P. 326.  Verse-quotation at close.  From close of ‘Ode to Duty’ (xix.  ’Poems of Sentiment and Reflection’).

P. 353, ll. 7-8.  Verse-quotation.  Whence?  It sounds familiarly.

P. 353, ll. 20-25.  From Milton, ‘Sonnet xiv.’

P. 356, ll. 16-24.  Verse-quotation.  From Burns’ ’Cottar’s Saturday Night.’  It may be noted here that the ’saint, the father, and the husband’ of this imperishable celebration of lowly Scottish godliness was William Burns (or Burness), father of the Poet; and whilst this note is being written a copy of a most interesting MS. (about to be published) by William Burness, prepared by him for his children, reaches me.  It is entitled, ’Manual of Religious Belief, by William Burness, in the form of a Dialogue between a Father and his Son.’  G.

THE PROSE WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.

FOR THE FIRST TIME COLLECTED,

WITH ADDITIONS FROM UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS.

Edited, with Preface, Notes and Illustrations,

BY THE REV.  ALEXANDER B. GROSART, ST. GEORGE’S, BLACKBURN, LANCASHIRE.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL.  II.

AESTHETICAL AND LITERARY.

LONDON:  EDWARD MOXON, SON, AND CO. 1 AMEN CORNER, PATERNOSTER ROW.

1876.

AMS Press, Inc.  New York 10003 1967 Manufactured in the United States of America

CONTENTS OF VOL.  II.

*** A star [*] designates publication herein for the first time G.

AESTHETICAL AND LITERARY.

I. Of Literary Biography and Monuments: 
(a) A Letter to a Friend of Robert Burns, 1816
(b) Letter to a Friend on Monuments to Literary Men,
1819
(c) Letter to John Peace, Esq., of Bristol, 1844
II.  Upon Epitaphs: 
(a) From ‘The Friend’
(_b_) From the Author’s MSS.: 
The Country Church-yard, and critical Examination
of Ancient Epitaphs
(c) From the Author’s MSS.: 
Celebrated Epitaphs considered
III.  Essays, Letters, and Notes, elucidatory and confirmatory of
the Poems, 1798-1835: 
(a) Of the Principles of Poetry and the ‘Lyrical Ballads,’
1798-1802
(b) Of Poetic Diction
(c) Poetry as a Study, 1815
(d) Of Poetry as Observation and Description, and Dedication
of 1815
(e) Of ‘The Excursion:’  Preface
(_f_) Letters to Sir George and Lady Beaumont and others,
on the Poems and related Subjects[1]
(_g_) Letter to Charles Fox with the ‘Lyrical Ballads,’
and his Answer, &c.
(_h_) Letter on the Principles of Poetry and his own Poems
to (afterwards) Professor John Wilson
IV.  Descriptive: 
(_a_) A Guide through the District of the Lakes, 1835
(_b_) Kendal and Windermere Railway:  two Letters reprinted
from the _Morning Post_.  Revised, with
Additions, 1844
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS