Political Justice (1793) that he achieved fame and temporary fortune; he had read the manuscript of Paine's The Rights of Man, and become friendly with Thomas Holcroft and Horne Tooke. A rationalist, believing in the benevolence of mankind, he wished to sweep away the restraints of social institutions. Nevertheless, after living with the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, he married her five months before she died in giving birth to their daughter, the future Mrs Shelley. After writing his wife's biography, Godwin produced numerous works, including novels, plays, essays, and a 'Life' of Chaucer. The bookshop which he set up in London in 1805 involved him in many difficulties. The most powerful and implicitly revolutionary of his novels is Things as they Are, or the Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794).

George Huntly Gordon (1796--1868) was prevented by deafness from entering the Church of Scotland. Sir Walter Scott, for whom he acted as amanuensis, found him a post in 1826 as private secretary to Stephen Rumbold Lushington, Secretary of the Treasury. Later he worked in the Stationery Office.

Benjamin Robert Haydon, historical painter (1786--1846), was born at Plymouth. From his grandfather and from his father, a printer and publisher, he inherited a love of painting which was stimulated by a Neapolitan who described works by Raphael and Michelangelo. Needing discipline, he was transferred from a grammar school at Plymouth to another at Plympton. In 1804, determined to be a painter, he left Plymouth for London, where

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he sought advice but worked under no master. Despite successes, and the interest and help of Sir George Beaumont, H quarrelled with the Academy, alienated friends, and accumulated debts. His 'Judgment of Solomon' (1814) restored confidence in him, without making him solvent. For six years the huge canvas of 'Christ's Entry into Jerusalem' was his major preoccupation. He married in 1821, but was continually harassed by creditors. After imprisonment for debt he endeavoured to make a living by portraits and small pictures; later he was more successful in London and northern towns and cities as a lecturer. He showed astonishing energy, but his works rarely equal his inspiration; both are to be found in his journals. His pride and overpowering feelings, coupled with disappointment and financial failure, proved too much for him in the end; he shot himself in his studio.

Maria Jewsbury (1800-1833), poet and sister of the novelist Geraldine, was born in Derbyshire. Her parents moved to Manchester in 1818; on the death of her mother soon afterwards, M took charge of her sister and three brothers. Alaric Watts persuaded her to adopt literature as a profession in 1824. In 1832 she married the Revd W. K. Fletcher, a chaplain in the East India Company; she died of cholera at Poonah less than a year after reaching India. Her health was delicate, but she had a vivacious personality and quick powers of perception; cf. W's note to 'Liberty', a sequel to his poem on the vase of gold and silver fish which she presented to theWs in 1829.

John Kenyon, poet and philanthropist (1784-1856), was born in Jamaica. His parents died while he was at school in Bristol; his education continued at Charterhouse and, after some dabbling in science, at Peterhouse, Cambridge, which he left without a degree in 1808. After his marriage, he settled at Woodlands between Nether Stowey and Alfoxden, where he became friendly with Thomas Poole, and through him with Coleridge, Lamb, Wordsworth, and Southey; his philanthropy was of great benefit to STC' s family. Rich and without ambition, he lived for society and travel. The discovery that Robert Browning's father was one of his school-fellows led to an unbroken friendship with the Brownings; when they visited England, his house was their home. He was a genial host and gastronome. The wealthy brother of his

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second wife, who died in 1825, left him most of his property in 1849. The largest of his many legacies, £10,000, went to Browning.

Charles Lloyd, poet (1775-1839), eldest son of the Birmingham Quaker banker and philanthropist. His first volume of poetry was published in 1795, the year in which he met STC (who had come to Birmingham to find subscribers for The Watchman). Lloyd was so impressed by his knowledge and eloquence that he engaged to live with him at £80 p.a. in return for three hours of daily instruction. This began at Kingsdown, Bristol, and continued at Nether Stowey, where Lloyd had alarming fits. After a period in London, where he became friendly with Lamb, he returned; a breach followed when STC heard of his mischievous gossip with Lamb. Lloyd's novel Edmund Oliver drew on STC's life in the Army but was principally intended as an attack on Godwin's marriage views. After his marriage in 1799, he lived first at Barnwell near Cambridge, then at Low Brathay, Ambleside. In 1811 he began to suffer auditory illusions. He escaped from the Retreat, York, in 1818, suddenly appearing at De Quincey's cottage. During his temporary recovery he lived with his wife in London. He died in an asylum at Chaillot near Versailles. His verse, which includes a number of translations, shows descriptive talent, but is weak in expression and technique. Talfourd thought his conversation revealed fine analytical perceptiveness.

John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854), son of a Scottish minister, attended Glasgow High School and University, and proceeded early to Balliol, where he gained a first class in Classics in 1813. After a visit to Germany, where he met Goethe at Weimar, he studied law at Edinburgh, but turned to literature, and became a leading, often caustic, contributor to Blackwood's Magazine. He played no small part in attacking the 'Cockney School' of poets. He met Scott in 1818, married his daughter Sophia in 1820, wrote novels, and continued to support Blackwood. When Murray made him editor of The Quarterly Magazine in 1825 at £1000 p.a., he moved to London. It is to his credit that he sent the profits from his greatest work, the biography of Scott, to pay Sir Walter's creditors. Reserved and proud, he left an impression of coldness which often belied him; his last years were saddened by his isolation. He went to Italy in search of health, and returned, like Scott, to die at Abbotsford.

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Harriet Martineau (1802-1876), writer and sister of the theologian James M, was born at Norwich in a Unitarian family of Huguenot descent. She was educated, first at home, then in a Norwich school where she learnt French and Latin. Afterwards she became deaf for life, and suffered frequently from poor health. Writing became a serious exercise when her father's camlet-manufacturing business failed in 1829. Soon, influenced by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, she began to enjoy success as a writer of tales laced with political economy. From the proceeds she made an investment which was to provide an annuity of £100 from 1850. Acting on medical advice, she travelled in 1834 to America, where she did not conceal her anti-slavery feelings. After her return in 1836 she wrote Society in America and Deerbrook, a novel. Her health at Tynemouth from 1839 to 1844 was poor until she was regularly mesmerized by Spencer T. Hall and Mrs Wynard. She then moved to Ambleside, and at Clappersgate bought land for her new home 'The Knoll' (completed in 1846), and sufficient for a small farm, which she developed with the aid of a Norfolk labourer. Her visit to Egypt and Palestine followed. Letters on the Laws of Man's Social Nature (1851), an agnostic correspondence with H. G. Atkinson, created considerable offence, and alienated her brother James. Enthusiasm for Comte led to her abridgment of his Positive Philosophy (1853) and to the visit of Marian Evans (the future George Eliot) in October 1852, when her model cottages were highly admired; (Charlotte Bronte had stayed with her in December 1850). She contributed to periodicals and wrote a guide to the Lakes. When she died her Autobiography had reached 1855; she was buried at Birmingham.

Thomas Poole of Nether Stowey (1765-1837) was brought up to follow his father's tannery business (which he inherited in 1795), and educated largely as a result of his own initiative. He remained unmarried. He gave STC financial support after the failure of his politically progressive publication The Watchman, and introduced him to Thomas Wedgwood and his brothers. In 1809 he advanced money for The Friend. Hartley Coleridge stayed with him during Oxford vacations. Poole became actively interested in the poor laws and in the Sunday School movement. (See Mrs Henry Sandford, Thomas Poole and his Friends, 1888.)

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after being articled to an attorney at Colchester, he entered a London solicitor's office. The death of an uncle in 1798 brought him an annual income of £100, which enabled him to travel. As a result he became proficient in German, met Goethe and Schiller in 1801, and settled at Jena, where he became acquainted with Mme de Stael. The Napoleonic war enforced his return to England in 1805, and he became foreign correspondent of The Times, later foreign editor. During the Spanish insurrection against the French he was its special correspondent in the Peninsula, returning with Sir John Moore's army after the battle of Corunna. After observing his terms in the Middle Temple, he was called to the bar in 1813, when he joined the Norfolk circuit, from which he retired in 1828. His friends were notable and numerous not only in England but also in western Europe. He was a founder of the Athenaeum Club and of University College, London. He is remembered chiefly for his diaries, which are characterized by shrewd, liberal judgment.

Samuel Rogers, poet (1763-1855), entered his father's City bank after being privately educated, and became head of the firm in 1793, a year after the publication of The Pleasures of Memory, the poem which made him famous. In 1803 he resigned from his bank with an income of £5000 p.a., to remain a devotee of the arts, a bachelor host at 22 StJames's Place, and a generous patron. His taste was fastidious; his conversation, shrewd and often tart. His art collection was sold at his death for £50,000; three of his pictures - a Titian, a Guido Reni, and a Giorgione - were bequeathed to the National Gallery.

Hugh James Rose, classical scholar and theologian (179.>-1838), was educated at Uckfield school, Sussex, where his father, a local curate, was master, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He won the first Bell scholarship at the University in 1814. Missing a Fellowship, he was ordained deacon in 1818, and became curate at Buxted, Sussex, then vicar of Horsham. He spent a year in Germany for the sake of his health, and on his return delivered, as select preacher at Cambridge (a position he held for a num­ber of years), four sermons directed against the rationalization of theology in Germany. A conference which took place at Hadleigh, Suffolk, when he was rector there in 1833, may be regarded as an early stage in the Tractarian movement. After being compelled by ill-health to resign the Professorship of

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Divinity at the University of Durham in 1834, Rose became domestic chaplain to Archbishop Howley. In 1836 he became Principal of King's College, London. He had hardly begun his duties when he was stricken with influenza, from the effects of which he never recovered. He left in October 1838 to winter in Italy, and died at Florence in December.

Richard ('Conversation') Sharp (1759-1835), son of an English officer, was born at the British garrison, Newfoundland. After partnership in a West India trading firm in London, he set up business as a hat-manufacturer at the same address. He was keenly interested in politics and literature, and knew Johnson and Burke. His friendship with Samuel Rogers began in 1792. He was an original member of the literary society which was founded in 1806. As an M.P., he was elected to important committees. At Fredley Farm, Mickleham, near Dorking, he met the chief persons of his day. He often travelled on the Continent, and frequently visited the Lake District. Wordsworth said that he did not know anyone with a greater knowledge of Italy. In 1828 Sharp issued privately his anonymous Epistles in Verse. He died unmarried at Dorchester on his way to London, his ward and adopted child Maria Kinnaird inheriting the bulk of his property.

(Sir) John Stoddart, journalist and advocate (177~1856), born at Salisbury, educated at Salisbury Grammar School and Christ Church, Oxford. His Remarks on the Local Scenery and Manners of Scotland was published in two volumes in 1801, the year in which he became a member of the College of Advocates. From 1803 to 1807 he was the King's and the Admiralty advocate in Malta. After being a leading writer for The Times, he started a rival newspaper, The New Times, in February 1817. In 1826 he was appointed Chief Justice of the Admiralty Court in Malta, and knighted by George IV at StJames's Palace.

Daniel Stuart, journalist (1766--1846), was born in Edinburgh, and sent to London in 1778 to join his brothers in a printing business. In 1788 he and one of his brothers undertook the printing of The Morning Post, which they acquired in 1795 for £600. In Daniel's hands it became a leading, Tory-inclined daily. Eight years later he sold this paper for £25,000, and concentrated on The Courier, an evening paper which he acquired in 1796. It was a great

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success, particularly among the clergy. After withdrawing from The Courier in 1822, he bought Wykeham Park, Oxfordshire.

Thomas Noon Talfourd, judge and author (1795--1854), was born at Reading, where he was educated after a period at Mill Hill. He read law with Joseph Chitty, but gave much time to literature and politics. His friendship with Charles Lamb began in 1815. His taste in poetry changed under the influence of Wordsworth's, on which he wrote an enlightened essay in The New Monthly Magazine. He married in 1822, soon after becoming a barrister. The demands of his legal profession did not tum him from literature. The best of his tragedies is Ion, which, with its premiere on Talfourd's birthday, 26 May 1836, scored a brilliant success. He is remembered more for his memoirs of Charles Lamb. He was returned three times as M.P. for Reading, and gained much distinction in the House by his handling of the Copyright Bill.

John Thelwall, reformer and lecturer on elocution (1764-1834), was the son of a London mercer. Distaste for the business and for the family discord which followed his father's death made him look elsewhere for employment. After serving as a tailor's apprentice, and studying law and divinity, he published two volumes of poetry in 1787. Idealistic and independent-minded, he became intoxicated with French revolutionary doctrines, and was such an eloquent demagogue that Home Tooke offered to send him to a university. In 1791 he married, began the study of medicine, and joined the Society of the Friends of the People. On the evidence of Government spies he was arrested in 1794, and sent to the Tower with Home Tooke and Thomas Hardy; at the end of the year he was acquitted. He left London, and for almost two years remained a public critic of the Government. The desire for a more peaceful life led to his settling as a farmer near Brecon. In 1800 he began his career as a highly gifted and popular lecturer on elocution. His interest in the cure of stammering increased, and in 1809 he began such a practice in Lincoln's Inn Fields. In 1818 he turned to parliamentary reform, but the failure of his journal The Champion made him return to elocution, on which he lectured in various parts of the country. He was a man of sanguine temperament and integrity who held fast to his democratic convictions.

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John Wilson, author (1785-1854), the 'Christopher North' of Blackwood's Magazine, was born at Paisley, where he attended school. From Glasgow University he proceeded to Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1803. An athlete of amazing strength, he won the Newdigate Prize (for poetry) in 1806. After purchasing a cottage and land at Elleray, with a superb view over Windermere, he settled there, and dedicated himself to poetry and sport. Four years after his marriage in 1811 he lost his inherited fortune as a result of his uncle's dishonesty. He was received by his mother in Edinburgh, and, with J. G. Lockhart, became the foremost of Blackwood's writers at a time when high-spirited insensitivity could tum into malignity for the entertainment of readers with a limited range. When Lockhart moved to London in 1825, Wilson became virtually editor of Blackwood's. With no real qualifications he was elected for political motives to the Chair of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University in 1820. Better qualified in literature, he revealed himself at his best in his numerous contributions to the series of Noctes Ambrosianae which lasted from 1822 to 1835. He returned to Elleray for holiday periods, but life was saddened for him by the death of his wife Jane in 1837.

Bibliography The Wordsworth letters are by far the most important source of information for Wordsworth's life as a whole, especially as edited in the revised edition of the first six volumes of The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth (previously arranged and edited by Ernest de Selincourt), Oxford:

1. 1787-1805, revised by C. L. Shaver, Oxford, 1967. 2. 1806-1811, revised by Mary Moorman, Oxford, 1969. 3. 1812-1820, revised by Mary Moorman and Alan G. Hill ,

Oxford, 1970. 4. 1821-1828, revised by Alan G. Hill, Oxford, 1978. 5. 1829-1834, revised by Alan G. Hill, Oxford, 1979. 6. 1835-1839, revised by Alan G. Hill, Oxford, 1982.

Ernest de Selincourt' s edition has been used for the remaining letters:

7. 1831-1840, Oxford, 1939. 8. 1841-1850, Oxford, 1939.

For particular periods (at Alfoxden and Grasmere, the 1803 tour in Scotland, and the 1820 tour on the Continent) the most descriptive and detailed accounts will be found in Dorothy's journals:

Ernest de Selincourt (ed.), Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (2 vols), London, 1941.

Three supplementary volumes of letters are recommended:

Kathleen Coburn (ed.), The Letters of Sara Hutchinson, London, 1954.

Mary E. Burton (ed.), The Letters of Mary Wordsworth (selected), Oxford, 1958.

Beth Darlington (ed.), The Love Letters of William and Mary Wordsworth, London, 1982.

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To these should be added the letters of S. T. Coleridge, especially the first three volumes, and those of John Wordsworth:

Earl Leslie Griggs (ed.), Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (6 vols, issued in pairs), Oxford, 1956, 1959, 1971.

Carl H. Ketcham (ed.), The Letters of John Wordsworth, Ithaca, N.Y., 1969.

The diarist Henry Crabb Robinson is one of the most rewarding sources:

Thomas Sadler (ed.), Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson (2 vols), London and New York, 1872.

Edith J. Morley (ed.), The Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson with the Wordsworth Circle (2 vols), Oxford, 1927.

Edith J. Morley (ed.), Henry Crabb Robinson on Books and their Authors (3 vols), London, 1938.

Of contemporary records which have more incidental relevance, four are specially recommended: the letters of Charles Lamb and John Keats, and

Kathleen Coburn (ed.), The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (3 vols), London, 1957, 1962, 1973.

Willard Bissel Pope (ed.), The Diary of Benjamin Robert Haydon (5 vols), Cambridge, Mass., 1960 and 1963.

Much valuable information will be found in Mary Moorman, William Wordsworth, A Biography (2 vols):

The Early Years, 1770-1803, Oxford, 1957. The Later Years, 180~1850, Oxford, 1965.

The most exhaustive chronological study is by Mark L. Reed; it is probably too acronymic and conjectural for all but those who wish to specialize in Wordsworth biography. Two volumes have appeared:

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Wordsworth: The Chronology of the Early Years, 1770--1799, Cambridge, Mass., 1967.

Wordsworth: The Chronology of the Middle Years, 1800--1815, Cambridge, Mass., 1975.

For guidance on the dates of many of Wordsworth's poems, the notes which he dictated to Isabella Fenwick (and which are usually provided in editions of his collected poems), though not always reliable, contain useful information additional to that found elsewhere. Almost all of this relevant evidence is provided in the notes of Ernest de Selincourt's edition of The Poetical Works ofWilliam Wordsworth, Oxford: vol. 1, 1940: vol. rr, second edition, 1952; vols m-v, 1946, 1947, 1949.

General Index

Abbotsford 94, 159, 160, 184, 228 Adelaide, Queen 192, 193 Aders, Charles 124, 144 Aira Force 37, 58, 172 Albert, Prince 214 Alfoxden 26ff, 66, 177, 195, 196 Allan Bank 60--1, 71, 72, 73, 74-Sff Allston, Washington 85-6, 86,

109, 203 Alsager, Mr 105 Arnbleside 38, 40, 55, 63, 76, 88,

89, 91, 96--7, 109, 122, 169, 208 HCR at 101, 119, 199-200 IF at 186, 187, 192, 211 Q and Dora at 198, 201, 207,

210 Anderson, Dr Robert 44, 94 Appleby 77, 83, 88, 90, 99, 106--7,

117, 137, 155 Applethwaite 51, 55, 57, 59 Ariosto 50 Arnold, Dr and Mrs 161, 162, 163,

168, 169, 187, 189 at Rugby 168, 179, 189 Dr Thomas 163, 173, 177, 187,

199,206 Mrs Mary 204, 206, 208, 212,

215 daughters 209 Matthew, son 220

Austrian lakes 181

Bailey, Benjamin 161 Baillie, Joanna 87, 157 Barker, Miss 92, 107--8, 110, 116 Barker, Mrs (W's cousin) 18 Barrett, Elizabeth 176, 186, 200,

206, 227 Bartholomew, John 26, 29 Barton 36 Bassenthwaite 17, 37, 39, 163 Bath 16, 188, 194-5, 214

Baudouin, Caroline 100, 103, 104, 116, 171, 179

Beaumont, Sir George and Lady 51, 55, 57, 58, 62, 63, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 72, 73, 80, 84, 90, 93,96, 97,97--8,112,124,130, 132, 139, 149, 180, 187, 223, 227

at Coleorton 68, 80, 105, 117, 123-4, 127, 130, 134, 138, 141

at Dunmow 56, 73 at Grasmere 71 at Keswick 51, 71, 98, 102, 107 in London 66, 85, 86, 128 at RMt 98, 102, 107, 137 Sir George's pictures 59, 66, 73,

97, 98, 139, 192; (collected) 141, 233

Beaupuy, Michel 13 Bell, Dr Andrew 84, 86, 88, 89,

108, 109, 146, 159, 211-12 Birmingham 32, 65, 80, 85, 9&-9,

123-4, 141-2, 171, 184, 194, 203

Binfield 66, 81 Blackwood's Magazine 109, 152,

201, 228, 233 Blair, Alexander 80, 142 Blake, William 87 Blakeney, Mr 91, 95, 118, 123 Blakesley, J. W. 162, 176 Bligh, Capt. (of The Bounty) 23 Blois 13-14, 15 Blomfield, C. J. 88, 140, 142, 144,

148, 157, 195, 198, 218 Bolton Abbey 71, 101, 125 Bolton, John 134 (Storrs Hall), 142,

152, 155, 174 Bonaparte, Napoleon 47, 51, 69,

79, 92-3, 96--7, 100, 113, 115, 139, 140, 180

Bootie 83-4

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Borrowdale 37, 88, 107-8, 152, 153, 200-1

Bowles, W. L. 8, 86, 188 Bowness 37, 106, 146, 169, 174,

206,209 Boxall, William 158 Branthwaite 5, 18, 59 Brathay 40, 68, 72, 99, 100, 162 Bremen 146, 148, 155 Brigham 162, 164, 177, 190, 193,

197, 202, 205, 207, 210, 215, 217, 218, 219

Brighton 12, 158, 213, 214, 215, 217

Brinsop Court 130, 131, 134, 136, 138, 140, 141, 142, 145, 151, 166, 172, 182, 188, 193, 194, 203,210

Brisco 216, 217 Bristol 16, 21, 22, 24, 27, 28, 32,

33, 72, 93, 143, 186, 195 Broad How 64, 66, 67-8, 135, 166 Broadstairs 182 Brougham, Henry 105, 106, 107,

108, 111, 136 Brougham Castle 6, 69 Brougham Hall 58, 62, 64, 65 Broughton-in-Fumess 7, 18 Browning, Robert 176, 227 Bryant, W. C. 209 Bucdeuch, Duke of 193 Bunsen, Baron ('Chevalier') 189 Burger, Gottfried 34 Bums, Robert 52, 87, 100, 106,

109, 165, 205, 206 Bury St Edmunds see Clarkson Buttermere 37, 101, 137, 192 Buxted 158, 230; see Wordsworth,

Christopher (brother) Byron, Lord 87, 94, 111, 126, 128

Calais 8, 10, 49, 112, 179 Calder Abbey 101, 103, 192 Calgarth Park 15, 155 Calvert, Raisley 18-19

legacy toW 18, 19, 21, 31, 33 Calvert, William 16, 17, 18, 45, 46,

76, 107, 125, 147 Cambridge 5-8, 10, 11-12, 81,

117, 143, 156, 156-7, 167-8, 171, 207, 214; see StJohn's and Trinity

Canning, George 116, 134, 140 Canterbury 8, 182

Archbishop of see Howley Carlisle 40, 52, 93, 158, 160, 165,

167, 199, 200, 203, 204, 205, 214, 217, 219

Carlyle, Thomas 16-17 Carrick, Thomas 216 Carruthers, Richard 103, 105 Carter, John 91, 122, 132, 194,

199, 209 Cartmel 4, 18, 128, 133 Cary, H. F. 124, 176 Catullus 181 Chantrey, (Sir) Francis 112, 116-

17, 119, 121, 127, 135 (Scott's bust), 210

Chantrey, Lady 175 Chatham 182, 183, 189 Chatsworth 156 Chaucer, Geoffrey 44, 50, 190,

191-2 Cheddar Gorge 32 Chepstow 16, 33, 195 Chester, John 30, 34 Chiabrera, Gabriello 79, 172, 180 Christian, Edward and Fletcher 23 Cintra, Convention of 75, 76, 125 Clarkson, Thomas and Catherine

45, 48, 55, 58, 61, 70, 72, 76, 83, 95, 99, 104, 168, 185-6, 213, 221-2,223-4

at Dove Cottage 40, 43, 44 at Eusemere 37, 42, 44, 45, 46-

7, 48, 51, 126 visiting the Lake District 62-3,

71, 78, 121 at Bury St Edmunds 70, 75, 81,

98 Playford Hall 103, 105, 117, 128,

222 Clarkson, Thomas (son) 78, 179 Cockermouth 1-2, 3-4, 37, 71,

101, 175, 177, 217 Coleorton Hall 65, 84, 86, 156,

195-6, 223; see Beaumont

General Index 239

Coleorton Farm 63, 67, 68 Coleridge, Berkeley (son) 32 Coleridge, Derwent (son) 40, 56,

58, 64, 69, 72, 76, 85, 117, 153, 163, 210, 219, 224, 225

Coleridge, Edward (nephew) 127 Coleridge, Hartley (son) 23, 43,

58, 69, 70, 155, 169, 183--4, 190, 218, 219, 224-5, 229

at school 76, 85, 91, 93 at Oxford 96, 97, 224 teaching 121, 123, 125, 134, 184 at theWs' 43, 72, 76, 128, 183,

217 drunkenness 136, 149, 152, 153,

156, 173 Coleridge, Henry Nelson

(nephew) 155, 169 Coleridge, (Sir) John Taylor

(nephew) 105, 177, 183, 203 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 21-57

passim, 97--8, 104, 124, 127, 157, 168, 169, 229

Mediterranean period 59--67 passim

return 67--8, 68ff London lectures 72, 73, 86, 87 at Allan Bank 75--80 passim quarrel with W 81, 83, 85-7, 90 Rhineland tour with W and

Dora 144 poems: The Ancient Mariner

27, 30, 36; Christabel 30, 40; Dejection: An Ode 46, 47; The Eolian Harp 25; Hexameters 34; This Lime­tree Bower 26; The Wanderings of Cain 27; William Wordsworth, To 69-70,97

Biographia Literaria 23, 104 The Friend 76--80 passim, 229 Osorio 25-6, 30

Coleridge, Mrs (Sara) 24, 26, 42, 50, 58, 59, 61, 65, 68, 72, 109, 132, 148, 153, 156, 179, 210

Coleridge, Sara (daughter) 50, 58, 76, 88, 107, 109, 125, 132, 143, 148, 150, 156, 179, 183, 191, 224

Collins, William (painter) 107 Collins, William (poet) 145, 146 Colthouse 4, 6, 7, 7--8 Como, Lake 9, 114-15, 181 Coniston 3, 122 Coniston Water 5, 110, 125, 153,

192 Constable, John 68, 176 Cookson, Ann see Wordsworth,

Ann Cookson, Christopher (Uncle Kit)

5, 8, 13; see Crackanthorpe Cookson, Elizabeth (daughter of

Mrs C. of Kendal) 188 Cookson, Mrs (of Kendal) 91,

103 Cookson, Revd William (W' s

uncle) 5, 6, 12, 15, 23, 49, 66, 85, 105, 189

Cottle, Joseph 21, 22, 28, 30, 31, 31-2,32,33,34,36, 143,150

The Courier 76, 77, 231-2 Coventry 171 Cowper, William 194 Coxe, William 8, 10 Crabbe, George 76

his son 175 Crackanthorpe, Christopher 36,

38 his wife 17

Crosthwaite, Samuel 166 Crowcombe 31 Cruikshank, Mr and Mrs 29, 30 Crummock Water 37, 101 Crump, Mr (and his family) 60,

71, 78, 83, 94, 127, 129, 154 Cunningham, Allan 121, 127, 135,

142, 168 Curwen, Clara 216 Curwen, John 154, 182, 202 Curwen, Isabella 154, 155; see

Wordsworth, Isabella

Darwin, Erasmus 30, 32 Davy, (Sir) Humphry 38, 39, 58,

63,86, 159,163,225 Davy, Dr John 159, 182, 183, 189,

202, 204, 208

240 General Index

Dawes, Revd John 76, 81 (his school), 85, 91, 97, 99-100, 121, 123, 125, 225-6

De Quincey, Thomas 56, 66, 72, 75, 76, 77, 89, 94, 95, 96, 99, 103,125,149,228

Dove Cottage 77, 78, 79, 82, 92, 95, 101

The Westmorland Gazette 107, 110

Fox Ghyll 118, 123, 128 Donne, John 164 Dora's Field 135, 136, 138, 153,

206 Douglas, Charles 22, 23, 38 Douglas, Harriet 140, 154, 158 Dove Cottage 37ff, 49ff, 62, 67; see

DeQuincey Dovedale (Derbys.) 6, 7, 8, 80 Dover 8, 49, 112, 116, 124, 183 Dowling, Ann 106, 107, 120, 125,

165 Dowling, Jane 126 Dryden, John 64, 73, 75, 127 Duddon, river and valley 3, 59,

76, 84, 117, 149, 153, 186, 192 Duppa, Richard 59, 60 Durham 185 Dyce, Alexander 145, 146, 151,

153,164,204 Dyer, George 59 Dyer, James 143 Dyer, John 84, 146

Eamont, river 6, 45, 64 The Earl of Abergavenny 8, 11, 24,

36, 40, 61, 62 Easedale 72, 73, 137, 208 Eden, valley and river 117, 165 Edgeworth, Maria 51 Edinburgh 53, 54, 56, 94, 99, 102,

122, 123 Edridge, Henry 59, 66 Elleray 75, 79, 82, 95, 99, 134, 149,

173,233 Elliott, Ebenezer 174 Elton (Hunts.) 207, 226 Elton (near Stockton-on-Tees)

202,203

Emerson, Ralph Waldo 166 Ennerdale 37, 59, 71, 101, 192 Eskdale (Lake District) 76, 192 Eskdale (Scotland) 93 Esthwaite 3, 4, 72 Eton College 176 Eusemere 57, 64, 71, 75, 88, 104;

see Clarkson

Faber, F. W. 189, 200, 201, 207, 225-6

Fawcett, Joseph 15 Fenwick, Isabella 171, 174, 179,

188, 189, 196, 199, 202, 203, 208, 213, 216, 217

at or near RMt 159, 186, 187, 190, 192, 197, 200-5 passim, 209, 211, 215, 219

in London 171, 179, 182, 191, 194,206,221-2

in the south of England 183, 191, 206, 219

at Bath 188, 195, 214, 216 Durham and Northumberland

185, 193, 204 her Wordsworth notes 201,

216-17,236 Fermor, Mrs 130, 131 Field, Barron 145, 191 Fisher, Canon 189, 195 Fisher, Emmeline 195-6,210 Fleming, John 4, 107, 169 Fleming, Lady 89-90, 121, 123,

135,206-7 Fletcher, Miss 98, 106 Fletcher, Mrs 208, 220 Flimby 205,206 Fomcett 6, 7, 10, 12, 15, 16 Fox, Charles James 41-2, 43, 66,

68, 186 Fox Ghyll 125, 131, 133, 137, 163,

168; see De Quincey Fox How 163, 168, 169, 173, 177,

187,220 Foxley see Price France 8-9, 12-14, 15, 16-17, 18,

20,45, 116,179-80 Furness Abbey 4, 103, 192, 209

General Index 241

Galignani, edition of W' s poems 146

Gallow Hill 39, 42, 46, 48, 49, 55 Gardner, Dr John 161, 162, 169 Gaskell, Mrs Elizabeth 191, 192,

220 Gee, Mr and Mrs George 107,

108, 110, 117, 120, 126, 141, 143, 168, 180, 194

Germany 10, 30, 32-3, 33-5, 113, 144, 155, 156, 181; see Bremen and Heidelberg

Gifford, William 96, 164 Gill, Joseph 24 Gillies, Margaret 190 Gillies, R. P. 94, 95, 96, 104 Gilpin, William 8, 16, 22, 33 Gladstone, W. E. 176, 184, 185,

198, 199, 200, 205, 207 Glasgow 43, 52, 93, 160

University of 186, 213 Glenalmond School 212, 221 Goddard, F. W. 114, 149 Godwin, William 15, 20, 22, 23,

28, 31, 66, 98, 100, 226 Goldsmith, Oliver 151 Gondo, the gorge 9, 115 Goodrich Castle 16, 33 Gordale Scar 39, 71, 87 Gordon, George Huntly 146, 148,

149,226 Gorsas 16-17 Goslar 34-5 Gough, Charles 63 Grande Chartreuse, the 9, 10, 13 Graham, Mr (companion in N.

Italy) 135-6 Grahame, Robert 45-6, 67, 93 Grasmere, the lake 39, 40, 45, 51,

60,118 Town End 152, 153; see Dove

Cottage the parsonage 83, 89 the Vale of 4, 60, 71 the village 18, 37, 62-3, 67, 71,

152, 172, 219, 221 the Wishing-Gate 43, 196, 206-7

Grattan, Thomas Colley 144, 157-8

Graves, Revd R. P. 169, 177, 206 Gray, Thomas 145, 174, 185 Green, Sally 72, 73

death of her parents 73, 74 orphan fund 73, 74, 76, 90

Greenhead Gill 40-1, 56 Greenwood, Robert 3, 171 Greta Hall: Coleridge 38, 39, 47,

50, 55, 70, 75 Scott a guest 63, 134 the Southeys 55, 58, 76, 88, 94,

130, 134, 137, 147, 152, 162, 169, 183, 190, 192, 202, 219

Greystoke 16, 19 Grisedale Pass and Tarn 37, 40,

45, 57, 62, 67

Hacket 82, 83-4, 88, 107 Halifax 2, 5, 17, 20, 70, 103, 149,

150 Hallam, Arthur 157, 166 Hallam, Henry 124, 176, 214 Hallsteads 99, 103, 104, 107, 126,

134, 150, 152, 160, 163, 166, 169, 172, 177, 200, 201, 203, 204,218

Hamilton, Thomas 165, 168, 173 Hamilton, (Sir) William Rowan

141, 149, 150, 151, 155, 174, 183,186,206,212

Hampstead 87, 112, 156, 157, 171, 177, 179, 194, 199, 209, 212, 214

Hampton Court 143, 195 Hancock, Robert 32 Harden, John 68

his daughter 120 Hare, Augustus 123, 127, 129 Hare, Julius 140, 162, 163, 171,

176, 185, 206 Harrogate 118, 124-5, 134, 140 Harrow School 184; see

Wordsworth, Christopher (son ofCW)

Harwich 11, 13, 25 Haweswater 37, 121, 126 Hawkshead 3-5 passim, 37, 43, 68,

125, 148, 212; see Colthouse

242 General Index

Haydon, B. R. 98, 99, 102-3, 104-5, 108, 111, 117, 158, 159, 193, 199,212,223,224,226-7

Hazlitt, William 32, 51, 55, 55--6, 74, 98, 106, 111, 120

Heidelberg 113, 156, 181 Helvellyn 37, 40, 42, 43, 63, 103,

163, 193 Hemans, Mrs Felicia 154-5, 167,

169, 173 Hendon 126, 127, 143, 168, 194 Hereford 77, 130, 143, 203 Hindwell 77, 80, 81, 85, 87, 94, 95,

121, 130, 131 Hine, Joseph 159 Hoare, Mrs 112, 157, 158, 168,

171, 179, 182, 191, 194, 199, 209, 212, 214

Hobart, J. H. 129 Hogg, James 94, 172-3 Holford 29, 30 Holland 124, 144 Holland, Lord and Lady 71, 74,

175 Hook, Mrs James 168, 172, 179,

182 Howley, William 110, 132;

(Archbishop of Canterbury) 157, 167, 176, 182, 187, 198, 231

Howitt, William and Mary 140, 158, 166

Hunt, Leigh 98 Hunter, Joseph 160 Hurst and Robinson 133, 134, 136 Hutchinson, Elizabeth (daughter of

Thomas) 173, 221 Hutchinson, George (brother of

MW) 35, 37, 45, 46, 60, 65, 78

Hutchinson, George (son of Thomas) 168, 219

Hutchinson, Henry (brother of MW) 24, 74, 84, 137, 142, 144, 152, 153, 166

Hutchinson, Henry (uncle) 19, 72, 82

Hutchinson, Joanna (sister) 55, 65, 67, 71, 72, 77, 82, 88, 103,

122, 137, 142, 144, 145, 152, 153,154,180,190,202,203

Hutchinson, John (brother) 64, 72, 101, 118, 122, 165, 166

Hutchinson, Margaret (sister) 20, 22

Hutchinson, Mary 2, 4, 6, 7, 20, 24, 25, 26, 35, 37, 38, 38-9, 42-8 passim; see Wordsworth, Mary

Hutchinson, Mary (nee Monkhouse; wife of Thomas, MW's brother) 109, 110, 133, 134, 171, 196, 201, 219, 221

Hutchinson, Mary (daughter of Thomas) 165

Hutchinson, Sara (sister of MW) 7, 37, 41-50 passim, 58, 59, 61, 65,67,68,69,70,71,74-80 passim, 84, 87, 88, 89, 91, 92, 93, 97, 98, 99, 101, 103, 104, 109, 110, 118, 122, 123, 124, 126, 127, 130, 130-1, 133, 134, 140, 145, 151, 165, 166, 168, 169, 171-2

Hutchinson, Sarah (daughter of Thomas) 1%, 221

Hutchinson, Thomas (brother of MW) 7, 35, 38-9, 43, 45, 55, 67, 77, 87, 88, 110, 121, 134, 179, 182, 193, 203, 219, 220

Hutchinson, Thomas (son of the above) 155,168,171,220

Hutton, Thomas 101, 102, 103 Hymers, John 161

Ingleton 3, 39, 71 Inglis, Sir Robert 133, 176 Ings Chapel 4, 49 Inman, Henry 206 Iona 165 Ireland 78, 118, 131, 148, 15(}-1 Isola, Agostino 7 Isola, Emma 166 Italy 9, 114-15, 180 Ivy Cottage 100, 107, 108, 120,

122, 125, 138, 140, 165 Ivy How 107, 108, 163

General Index 243

Jedburgh 54 Jeffrey, Francis 56, 72, 95-6, 145,

158 Jerdan, William 144-5, 145 Jewsbury, Maria 132, 133, 135,

145, 149, 156, 227 Johnson, Joseph 14, 35 Johnson, Revd William 83, 84, 86,

109, 110, 118, 128, 175, 182, 220 Jones, Robert 8--10, 11, 16, 40,

112, 122, 129--30, 147, 149, 160, 166, 171

Jonson, Ben 54

Keats, John 102--6 passim, 111, 180, 199

Keble, John 123, 124, 189, 200 The Keepsake 137, 142, 143, 146,

147, 149 Kendal 6, 17, 37-8, 56, 68, 71, 78,

79, 91, 94, 97, 103, 105, 106, 172, 207, 208

Kennedy, Dr 185 Kents Bank 133 Kenyon, John 116, 117, 118, 127,

137, 139, 143-4, 158, 161, 166--7, 175, 176, 185, 186, 189, 199, 227-8

Keswick 17, 19, 37, 50, 51, 55, 58, 71, 77, 102, 119, 150, 167, 192, 201-2, 203; see Greta Hall (which some Keswick references must signify)

Kingston, Mr 104, 105, 106 Kirkby Lonsdale 102, 103, 207 Kirkby Stephen 91 Kirkstone Pass 47, 50, 60, 99, 122,

152, 200 Klopstock, Friedrich 34

Laing, David and Miss 122, 122-3, 125, 139, 168, 173, 186

Lamb, Charles 26, 49, 56, 65, 85, 96, 104, 109, 124, 136, 145, 165, 170, 173, 196, 199, 232

and Mary 49, 66, 73, 81, 86, 97, 105, 116, 124, 128, 143

Lambeth 101; see Wordsworth, Christopher (brother)

Lambeth Palace 176 Landor, Walter Savage 119, 126,

130, 162, 175, 179, 201 Langhorne, John 178 Langdale Pikes 99, 138, 206 Leamington 138, 168, 172, 178,

179,207 Lee Priory 121 (Kent), 123,

128, 130 Leeds 71, 128, 177, 210 Le Grice, Charles Valentine 196 Levens 71, 152, 200, 207 Lewis, 'Monk' 32 Lewthwaite, Hannah 67 Lichfield 70, 133 Liswyn Farm 33 Liverpool 60, 82, 89, 94, 127, 138,

162, 182; see Crump Liverpool, Lord 89, 158, 176 Llandaff, Bishop of see Watson,

Richard Lloyd, Charles 27, 31-2, 32, 40,

44, 65, 72, 74, 81, 98--9, 100, 120, 131, 228

Lloyd, Priscilla 41; see Wordsworth, Priscilla

Lockhart, J. G., Mr and Mrs 134, 163, 176, 183, 184, 195, 196, 197, 228, 233

London 6, 8, 11, 14, 15, 20, 23, 27-8,33-4,49,66,70,73-4, 85-7, 97-8, 104-5, 112, 116-17, 124, 127-8, 143-4, 157, 158, 170-1, 175-7, 179, 182, 188--9, 195, 198--9, 214

Longinus 132 Longman, Thomas 38, 41, 42, 73,

74, 93, 102, 120, 131, 134, 138, 138--9, 139, 163, 168

Lonsdale, first Earl of see Lowther, Sir James

Lonsdale, William Lowther, second Earl of (cf. p. 71) 48, 50-1, 58, 67-8, 71, 76, 84-5, 89, 90, 91, 93, 97, 104, 105, 106, 108, 119, 126, 127, 131, 133, 135, 141, 142, 156, 161, 170, 175,178,190,198,199,205

Lorton 37, 59

244 General Index

Losh, James 14, 20, 30, 32, 33, 40, 43, 119, 119-20

Loughrigg Fell 138, 141 Loughrigg Holme see Quillinan Loughrigg Tam 58, 63, 83, 206 Louis XVI 14, 15, 116 Low Wood 17, 71, 88, 126 Lowther (village) 117, 121 Lowther Castle 64, 67-8, 71, 91,

95,99, 104,106,110,122,125-6, 133, 134, 137, 141, 150, 151-2, 163, 165-6, 169, 170, 172, 189-90,193,197,206

Lowther, Col. Henry 105, 106, 107, 111, 122, 136, 137, 155, 163

Lowther, Lady Mary 110; (Lady Bentinck) 134,205

Lowther, Lord 105-9 passim, 111, 117, 119, 120, 121, 122, 136, 137, 155, 163

Lowther, Sir James 1, 5, 21, 47, 48,59

Luff, Mr (Capt.) and Mrs 43, 44, 47, 49, 57, 64, 67, 75, 84, 99, 110, 128, 130, 131, 133, 137, 168

Lyulph's Tower 57-8, 137, 152, 172

Mackenzie, Mrs 180, 192 Mackereth, George 67, 69 Malham Cove 71, 87 Malta 57, 59, 61, 66, 231 Malvern 142, 219, 219-20 Man, Isle of 137, 142, 144, 150,

151, 152, 153, 165, 167 Manchester 80, 81-2, 99, 133, 145,

148, 156, 171, 177 Marsh, Peggy 66 Marshall, Jane (nee Pollard, q.v.)

and John 20, 21, 22, 24, 40, 71, 72, 88, 94-5, 101, 135, 150, 151, 162, 176, 177, 188, 195, 201, 210, 218; see Hallsteads

Marshall, James (son) 150, 151 Marshall, John (son) 162 Marshall, William (son) 150

Martineau, Harriet 203, 208, 211, 212, 220, 221, 229

Massinger, Philip 31-2, 225 Mathews, William 11, 12, 13, 18,

19, 20, 21, 22 Mathon 219-20 Melrose 54, 94 Merewether, Revd Francis 142,

143, 146, 166, 174, 183, 196 Michelangelo 60, 124, 226 Milan 115, 181 Mill, J. s. 159 Millom 1, 3, 117 Milnes, Richard Monckton 166,

184 Milton, John 3, 82, 84, 93, 98, 104,

173 Monkhouse, Jane (wife of

Thomas) 112, 113, 1B-14, 115-16, 121, 126, 127, 135

Monkhouse, John 75, 77, 79, 107, 131, 136 (the Stow), 140, 141, 203, 209, 217

Monkhouse, Mary 59, 75, 77, 88; see Hutchinson, Mary

Monkhouse, Mary (daughter of Thomas) 168-9, 201

Monkhouse, Thomas 60, 87, 88, 91, 97, 104, 107, 110, 112, 113--16, 121, 124, 125, 127, 130--2

Montagu, Algernon (Basil's son) 81, 83

Montagu, Basil 20--5 passim, 27, 28, 31, 36, 43, 45, 59, 66, 70, 81, 83, 85, 90, 91-2, 92, 101, 137, 149, 169

Montagu, Basil (junior) 20, 22, 24, 26, 27, 29, 33, 91-2, 92

Monteagle, Lord 199, 205; see Spring-Rice

Monteagle, Lady 205, 215 Montgomery, James 127 Montgomery, Robert 170 Moore, Thomas 116, 124, 182 Moresby 2, 150, 153, 159, 162; see

Wordsworth, John (son) The Morning Post 39, 50, 207, 208,

231

General Index 245

Moxon, Edward 138, 154, 158, 165-85 passim, 189-90, 191, 192, 197, 202, 205, 209, 210, 212, 214, 219

Murray, John 133, 138, 228 Myers, John 5, 117, 118 Myers, Revd Thomas 36, 48

Napoleon see Bonaparte Naworth 93 Nelson, Lord 64, 65 Nether Stowey 24, 26ff, 177, 195,

196 Netherlands, the 112, 123, 124,

144 Newbiggin Hall 1, 13, 36, 37, 63,

218 Newcastle 7, 19, 160, 185, 186,

193, 205 Newton, Sir Isaac 4, 81 Newton, Robert 37, 62--3, 88 Nicholson, Samuel 15, 27 Northampton, Marquis of 176,

186, 198 Nottingham 70, 158

Orleans 12-14 passim Otway, Thomas 80 Owen, Robert 52, 93 Oxford 33, 85, %, 97, 112, 123-4,

125, 127, 140, 142, 152, 160, 189

Paris 9, 12, 14, 116, 179 Park House 55, 57, 58, 59, 63, 64,

67 Pasley, Capt. (Col.) 83, 97 Patterdale 1, 3, 43, 50, 62, 63, 64,

99, 137, 150 Peace, John 186, 188, 189, 196,

197,218 Peake, Mary (daughter of W's

cousin Richard) 90, 91, 99 Peel, Sir Robert 170, 184, 193, 195,

198,199,200 Peele Castle see Piel Castle Penrith 1-8 passim, 19, 20, 44-5,

45, 48, 51, 64, 72, 77, 85, 88, 91, 99, 126, 174, 218, 219

Perceval, Spencer 85, 86 Percy, Thomas 34, 72 Peterborough 48-9 Pickersgill, Henry 161, 162, 163,

170, 171, 175, 178, 193 Piel Castle 18, 66 Pinney, Azariah and John 20, 21-

2 Pitt, William 65 Playford Hall 103, 105, 128, 168,

224 Plumbland 192, 197, 210, 215 Plymouth 195 Pollard, Jane 5, 11, 16; see

Marshall Poole, Thomas 24-31 passim, 35,

36, 42, 43, 77, 93, 96, 138, 177, 227,229

Pope,AJexander 73,120,147,204 Porlock (and Lynmouth) 27 Powell, Thomas 190, 191 Preston 112, 127, 135, 156, 169,

191 Price, Sir Uvedale and Lady

Caroline 81, 87, 130, 131, 142 (Foxley)

Princess Regent (Caroline of Brunswick) 86

Quillinan, Edward 118, 125, 141, 146, 151, 152, 153-4, 161, 164, 192, 201, 203, 204, 205, 213, 214, 216, 219, 220, 221; (his first wife) 119, 120, 121

at Lee Priory 123, 124, 128 in London 143, 148, 158, 175,

176, 199 at~t 140,152,161-2,177,190 and Dora 179, 183, 184, 187,

188, 193, 195, 197, 205, 212, 213

at Ambleside 198, 201 on Belle Isle 202, 206 Portugal 208, 209, 212 (return) Loughrigg Holme 212-13, 216,

217,219 Quillinan, Jemima 121, 128, 175,

192,212

246 General Index

Quillinan, Rotha 118, 119, 121, 128, 158, 162, 168, 175

Racedown 20--6, 46, 66, 195 Ramond de Carbonnieres 10 Rampside 18 Rawson, Mr and Mrs (Elizabeth,

nee Threlkeld) 16, 17, 20, 32, 33, 88, 103, 126, 149

Reed, Henry 190-1, 206 Reynolds, F. M. 137, 142, 146,

147, 149 Reynolds, J. H. 102, 109 Reynolds, Sir Joshua 58, 153, 223 Richmond, Duchess of 91 Richmond, J. C. 220 Rievaulx Abbey 48 Robespierre, Maximilian 14, 18 Robinson, Henry Crabb 55, 120,

130, 131, 133, 135, 139, 149, 153, 164, 166, 168, 171, 178, 185-6, 187, 197, 199, 200, 201, 203, 205, 210, 215, 216-17, 219, 220,222,229-30

in London 73, 81, 85, 86, 97, 98, 104, 106, 112, 116, 124, 139, 143, 170, 171, 175, 182, 195, 198-9,212

in the Lake District 101, 103, 119, 138, 165, 173, 187, 193--4, 197, 199-200, 200-1, 204, 207-8, 211, 214, 216, 218, 219

1820 tour 113--16 in Scotland 118, 165 1837tour 176-7,177,179-81

Robinson, John -11 Robinson, Mary 37; (and

Hatfield) 52, 55 Robinson, Mrs (W' s cousin) 118,

210 Rogers, Samuel 8, 76, 122, 126,

131, 132, 139, 141, 154, 155, 156, 159, 167, 174, 230, 231

in the Lake District 43, 51, 88, 137, 169, 193, 206

in London 66, 87, 105, 117, 124, 143, 170, 175, 179, 182, 195, 198, 199, 209

Rome 180, 189, 211 Rose, Hugh James 146, 147, 157,

179, 187, 230-1 Rossall, Revd Dr (his school) 212,

213, 215, 218 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 10, 24 Rugby 168, 179, 189 Rush, Sir William 43 Rydal 37, 44, 107, 173, 192 Rydal Chapel 123, 221 Rydal Hall 89, 95 Rydal Mount 89ff

building improvements 121, 150, 151

Rydal Water 17, 38, 39, 40, 135, 139, 152, 153, 192

St Bees 107-8, 164, 167, 204 StJohn's College, Cambridge 3, 5,

159, 168, 171 Salisbury 189, 195 Salisbury Plain 16 Satterthwaite, Dr 117, 121, 126,

141 Schlegal, A. W. 144 Scotland 43, 52-5, 93--4, 122, 159-

60, 165, 193 Scott, John 98, 100 Scott, (Sir) Walter 58, 60,:-66, 67,

73, 75, 87, 118, 123, 133, 135, 136,154,163,183,226,228

in Scotland 54-5, 159, 160 in the Lake District 63, 134, 163 in London 70, 98, 143, 195

Sedbergh 37, 49 Sedbergh School 111, 117, 119,

122, 138, 146, 168, 184, 218, 218-19, 221

Sedgwick, Adam 120, 167, 167-8, 172, 199, 205

Severn, Joseph 180, 182 Sharp, Richard 43, 60, 62, 74, 85,

88, 111-12, 122, 124, 155, 231 Shenstone, William 80, 146, 178 Shrewsbury, Lord 196, 226 Shuter, William 31 Smith, Charlotte 12 Smith, Mary 7, 18 Smith, Mrs Proctor 182

General Index 247

Snowdon 11, 57, 136 Sockbridge 1, 36, 77, 102, 172,

174, 178; see Wordsworth, Richard (brother)

Sockburn-on-Tees 7, 19, 20, 35, 36,37

Sotheby, William 57 Southey, Bertha 140, 155, 157 Southey, Cuthbert 155 Southey, Edith 88, 109, 125, 126,

130, 139, 140, 142, 143, 152, 167; (Mrs Warter) 180-1, 202

Southey, Kate 194, 202, 209, 213, 217,219

Southey, Mrs 21, 55, 169, 183 Southey, Robert 21; see Greta

Hall; 77, 92, 96, 103, 104, 109, 112, 140, 141, 157, 172, 174, 187, 201, 203, 224

visits W 61, 78, 84, 122, 132, 140 in London 143-4, 157, 170 publications 22, 125, 139, 165

The Spectator 11, 69, 116 Spedding, James 157, 171, 175,

194 Spedding, John 17, 39, 76, 163 Spenser, Edmund 3, 44, 96 (The

Faerie Queene), 97 Spinoza 27 Spring-Rice, Thomas 175, 176,

188; see Monteagle, Lord Staffa 160, 165 Stephen, James 175, 178, 184, 217 Stockton-on-Tees 19, 64, 72, 91,

101, 110, 118, 122, 165, 202, 203

Stoddart, (Sir) John 23, 41, 42, 50, 67, 74, 159, 231

Storrs Hall see Bolton, John Stowey see Nether Stowey Stuart, Daniel 76, 91, 231-2 Switzerland 9-10, 113--14, 115,

133, 181 Sympson, Revd Joseph 39, 40, 71

Talfourd, Thomas Noon 104, 124, 143, 170, 175--6, 181, 183, 184, 185, 187, 188, 198, 199, 206, 228,232

Taylor, Henry 126, 158, 159, 168, 171, 175, 189, 194, 196, 198, 213,222

Taylor, Revd William 4, 18 Tennyson, Alfred 157, 171, 209,

212 Thelwall, John 26, 33, 56, 186-7,

232 Thirlmere 39, 43 Thomson, James 47, 146 Threlkeld 37, 44, 46, 58, 89, 140 Threlkeld, Elizabeth 2; see Rawson Threlkeld, Mrs William (E' s sister-

in-law) 62, 63 Ticknor, George 172, 181, 185 Tillbrooke, Revd Samuel 78, 88,

100, 101, 104, 107, 125, 138, 140

Tintern Abbey 16, 33, 184, 194-5 Tobin, James 23, 27, 28, 29, 31 Townshend, Revd C. H. 152,192 Trafalgar, battle 64 Trinity College, Cambridge 12,

114, 140, 146, 149, 157, 166, 171, 196, 214

Trinity Lodge 117, 124, 128, 143, 148, 156-7, 168, 171, 183, 189

Tyson, Ann 3--6 passim, 7--8, 37, 53

Ullswater 1, 3, 37, 45, 47, 60, 64, 67, 153, 206; cf. Hallsteads, Patterdale, Watermillock

Ulverston 80, 125, 153

Vallon, Annette 12-14, 15, 21, 45, 46, 49, 87, 104, 116; (Caroline) 14, 45, 49, 87, 96, 97; see Baudouin

Victoria, Queen 201, 202, 207, 208-9, 211, 221

Wales 11, 16, 50, 81, 87--8, 128-30, 148, 149, 150

Walrnisley, Attwood 214--15 Walton, Isaac 72-3 Wastdale 37, 59, 71, 76, 78, 107,

162, 192

248 General Index

Watchet 27 Watendlath 39, 63 Waterloo, battle 91, 98, 100;

battlefield 112, 144 Watermillock 88, 89, 99 Watson, Joshua 157, 175, 179 Watson, Richard 15, 73, 91; (Mrs)

155 Watts, Alaric 130, 133, 133-4, 134.

136,139,140,161,227 Webster, Daniel 189 Wedgwood, Josiah 30, 33, 86 Wedgwood, Thomas 27, 30, 50,

57,229 Weir, Miss 83, 88, 99 Wellington, Duke of 82, 100, 139 Wensleydale 37, 49, 119 West, Benjamin 86 Westall, William 108, 109, 176, 191 Weymouth 61 Whateley, Archbishop 212 Whitaker, Dr Thomas 72 Whitehaven 1, 2, 7, 8, 17-18, 18,

71, 91, 97, 150, 154, 162, 165, 167, 215

Whitehaven Castle (Lord Lonsdale's) 156, 172, 190

Whitwick 141-6 passim, 148-9 Wight, Isle of 15-16, 212 Wilberforce, William 98, 107, 108,

185-6, 200, 223-4 Wilkie, David 66, 86, 127, 223 Wilkin, F. W. 175 Wilkin, Mr 77,90 Wilkinson, Revd Joseph 78, 80 Wilkinson, Joshua Lucock 14, 44,

46 Wilkinson, Thomas 44-5, 54, 63,

64,66,67-8, 78,102,104 Williams, Helen Maria 12, 116 Wilson, Revd Carus 100 Wilson, John 233

in the Lake District 75, 77, 78; see Elleray; 88, 91, 134, 155, 202

Edinburgh and Blackwood's 94, 109, 111, 147

Winchester 123, 172, 189, 195, 211-12

Winchilsea, Anne, Countess of 110, 151, 153

Windermere 3, 4, 6, 15, 17, 37, 63, 75,103,122,134, 153;0Belle Isle or 'The Island') 154, 155, 160,202,206,207

Windsor 49,85, 105,176,195 Windy Brow 17, 18, 19,46 Wollstonecraft, Mary 31, 226 Woodlands 29, 227 Woodward, Mrs A. M. 198 Worcester 81, 130, 138, 142, 143 Wordsworth, Ann (mother) 1,

2 Wordsworth, Catharine

(daughter) 75, 76, 80, 82, 83, 87, 88, 154

Wordsworth, Charles (son of CW) 122, 140, 142, 143, 160, 172, 188-9, 210; see Winchester and Glenalmond

Wordsworth, Christopher (brother) 1, 4, 5, 7, 12, 15, 41, 49, 50, 51, 59, 81, 98, 112, 128, 141, 146, 154, 155, 157, 161, 178, 179, 182, 194, 199, 200; see Trinity College and Lodge

Lambeth 65, 66, 70, 85, 100, 101, 104, 111, 112

Bocking 87, 98 Sundridge 100, 104, 110, 112 the Lake District 122, 155, 163

(c£.107), 196, 206 Buxted 157, 158, 211

Wordsworth, Christopher (son of CW) 141, 142, 143, 160, 167, 168, 171, 174, 187, 189--90

Harrow 174, 189, 194, 195, 204, 207

the Lake District 122, 140, 151 (c£.150), 166, 167, 202, 216

Westminster 207, 214, 214-15 Memoirs of W 10, 11, 216, 221

Wordsworth, Dorothy (sister) 1, 2 and passim; see Halifax

Racedown 21-6 Alfoxden 26££ Germany 34-5 Grasmere 37ff

General Index 249

Wordsworth, Dorothy -continued Scotland, tour and Recollections

52-5, 58, 62, 122 Fairfield 88 DrBell 88 Kendal, 1818 electioneering 106 Scafell climb 108 Continental tour, 1820,and

Journal 112-16, 118 Scotland with Joanna H 122 at Brinsop Court 136-8 Isle of Man 144 at Whitwick 145-9 illnesses 148, 150, 151, 161, 171 final phase 173, 193-4, 206, 218,

221 Wordsworth, Dorothy ('Sissy',

'Dora', daughter) 58, 67, 82, 88, 89, 91, 103, 107, 109, 121-215 passim; see Quillinan

tour in Wales 127, 128-30 Kents Bank 133 Lockhart 134 Brinsop Court, London, and

Rhineland tour 140-4 Scotland with W 159, 160 Stockton with MW 165 ill-health 139--40, 153, 154, 155,

164, 169, 171, 172, 173, 177, 178, 198, 209

and Leamington 172, 179 Helvellyn 193 W and her marriage 136, 153 Mrs Quillinan 195ff Portugal and Spain 208-9,

(return) 212, (journal) 213 Wordsworth, Fanny (wife of W's

son William) 213, 214-18 passim

Wordsworth, Gordon (grandson) 25

Wordsworth, Isabella (wife of W's son John) 154, 155, 156, 160, 162, 164, 165, 166, 171, 172, 193,202,203,205,206,209, 211, 212, 215, 217, 218

Wordsworth, Jane (grand­daughter) 164, 215, 216, 217, 219,220,222

Wordsworth, John (father) 1, 2, 3, 5,101

Wordsworth, John (brother) 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 24, 36--44 passim, 61-2, 62, 65, 87

Wordsworth, John (son) 51, 65, 80,83,84, 104,110,152,155, 156, 167, 178, 179, 182, 183, 185, 192, 193, 195, 215, 220; see Brigham and Plumbland

pre-university education 91, 97, 99-100, 103, 108, 109, 111, 117, 122

Oxford 123-4, 127, 136, 138, 139

Whitwick 141, 142, 143, 146, 148, 149

Moresby 146, 148, 149, 153, 156, 164, 167

engagement and marriage 154, 156

Isle of Man 150, 165 Scotland 93, 94, 156, 165 Workington rectorate 168, 172 abroad 205, 208, 211 his children 164, 169, 203, 209,

211, 212, 213, 218, 218-19, 221; see Jane W

Wordsworth, John (Capt., cousin) 8, 17-18,23,24,40,58,62,64, 65, 88, 99, 102, 104

Wordsworth, John (son of CW) 122, 140, 142, 143, 160, 162, 168, 184, 186, 191

Wordsworth, John ('Keswick}', son of RW) 99, 102, 118-19

education 146, 148, 153, 161, 162, 168, 169

inheritance 172, 173, 174, 178 with W in London 175, 176 appointments in the Army

Medical Service 189, 202 final phase 203, 211, 212, 213

Wordsworth,Mary(nee Hutchinson, q.v.) 49-222 passim

inheritance 82 tour of Scotland 93-4 and Keats 105

250 General Index

Wordsworth, Mary- continued Continental tour, 1820 112-16,

118 Whitwick 143, 145, 148 preparing John's house at

Moresby 156 visits to her brother Tom after

his accident 179, 188, 193, 194, 203, 210, 219-20

devotion to her grandchildren (e.g.) 177, 205, 206, 217, 218-19

Wordsworth, Priscilla (nee Lloyd, wife of CW) 59, 65, 66, 81, 98

Wordsworth, Richard (grandfather) 1, 11

Wordsworth, Richard (uncle) 1, 2, 5, 7, 11, 12, 17-18, 18, 19

Wordsworth, Richard (brother) 1-9 passim, 12, 13, 14, 19, 24, 25, 44, 49, 61, 63, 66, 92, 100, 101

the Lonsdale debt 48, 50-1 at Sockbridge 59, 79, 80, 84, 95,

99 posthumous settlement of his

own debts 101-3; see Wordsworth, John (son of RW)

Wordsworth, Mrs Richard 92, 99, 102, 118-19, 126; (Mrs Lightfoot) 153, 161, 203, 213

Wordsworth, Richard (cousin) 5, 18, 59,90

Wordsworth, Robinson (cousin) 25

Wordsworth, Susanna (wife of CW junior) 189, 214, 216, 221

Wordsworth, Thomas (son) 66, 82, 83, 85, 88, 89, 90

Wordsworth, William on books 3, 24, 147, 153, 187,

196, 210-11 Catholicism 82-3, 119-20, 133,

148, 196, 205; (in Ireland) 131, 151

the Church of England 166, 167-8

copyright 76, 109, 170, 176, 181,

183, 184, 185, 187, 188, 197, 198

education 75, 83, 84, 133, 146, 147, 174, 210-11

the French Revolution 14, 15, 18, 105, 144, 170

the Laureateship 202 Nature 19, 25, 132 paintings, interest in 70, 73, 85,

85-6, 112, 116, 127, 141, 175, 176

parliamentary reform 108, 119-20, 157, 158, 160, 162, 166, 170

portraits of 31, 32, 51, 66, 103, 104, 105, 158, 163, 166, 170, 175 (Wilkin), 178, 182, 190, 193, 199, 206, 216

his reading (indications of) 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 27, 34, 65, 72-3, 75, 82, 119, 145, 146-7, 151, 164

on slavery 164-5 the sonnet 164 his Stamp-Distributorship 90,

90-1, 91, 93, 102, 103, 105, 106, 112, 148, 153, 158, 158-9, 165, 170, 175, 198, 199

his trachoma 60, 82, 92, 110, 111, 112, 118, 119, 120, 122, 124, 132, 134, 137, 148, 149, 152, 159, 160, 162-3, 166, 175, 181, 186, 197, 202, 211

Tractarianism 200, 201-2, 205, 207-8

zoological interests 116, 171, 175

Wordsworth, William (son) 80, 82, 84, 96, 103, 110, 117, 126, 133, 139, 144, 148, 158, 159, 167, 168, 188, 195, 197, 205, 208, 210, 214

illnesses 89, 95, 121, 122, 128, 130,208

education 110, 118, 119, 121, 122, 125, 132, 133

career and continued education in Germany 145, 146, 147, 148, 151, 156, 158

General Index 251

Wordsworth, William- continued Sub-Distributorship 161, 162,

163, 170, 175, 176 Distributorship 188, 198, 199 marriage 213, 214; see

Wordsworth, .Fanny Workington 154, 156, 168, 169,

172, 182, 216 Wrangham, Revd Francis 20, 21,

22, 42, 75, 82, 85, 100, 142; (and Juvenal) 21, 22, 24, 68-9

Wycliffe, John 141 Wye, valley and river 16, 33, 81,

141, 194-5, 203

Wyon,E. W. 172,214 Wythbum 39

Yanwath 64, 67 (with Wilkinson), 104

Yarrow, river and valley 94, 160

Yewdale 4, 84 York 5, 100, 118, 119, 137, 169,

203, 210, 217, 228 Y oudell, Betty and Sarah 82, 83-4,

88

Index to Wordsworth's Poetry and Prose

Aeneid translations 126, 127 Airey-Foree Valley 172 Alice Fell 45--6 Anacreon 4

A Ballad 4 'Beaumont! it was thy wish' 57 Beauty and Moonlight 4 Beggars 38 The Bird of Paradise 171-2 The Blind Highland Boy 69 The Borderers 23-8 passim, 30, 194,

197, 198 The Brothers 37, 38, 39, 42, 59 Brougham Castle, Song at the

Feastof 69 Bruges, Incident at 144 Burns, A Letter to a Friend of Robert

100, 101, 102, 106, 109 Burns, At the Grave of 173 (Burns) Thoughts 173, 191 Butterfly, To a 2, 46

Catechising 2 Cenotaph 131 A Character 40 Characteristics of a Child Three

Years Old 83, 90 'Chatsworth! thy stately mansion'

156 Cintra, Concerning ... the

Convention of 76, 77 Clarkson, To Thomas 70 Cockermouth Castle, Address

from the Spirit of 2 A Complaint 70 Composed at Cora Linn 52 The Contrast 130 The Cuckoo at Lavema 181 Cuckoo, To the 46

The Cuckoo-Oock 192 Cumberland, On a High Part of

the Coast of 2, 164

Daisy, To the 63 'Dear native regions' 5 Death, Sonnets upon the

Punishmentof 191,196,197 'Degenerate Douglas!' 54 Descriptive Sketches 9-10, 10, 11,

13,14,22-3,128,130 Desultory Stanzas 114 Devil's Bridge, To the Torrent at

the 129 Devotional Incitements 162 Dion 97 Dora, To 60 Duddon, The River 3, 108, 110 (and

dedication), 111 Duty, Ode to 56 Dyer, John, To the Poet 84

Ecclesiastical Sonnets 2, 117, 118, 120, 166, 200

Echo, upon the Gemmi 115 The Egyptian Maid 146 Elegiac Musings (on Sir G.

Beaumont) 156--7 Elegiac Stanzas (on F. W.

Goddard) 114 Elegiac Stanzas (on Mrs Fermor)

131 Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a

Picture of Peele Castle 18, 66 Elegiac Verses ('The Sheep-boy

whistled loud') 62 The Emigrant Mother 46 'Enlightened Teacher, gladly from

thy hand' 204 Enterprise, To 120 Epistle (to Sir G. Beaumont) 84

252

Index to Wordsworth's Poetry and Prose 253

Epitaphs, Essay upon 79 Essay, Supplementary to the

Preface 95, 96, 97 Esthwaite, The Vale of 4, 5 Evening of Extraordinary

Splendour and Beauty, Composed upon an 103, 109

An Evening Walk 6, 8, 14, 17, 128 The Excursion 15, 25, 62, 80, 83,

84, 90, 92--8 passim, 111, 132, 139, 176, 189, 205

reference to passages 64, 67, 71, 82, 90, 96; for Book 1, see The Ruined Cottage and The Pedlar

Expostulation and Reply 32

'The fairest, brightest, hues of ether fade' 88

The Farmer of Tilsbury Vale 39 Fast, Upon the late General 162 Fidelity 63 Fleming, To the Lady 123 A Flower Garden 131 The Force of Prayer 71, 72 'From the dark chambers of

dejection freed' 95 Furness Abbey, At 209

The Gleaner 143 Glen Almain 54, 64 The Glow-worm see the 'Lucy'

poems Goody Blake and Harry Gill 32 Grasmere, Home at 4, 38, 57, 67 Green, George and Sarah 74 Guide to the lAkes 78, 108, 111, 120,

123, 172

Happy Warrior, Character of the 65

Hart-leap Well 37 Hawkshead, Lines Written as a

School Exercise at 4 Haydon, To B. R. (on seeing his

picture of Napoleon) 159 'High is our calling, Friend!' (to

Haydon) 99 Highland Girl, To a 53

Hogg, James, Extempore Effusion upon the Death of 172-3

The Horn of Egremont Castle 69 'How clear, how keen, how

marvellously bright' 99 'How rich that forehead's calm

expanse!' 131

'I wandered lonely as a cloud' 47 The Idiot Boy 32, 43 'If this great world of joy and

pain' 166 Inscription (for Southey's

memorial) 203 Installation Ode 214, 21~15 Intimations of Immortality 46, 48,

57 'It is a beauteous evening' 49

A Jewish Fainily 144

Kilchurn Castle, Address to 53 King's College Chapel, Cambridge,

Inside of 117

'Lady, I rifled a Parnassian Cave' 110

Lamb, Charles, Written after the Death of 172

Laodamia 95,97 'Let other bards of angels sing'

131 Liberty 227 Lines ('Loud is the Vale') 68 Lines ('Nay, Traveller! rest') 3 Lines Left upon a Seat in a Yew-

tree 25 Lines on the Expected Invasion 55 Long Meg and her Daughters 117 'Lucy' poems 34, 43, 46 ('Among

all lovely things') Lycoris, Ode to 97, 103 Lyrical Ballads 32, 33, 35-6; (new

edition, 2 vols) 38, 39, 40-2, 48, 63; (preface) 39, 40, 48, 56

March, Written in 47 Maternal Grief 90 Mathetes, Reply to 78, 79

254 Index to Wordsworth's Poetry and Prose

The Matron of Jedborough 0 o 0 54 'Matthew' poems 3 Memorial, Near the Outlet of the

Lake of Thun 113 Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837

187, 197 Memorials of a Tour on the Continent,

1820 114, 115, 119, 120, 220 'Men of the Western World! in

Fate's dark book' 190-1 ~chael 4,41,42,49,56 Musings near Aquapendente 180,

194

A Night-piece 28 The Norman Boy 194 November, 1806 69 November, 1836 171 Nutting 3, 34

'0 dearer far than light and life are dear' 131

Oker Hill, A Tradition of 143 The Old Cumberland Beggar 25 'Once I could hail (howe'er serene

the sky)' 137 Oxford, May 30, 1820 112

A Parsonage in Oxfordshire 112 The Pedlar 40, 44, 45, 46, 57 Peter Bell 16, 31, 32, 35, 46, 73, 86,

109,112 The Pine of Monte Mario at Rome

180, 187 Poems IJy William Wordsworth 97,

100-1 Poems Chiefly of Early and Later

Years 197, 199 Poems, Composed or Suggested

During a Tour, 1833 166 Poems in Two Volu!71es 70 Poems on the Naming of Places

39 (To Joanna, The Fir Grove), 40 (Point Rash Judgment; cfo 39, 41)

Postscript, 1835 170 Power of Music 66 Power of Sound, On the 155 Preface (1815) 95, 96, 97

The Prelude 36, 56, 56-7, 57, 59, 62, 65, 70, 161, 162, 188, 221

reference to passages 2-20 passim, 23, 34, 53, 57, 81

The Primrose of the Rock 47

Railway, On the Projected Kendal and Windermere 207

The Rainbow 46 The Recluse 26-7, 29, 36, 56, 57, 62,

65, 67, %, 104, 110, 118, 130, 138, 152, 185; see Home at Grasmere

The Redbreast Chasing the Butterfly 47

Resolution and Independence 40, 47, 47-8, 48, 51

The Ruined Cottage 25,25-6,29, 147

The Russian Fugitive 147 Ruth 39

'Said Secrecy to Cowardice and Fraud' 184

The Sailor's Mother 46 the Salisbury Plain poem 16, 17,

21, 22, 23, 30, 32, 35, 185 Scott, Sir Walter (on his departure

from Abbotsford) 160, 161 September 18020 Near Dover 83 September, 1819 110 Seven Sisters, The 39 Sister, To my 30 'So fair, so sweet, withal so

sensitive' 206 The Solitary Reaper 54, 64 A Somersetshire Tragedy 25 The Somnambulist 137 The Sonnets of William Wordsworth

185, 190 Spade of a Friend, To the 64, 69 The Sparrow's Nest 2 Star-Gazers 66 Stepping Westward 54, 62 Stray Pleasures 66 'A Stream, to mingle with your

favourite Dee' 129 'Surprised by joy' 87

Index to Wordsworth's Poetry and Prose 255

The Tables Turned 32 Thanksgiving Ode 100, 100--1, 102 'There is a little unpretending Rill'

17 Tintem Abbey, Lines composed a

few miles above 16, 33, 104, 126

Thomson's 'Castle oflndolence', Stanzas written in 47

TheThom 31 The Three Graves 25 The Triad 143 To-- ('Like a shipwreck'd Sailor

tost') 164 Toussaint l'Ouverture, To 50 The Tuft of Primroses 71

Vaudracour and Julia 13, 111

The Waggoner 44, 65, 66, 86, 109 'W ansfell! this Household has a

favoured lot' 200 We are Seven 16, 27 Wellington, On a Portrait of, by

Haydon 193 Westminster Bridge, Composed

upon 49,159

The Westmoreland Girl 209 Westmorland freeholders,

addresses to 106 'What heavenly smiles!' 131 'Where lies the truth?' 211 'While not a leaf seems faded' 99 'A whirl-blast from behind the

hill' 30 The White Doe of Rylstone 44, 64,

71, 72, 73, 74, 96, 97, 98 'Why art thou silent!' 152 'Why should we weep or mourn,

Angelic boy' 211 The Wishing-Gate 143 The Wishing-Gate Destroyed 196 Worcester Cathedral, A

Gravestone in 143

Yarrow Revisited 160 Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems

168, 170 Yarrow Unvisited 54, 60 Yarrow Visited 94 'Yes, it was the mountain Echo'

66 Yew-trees 59