(a) Of the Principles of Poetry and the ’Lyrical Ballads.’

P. 85.  Verse-quotation.  From Gray’s Poems, ’Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West.’

P. 99, l. 30.  Sir Joshua Reynolds.  For Wordsworth’s critical verdict on his literary work as well as his painting, see Letters in present volume, pp. 153-157, et alibi.

(c) Poetry as a study.

P. 112, ll. 6-7.  Quotation from Spenser, ‘Fairy Queen,’ b.i.c.i. st. 9, l. 1.

P. 113, footnote.  Hakewill.  The work intended is ’An Apologie or Declaration of the Power and Providence of God in the Government of the World.’  Oxford, 1627 (folio), and later editions.  He was George Hakewill, D.D., Archdeacon of Surrey.  Died 1649.

P. 115, ll. 36-7. ’1623 to 1664 ... only two editions of the Works of Shakspeare.’  The second folio of 1632 and that of 1663 (same as 1664) are here forgotten, and also the abundant separate reprints of the separate Plays and Poems.

P. 123, l. 6.  Mr. Malcom Laing, a historian of Scotland ’from the Union of the Crowns to the Union of the Kingdoms in the Reign of Queen Anne’ (4th edition, 1819, 4 vols.), who, in an exhaustive and drastic style, disposed of the notorious ‘Ossian’ fictions of Macpherson.

P. 130, ll. 12-14.  Verse-quotation.  From the ‘Prelude.’

(d) Of Poetry as Observation and Description.

P. 134, ll. 3-4 (at bottom).  Verse-quotation.  From ‘A Poet’s Epitaph’
(VIII.  ’Poems of Sentiment and Reflection’).

P. 136, ll. 7-8.  Verse-quotation.  From Shakspeare, ‘Lear,’ iv. 6.

P. 136, ll. 17-24.  Verse-quotation.  From Milton, ‘Paradise Lost,’ book ii. ll. 636-43.

P. 139, ll. 10-11.  Verse-quotation.  Ibid. book vi. ll. 767-8.

P. 140, ll. 10-11.  Verse-quotation.  From Shakspeare, ‘Lear,’ iii. 2.

P. 141, ll. 1-2.  Verse-quotation.  Ibid.  ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ i. 4.

P. 142, ll. 7-8. 12-13.  Verse-quotation.  From Milton, ‘Paradise Lost,’ book ix. 1002-3.

P. 143.  Long verse-quotation.  Charles Cotton, the associate ‘Angler’ of Walton ‘for all time,’ and of whom, as a Poet, Abp.  Trench, in his ‘Household Book of English Poetry,’ has recently spoken highly yet measuredly.

P. 152, footnote *. Various Readings. (1) ‘Sonnet composed at—.’  Such is the current heading of this Sonnet in the Poems (Rossetti, p. 177).  In the MS. it runs, ’Written at Needpath (near Peebles), Mansion of the Duke of Queensbury’ (sic); and thus opens: 

    ’Now, as I live, I pity that great lord! 
    Whom pure despite of heart,’ &c.;

instead of,

    ’Degenerate Douglas! oh, the unworthy lord! 
    Whom mere,’ &c.

(2) To the Men of Kent, October 1803.  In l. 3, the MS. reads: 

    ’Her haughty forehead ‘gainst the coast of France,’

for ‘brow against.’  Line 7, ‘can’ for ‘may.’ (3) ‘Anticipation,’ October 1803.  Line 12 in MS. reads: