[Footnote W:  Yewdale, Duddondale, Eskdale, Wastdale, Ennerdale.—­Ed.]

[Footnote X:  Compare the sonnet in “Yarrow Revisited,” etc., No.  XI., ’Suggested at Tyndrum in a Storm’.—­Ed.]

[Footnote Y:  See book vi. l. 485 and note [Footnote Z, below].—­Ed.]

[Footnote Z:  Corin=Corydon? the shepherd referred to in the pastorals of Virgil and Theocritus.  Phyllis, see Virgil, ‘Eclogue’ x. 37, 41.—­Ed.]

[Footnote a:  While living in Anne Tyson’s Cottage at Hawkshead.—­Ed.]

[Footnote b:  Compare ‘Tintern Abbey’, vol. ii. p. 54: 

       ’Nature then,
  To me was all in all, etc.’

Ed.]

[Footnote c:  He spent his twenty-second summer at Blois, in France.—­Ed.]

[Footnote d:  Compare ‘Hart-Leap Well’, vol. ii. p. 128, and ’The Green Linnet’, vol. ii. p. 367.—­Ed.]

[Footnote e:  The ‘Evening Walk’, and ‘Descriptive Sketches’, published 1793.  See especially the original text of the latter, in the appendix to vol. 1. p. 309.—­Ed.]TWO FOOTNOTES

[Footnote f:  It is difficult to say where this “smooth rock wet with constant springs” and the “copse-clad bank” were.  There is no copse-clad bank fronting Anne Tyson’s cottage at Hawkshead.  It may have been a rock on the wooded slope of the rounded hill that rises west of Cowper Ground, north-west of Hawkshead.  A rock “wet with springs” existed there, till it was quarried for road-metal a few years since.  But it is quite possible that the cottage referred to is Dove Cottage, Grasmere.  In that case the “rock” and “copse-clad bank” may have been on Loughrigg, or more probably on Silver How.  The “summer sun” goes down behind Silver How, so that it might smite a wet rock either on Hammar Scar or on the wooded crags above Red Bank.  These could be seen from the window of one of the rooms of Dove Cottage.  Seated beside the hearth of the “half-kitchen and half-parlour fire” in that cottage, and looking along the passage through the low door, the eye would rest on Hammar Scar, the wooded hill behind Allan Bank.  The context of the poem points to Hawkshead; but the details of the description suggest the Grasmere cottage rather than Anne Tyson’s.—­Ed.]

[Footnote g:  See the distinction drawn by Wordsworth between Fancy and Imagination in the Preface to “Lyrical Ballads” (1800 and subsequent editions), and embodied in his classification of the Poems.—­Ed.]

[Footnote h:  Westmoreland.—­Ed.]

[Footnote i:  See note [Footnote a], book ii. l. 451.—­Ed.]

[Footnote k:  Coniston lake; see note [Footnote m below] on the following page.—­Ed.]

[Footnote m:  The eight lines which follow are a recast, in the blank verse of ‘The Prelude’, of the youthful lines entitled ’Extract from the Conclusion of a Poem, composed in Anticipation of leaving School’.  These were composed in Wordsworth’s sixteenth year.  As the contrast is striking, the earlier lines may be transcribed: