21. Ecclesiastical Sketches. 8vo. 1822. 22. A Description of the Scenery of the Lakes [first separate edition]. 12mo. 1822. 4th ed., 1823. 5th ed., 1835. 23. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, in five volumes. 12mo. 1827. [The Excursion" now first included in a collected edition.] 24. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Paris, Galignani. 8vo. 1828. 25. Selections from the Poems of William Wordsworth, Esq. Chiefly for the use of schools and young persons. 12mo. 1831. 2d ed., 1834. 26. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, in four volumes. 27. Lines written after the death of Charles Lamb. 8vo. [No title or date; privately printed 1835 or 1836.] 28. Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems. 12mo. 1835. 2d ed., 1836. 3d ed., 1839. 30. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, in six volumes. 8vo. 1836-1837. [First stereotyped edition; reprinted 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1846, 1849.] 31. The Sonnets of William Wordsworth. 8vo. 1838. 32. Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years. 8vo. 1842. [Added also as a seventh volume to the collected edition of Poetical Works.] 33. Select Pieces from the Poems of William Wordsworth. I 2mo. 1843. 34. Lines on Grace Darling. I 2mo. [No date, privately printed, 1843.] 35. Kendal and Windermere Railway. Two letters. 12mo. 1844 or early in 1845. 36. The Poems of William Wordsworth [one volume edition]. Royal 37. Ode, performed in the Senate-House, Cambridge. 4to. Cambridge, 1847. [Also published as "Ode. On the Installation of His Royal Highness Prince Albert as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge." London, no date, but doubtless 1847.] 38. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, in six volumes. 12mo. 1849-1850. 39. The Prelude. 8vo. 1850. [Posthumous publication.] 40. The Recluse. Part First, Book First. 8vo. 1888. Of recent editions that by Professor Knight and my own edition in Bell's "Aldine Edition of the British Poets" are the most important. Wordsworth's Prose Works were collected in three volumes by Dr. Grosart in 1876. The standard biographies of Wordsworth are (1) that by his nephew Christopher Wordsworth, (2) that by Professor Knight. Of short lives the best is that of Mr. Myers in the "English Men of Letters" series. There are several volumes of Selections, including those by Henry Reed, Matthew Arnold, F. T. Palgrave, Professor Knight, and other members of the Wordsworth Society, C. K. Shorter, W. J. Rolfe, A. J. George. Mr. George has also edited "The Prelude " and " Wordsworth's Prefaces and Essays on Poetry." For criticism see Coleridge's "Biographia Literaria," Henry Taylor's "Notes from Books," John Wilson's "Essays, Critical, etc.,” De Quincey's Recollections of Wordsworth" and "Wordsworth's Poetry," G. Brimley's "Essays," Lowell's Among my Books," David Masson's Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, etc.," J. C. Shairp's "Studies in Poetry and Philosophy" and "Aspects of Poetry," Leslie Stephen's" Hours in a Library, Third Series," R. H. Hutton's "Essays, Theological and Literary," Stopford Brooke's "Theology in the English Poets," E. Dowden's Studies in Literature" and "Transcripts and Studies," Matthew Arnold's Preface to his volume of Selections, W. Bagehot's 'Literary Studies,” Dean Church's "Dante and Other Essays," H. N. Hudson's "Studies in Wordsworth," A. de Vere's "Essays, Chiefly on Poetry," La Jeunesse de William Wordsworth," by Émile Legouis. Of these the most useful as an introduction to Wordsworth is the essay in Shairp's "Studies in Poetry and Philosophy." I may mention here my own reprint of the first edition of "Lyrical Ballads,” which has appeared in two editions. If thou indeed derive thy light from Heaven, And they that from the zenith dart their beams, (Visible though they be to half the earth, Though half a sphere be conscious of their brightness) Are yet of no diviner origin, No purer essence, than the one that burns, Like an untended watch-fire on the ridge Of some dark mountain; or than those which seem |