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Persons of Importance in Wordsworth's Life

(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 , 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 , he was educated at St Paul's School and StJohn's, Cambridge. The subject of his prize• wining 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

223 224 A Wordsworth Chronology travelling in 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 , he failed to keep discipline; more self-disciplined in temporary posts at Persons of Importance in Wordsworth's Life 225

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 . F was educated at Bishop Auckland, , 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 226 A Wordsworth Chronology acquainted with W. In 1845, three years after being appointed rector of Elton, Huntingdonshire, he abjured Protestantism and was received into the . 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 . 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 Persons of Importance in Wordsworth's Life 227 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 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 228 A Wordsworth Chronology 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. Persons of Importance in Wordsworth's Life 229

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 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 . 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. 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.)

Henry Crabb Robinson (1775-1867) was born at Bury St Edmunds; 230 A Wordsworth Chronology 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 num• ber 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 Persons of Importance in Wordsworth's Life 231

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 , 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 . 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 232 A Wordsworth Chronology 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. Persons of Importance in Wordsworth's Life 233

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 , 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 (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 , 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 (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, , 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: 236 A Wordsworth Chronology

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 Baudouin, Caroline 100, 103, 104, Adelaide, Queen 192, 193 116, 171, 179 Aders, Charles 124, 144 Beaumont, Sir George and Lady Aira Force 37, 58, 172 51, 55, 57, 58, 62, 63, 65, 66, Albert, Prince 214 67, 68, 69, 72, 73, 80, 84, 90, Alfoxden 26ff, 66, 177, 195, 196 93,96, 97,97--8,112,124,130, 60--1, 71, 72, 73, 74-Sff 132, 139, 149, 180, 187, 223, Allston, Washington 85-6, 86, 227 109, 203 at Coleorton 68, 80, 105, 117, Alsager, Mr 105 123-4, 127, 130, 134, 138, Arnbleside 38, 40, 55, 63, 76, 88, 141 89, 91, 96--7, 109, 122, 169, 208 at Dunmow 56, 73 HCR at 101, 119, 199-200 at Grasmere 71 IF at 186, 187, 192, 211 at Keswick 51, 71, 98, 102, 107 Q and Dora at 198, 201, 207, in London 66, 85, 86, 128 210 at RMt 98, 102, 107, 137 Anderson, Dr Robert 44, 94 Sir George's pictures 59, 66, 73, Appleby 77, 83, 88, 90, 99, 106--7, 97, 98, 139, 192; (collected) 117, 137, 155 141, 233 Applethwaite 51, 55, 57, 59 Beaupuy, Michel 13 Ariosto 50 Bell, Dr Andrew 84, 86, 88, 89, Arnold, Dr and Mrs 161, 162, 163, 108, 109, 146, 159, 211-12 168, 169, 187, 189 Birmingham 32, 65, 80, 85, 9&-9, at Rugby 168, 179, 189 123-4, 141-2, 171, 184, 194, Dr Thomas 163, 173, 177, 187, 203 199,206 Binfield 66, 81 Mrs Mary 204, 206, 208, 212, Blackwood's Magazine 109, 152, 215 201, 228, 233 daughters 209 Blair, Alexander 80, 142 Matthew, son 220 Blake, William 87 Austrian lakes 181 Blakeney, Mr 91, 95, 118, 123 Blakesley, J. W. 162, 176 Bligh, Capt. (of The Bounty) 23 Bailey, Benjamin 161 Blois 13-14, 15 Baillie, Joanna 87, 157 Blomfield, C. J. 88, 140, 142, 144, Barker, Miss 92, 107--8, 110, 116 148, 157, 195, 198, 218 Barker, Mrs (W's cousin) 18 Bolton Abbey 71, 101, 125 Barrett, Elizabeth 176, 186, 200, Bolton, John 134 (Storrs Hall), 142, 206, 227 152, 155, 174 Bartholomew, John 26, 29 Bonaparte, Napoleon 47, 51, 69, Barton 36 79, 92-3, 96--7, 100, 113, 115, Bassenthwaite 17, 37, 39, 163 139, 140, 180 Bath 16, 188, 194-5, 214 Bootie 83-4

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Borrowdale 37, 88, 107-8, 152, 117, 143, 156, 156-7, 167-8, 153, 200-1 171, 207, 214; see StJohn's and Bowles, W. L. 8, 86, 188 Trinity Bowness 37, 106, 146, 169, 174, Canning, George 116, 134, 140 206,209 Canterbury 8, 182 Boxall, William 158 Archbishop of see Howley Branthwaite 5, 18, 59 40, 52, 93, 158, 160, 165, Brathay 40, 68, 72, 99, 100, 162 167, 199, 200, 203, 204, 205, Bremen 146, 148, 155 214, 217, 219 Brigham 162, 164, 177, 190, 193, Carlyle, Thomas 16-17 197, 202, 205, 207, 210, 215, Carrick, Thomas 216 217, 218, 219 Carruthers, Richard 103, 105 Brighton 12, 158, 213, 214, 215, Carter, John 91, 122, 132, 194, 217 199, 209 Brinsop Court 130, 131, 134, 136, Cartmel 4, 18, 128, 133 138, 140, 141, 142, 145, 151, Cary, H. F. 124, 176 166, 172, 182, 188, 193, 194, Catullus 181 203,210 Chantrey, (Sir) Francis 112, 116- Brisco 216, 217 17, 119, 121, 127, 135 (Scott's Bristol 16, 21, 22, 24, 27, 28, 32, bust), 210 33, 72, 93, 143, 186, 195 Chantrey, Lady 175 Broad How 64, 66, 67-8, 135, 166 Chatham 182, 183, 189 Broadstairs 182 Chatsworth 156 Brougham, Henry 105, 106, 107, Chaucer, Geoffrey 44, 50, 190, 108, 111, 136 191-2 Brougham Castle 6, 69 Cheddar Gorge 32 Brougham Hall 58, 62, 64, 65 Chepstow 16, 33, 195 Broughton-in-Fumess 7, 18 Chester, John 30, 34 Browning, Robert 176, 227 Chiabrera, Gabriello 79, 172, 180 Bryant, W. C. 209 Christian, Edward and Fletcher 23 Bucdeuch, Duke of 193 Cintra, Convention of 75, 76, 125 Bunsen, Baron ('Chevalier') 189 Clarkson, Thomas and Catherine Burger, Gottfried 34 45, 48, 55, 58, 61, 70, 72, 76, Bums, Robert 52, 87, 100, 106, 83, 95, 99, 104, 168, 185-6, 213, 109, 165, 205, 206 221-2,223-4 Bury St Edmunds see Clarkson at 40, 43, 44 37, 101, 137, 192 at Eusemere 37, 42, 44, 45, 46- Buxted 158, 230; see Wordsworth, 7, 48, 51, 126 Christopher (brother) visiting the Lake District 62-3, Byron, Lord 87, 94, 111, 126, 128 71, 78, 121 at Bury St Edmunds 70, 75, 81, Calais 8, 10, 49, 112, 179 98 Calder Abbey 101, 103, 192 Playford Hall 103, 105, 117, 128, Calgarth Park 15, 155 222 Calvert, Raisley 18-19 Clarkson, Thomas (son) 78, 179 legacy toW 18, 19, 21, 31, 33 1-2, 3-4, 37, 71, Calvert, William 16, 17, 18, 45, 46, 101, 175, 177, 217 76, 107, 125, 147 Coleorton Hall 65, 84, 86, 156, Cambridge 5-8, 10, 11-12, 81, 195-6, 223; see Beaumont General Index 239

Coleorton Farm 63, 67, 68 Collins, William (painter) 107 Coleridge, Berkeley (son) 32 Collins, William (poet) 145, 146 Coleridge, Derwent (son) 40, 56, Colthouse 4, 6, 7, 7--8 58, 64, 69, 72, 76, 85, 117, 153, Como, Lake 9, 114-15, 181 163, 210, 219, 224, 225 Coniston 3, 122 Coleridge, Edward (nephew) 127 5, 110, 125, 153, Coleridge, Hartley (son) 23, 43, 192 58, 69, 70, 155, 169, 183--4, 190, Constable, John 68, 176 218, 219, 224-5, 229 Cookson, Ann see Wordsworth, at school 76, 85, 91, 93 Ann at Oxford 96, 97, 224 Cookson, Christopher (Uncle Kit) teaching 121, 123, 125, 134, 184 5, 8, 13; see Crackanthorpe at theWs' 43, 72, 76, 128, 183, Cookson, Elizabeth (daughter of 217 Mrs C. of ) 188 drunkenness 136, 149, 152, 153, Cookson, Mrs (of Kendal) 91, 156, 173 103 Coleridge, Henry Nelson Cookson, Revd William (W' s (nephew) 155, 169 uncle) 5, 6, 12, 15, 23, 49, 66, Coleridge, (Sir) John Taylor 85, 105, 189 (nephew) 105, 177, 183, 203 Cottle, Joseph 21, 22, 28, 30, 31, Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 21-57 31-2,32,33,34,36, 143,150 passim, 97--8, 104, 124, 127, The Courier 76, 77, 231-2 157, 168, 169, 229 Coventry 171 Mediterranean period 59--67 Cowper, William 194 passim Coxe, William 8, 10 return 67--8, 68ff Crabbe, George 76 London lectures 72, 73, 86, 87 his son 175 at Allan Bank 75--80 passim Crackanthorpe, Christopher 36, quarrel with W 81, 83, 85-7, 90 38 Rhineland tour with W and his wife 17 Dora 144 Crosthwaite, Samuel 166 poems: The Ancient Mariner Crowcombe 31 27, 30, 36; 30, Cruikshank, Mr and Mrs 29, 30 40; Dejection: An Ode 46, 37, 101 47; 25; Crump, Mr (and his family) 60, Hexameters 34; This Lime• 71, 78, 83, 94, 127, 129, 154 tree Bower 26; The Cunningham, Allan 121, 127, 135, Wanderings of Cain 27; 142, 168 William Wordsworth, To Curwen, Clara 216 69-70,97 Curwen, John 154, 182, 202 23, 104 Curwen, Isabella 154, 155; see The Friend 76--80 passim, 229 Wordsworth, Isabella 25-6, 30 Coleridge, Mrs (Sara) 24, 26, 42, 50, 58, 59, 61, 65, 68, 72, 109, Darwin, Erasmus 30, 32 132, 148, 153, 156, 179, 210 Davy, (Sir) Humphry 38, 39, 58, Coleridge, Sara (daughter) 50, 58, 63,86, 159,163,225 76, 88, 107, 109, 125, 132, 143, Davy, Dr John 159, 182, 183, 189, 148, 150, 156, 179, 183, 191, 224 202, 204, 208 240 General Index

Dawes, Revd John 76, 81 (his Emerson, Ralph Waldo 166 school), 85, 91, 97, 99-100, 121, Ennerdale 37, 59, 71, 101, 192 123, 125, 225-6 Eskdale (Lake District) 76, 192 De Quincey, Thomas 56, 66, 72, Eskdale (Scotland) 93 75, 76, 77, 89, 94, 95, 96, 99, Esthwaite 3, 4, 72 103,125,149,228 Eton College 176 Dove Cottage 77, 78, 79, 82, 92, Eusemere 57, 64, 71, 75, 88, 104; 95, 101 see Clarkson The Westmorland Gazette 107, 110 Fox Ghyll 118, 123, 128 Faber, F. W. 189, 200, 201, 207, Donne, John 164 225-6 Dora's Field 135, 136, 138, 153, Fawcett, Joseph 15 206 Fenwick, Isabella 171, 174, 179, Douglas, Charles 22, 23, 38 188, 189, 196, 199, 202, 203, Douglas, Harriet 140, 154, 158 208, 213, 216, 217 Dove Cottage 37ff, 49ff, 62, 67; see at or near RMt 159, 186, 187, DeQuincey 190, 192, 197, 200-5 passim, Dovedale (Derbys.) 6, 7, 8, 80 209, 211, 215, 219 Dover 8, 49, 112, 116, 124, 183 in London 171, 179, 182, 191, Dowling, Ann 106, 107, 120, 125, 194,206,221-2 165 in the south of England 183, Dowling, Jane 126 191, 206, 219 Dryden, John 64, 73, 75, 127 at Bath 188, 195, 214, 216 Duddon, river and valley 3, 59, Durham and Northumberland 76, 84, 117, 149, 153, 186, 192 185, 193, 204 Duppa, Richard 59, 60 her Wordsworth notes 201, Durham 185 216-17,236 Dyce, Alexander 145, 146, 151, Fermor, Mrs 130, 131 153,164,204 Field, Barron 145, 191 Dyer, George 59 Fisher, Canon 189, 195 Dyer, James 143 Fisher, Emmeline 195-6,210 Dyer, John 84, 146 Fleming, John 4, 107, 169 Fleming, Lady 89-90, 121, 123, Eamont, river 6, 45, 64 135,206-7 The Earl of Abergavenny 8, 11, 24, Fletcher, Miss 98, 106 36, 40, 61, 62 Fletcher, Mrs 208, 220 Easedale 72, 73, 137, 208 Flimby 205,206 Eden, valley and river 117, 165 Fomcett 6, 7, 10, 12, 15, 16 Edgeworth, Maria 51 Fox, Charles James 41-2, 43, 66, Edinburgh 53, 54, 56, 94, 99, 102, 68, 186 122, 123 Fox Ghyll 125, 131, 133, 137, 163, Edridge, Henry 59, 66 168; see De Quincey Elleray 75, 79, 82, 95, 99, 134, 149, Fox How 163, 168, 169, 173, 177, 173,233 187,220 Elliott, Ebenezer 174 Foxley see Price Elton (Hunts.) 207, 226 France 8-9, 12-14, 15, 16-17, 18, Elton (near Stockton-on-Tees) 20,45, 116,179-80 202,203 Abbey 4, 103, 192, 209 General Index 241

Galignani, edition of W's poems Graves, Revd R. P. 169, 177, 206 146 Gray, Thomas 145, 174, 185 Gallow Hill 39, 42, 46, 48, 49, 55 Green, Sally 72, 73 Gardner, Dr John 161, 162, 169 death of her parents 73, 74 Gaskell, Mrs Elizabeth 191, 192, orphan fund 73, 74, 76, 90 220 Greenhead Gill 40-1, 56 Gee, Mr and Mrs George 107, Greenwood, Robert 3, 171 108, 110, 117, 120, 126, 141, Greta Hall: Coleridge 38, 39, 47, 143, 168, 180, 194 50, 55, 70, 75 Germany 10, 30, 32-3, 33-5, 113, Scott a guest 63, 134 144, 155, 156, 181; see Bremen the Southeys 55, 58, 76, 88, 94, and Heidelberg 130, 134, 137, 147, 152, 162, Gifford, William 96, 164 169, 183, 190, 192, 202, 219 Gill, Joseph 24 Greystoke 16, 19 Gillies, Margaret 190 Grisedale Pass and Tarn 37, 40, Gillies, R. P. 94, 95, 96, 104 45, 57, 62, 67 Gilpin, William 8, 16, 22, 33 Gladstone, W. E. 176, 184, 185, 198, 199, 200, 205, 207 Hacket 82, 83-4, 88, 107 Glasgow 43, 52, 93, 160 Halifax 2, 5, 17, 20, 70, 103, 149, University of 186, 213 150 Glenalmond School 212, 221 Hallam, Arthur 157, 166 Goddard, F. W. 114, 149 Hallam, Henry 124, 176, 214 Godwin, William 15, 20, 22, 23, Hallsteads 99, 103, 104, 107, 126, 28, 31, 66, 98, 100, 226 134, 150, 152, 160, 163, 166, Goldsmith, Oliver 151 169, 172, 177, 200, 201, 203, Gondo, the gorge 9, 115 204,218 Goodrich Castle 16, 33 Hamilton, Thomas 165, 168, 173 Gordale Scar 39, 71, 87 Hamilton, (Sir) William Rowan Gordon, George Huntly 146, 148, 141, 149, 150, 151, 155, 174, 149,226 183,186,206,212 Gorsas 16-17 Hampstead 87, 112, 156, 157, 171, Goslar 34-5 177, 179, 194, 199, 209, 212, Gough, Charles 63 214 Grande Chartreuse, the 9, 10, 13 Hampton Court 143, 195 Graham, Mr (companion in N. Hancock, Robert 32 Italy) 135-6 Harden, John 68 Grahame, Robert 45-6, 67, 93 his daughter 120 Grasmere, the lake 39, 40, 45, 51, Hare, Augustus 123, 127, 129 60,118 Hare, Julius 140, 162, 163, 171, Town End 152, 153; see Dove 176, 185, 206 Cottage Harrogate 118, 124-5, 134, 140 the parsonage 83, 89 Harrow School 184; see the Vale of 4, 60, 71 Wordsworth, Christopher (son the village 18, 37, 62-3, 67, 71, ofCW) 152, 172, 219, 221 11, 13, 25 the Wishing-Gate 43, 196, 206-7 Haweswater 37, 121, 126 Grattan, Thomas Colley 144, 157- 3-5 passim, 37, 43, 68, 8 125, 148, 212; see Colthouse 242 General Index

Haydon, B. R. 98, 99, 102-3, 104-5, 122, 137, 142, 144, 145, 152, 108, 111, 117, 158, 159, 193, 153,154,180,190,202,203 199,212,223,224,226-7 Hutchinson, John (brother) 64, Hazlitt, William 32, 51, 55, 55--6, 72, 101, 118, 122, 165, 166 74, 98, 106, 111, 120 Hutchinson, Margaret (sister) 20, Heidelberg 113, 156, 181 22 37, 40, 42, 43, 63, 103, Hutchinson, Mary 2, 4, 6, 7, 20, 163, 193 24, 25, 26, 35, 37, 38, 38-9, Hemans, Mrs Felicia 154-5, 167, 42-8 passim; see Wordsworth, 169, 173 Mary Hendon 126, 127, 143, 168, 194 Hutchinson, Mary (nee Hereford 77, 130, 143, 203 Monkhouse; wife of Thomas, Hindwell 77, 80, 81, 85, 87, 94, 95, MW's brother) 109, 110, 133, 121, 130, 131 134, 171, 196, 201, 219, 221 Hine, Joseph 159 Hutchinson, Mary (daughter of Hoare, Mrs 112, 157, 158, 168, Thomas) 165 171, 179, 182, 191, 194, 199, Hutchinson, Sara (sister of MW) 209, 212, 214 7, 37, 41-50 passim, 58, 59, 61, Hobart, J. H. 129 65,67,68,69,70,71,74-80 Hogg, James 94, 172-3 passim, 84, 87, 88, 89, 91, 92, Holford 29, 30 93, 97, 98, 99, 101, 103, 104, Holland 124, 144 109, 110, 118, 122, 123, 124, Holland, Lord and Lady 71, 74, 126, 127, 130, 130-1, 133, 134, 175 140, 145, 151, 165, 166, 168, Hook, Mrs James 168, 172, 179, 169, 171-2 182 Hutchinson, Sarah (daughter of Howley, William 110, 132; Thomas) 1%, 221 (Archbishop of Canterbury) Hutchinson, Thomas (brother of 157, 167, 176, 182, 187, 198, MW) 7, 35, 38-9, 43, 45, 55, 231 67, 77, 87, 88, 110, 121, 134, Howitt, William and Mary 140, 179, 182, 193, 203, 219, 220 158, 166 Hutchinson, Thomas (son of the Hunt, Leigh 98 above) 155,168,171,220 Hunter, Joseph 160 Hutton, Thomas 101, 102, 103 Hurst and Robinson 133, 134, 136 Hymers, John 161 Hutchinson, Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas) 173, 221 Hutchinson, George (brother of Ingleton 3, 39, 71 MW) 35, 37, 45, 46, 60, 65, Inglis, Sir Robert 133, 176 78 Ings Chapel 4, 49 Hutchinson, George (son of Inman, Henry 206 Thomas) 168, 219 Iona 165 Hutchinson, Henry (brother of 78, 118, 131, 148, 15(}-1 MW) 24, 74, 84, 137, 142, 144, Isola, Agostino 7 152, 153, 166 Isola, Emma 166 Hutchinson, Henry (uncle) 19, 72, Italy 9, 114-15, 180 82 Ivy Cottage 100, 107, 108, 120, Hutchinson, Joanna (sister) 55, 122, 125, 138, 140, 165 65, 67, 71, 72, 77, 82, 88, 103, Ivy How 107, 108, 163 General Index 243

Jedburgh 54 Lambeth Palace 176 Jeffrey, Francis 56, 72, 95-6, 145, Landor, Walter Savage 119, 126, 158 130, 162, 175, 179, 201 Jerdan, William 144-5, 145 Langhorne, John 178 Jewsbury, Maria 132, 133, 135, Langdale Pikes 99, 138, 206 145, 149, 156, 227 Leamington 138, 168, 172, 178, Johnson, Joseph 14, 35 179,207 Johnson, Revd William 83, 84, 86, Lee Priory 121 (Kent), 123, 109, 110, 118, 128, 175, 182, 220 128, 130 Jones, Robert 8--10, 11, 16, 40, Leeds 71, 128, 177, 210 112, 122, 129--30, 147, 149, 160, Le Grice, Charles Valentine 196 166, 171 Levens 71, 152, 200, 207 Jonson, Ben 54 Lewis, 'Monk' 32 Lewthwaite, Hannah 67 Keats, John 102--6 passim, 111, Lichfield 70, 133 180, 199 Liswyn Farm 33 Keble, John 123, 124, 189, 200 60, 82, 89, 94, 127, 138, The Keepsake 137, 142, 143, 146, 162, 182; see Crump 147, 149 Liverpool, Lord 89, 158, 176 Kendal 6, 17, 37-8, 56, 68, 71, 78, Llandaff, Bishop of see Watson, 79, 91, 94, 97, 103, 105, 106, Richard 172, 207, 208 Lloyd, Charles 27, 31-2, 32, 40, Kennedy, Dr 185 44, 65, 72, 74, 81, 98--9, 100, Kents Bank 133 120, 131, 228 Kenyon, John 116, 117, 118, 127, Lloyd, Priscilla 41; see 137, 139, 143-4, 158, 161, 166-- Wordsworth, Priscilla 7, 175, 176, 185, 186, 189, 199, Lockhart, J. G., Mr and Mrs 134, 227-8 163, 176, 183, 184, 195, 196, Keswick 17, 19, 37, 50, 51, 55, 58, 197, 228, 233 71, 77, 102, 119, 150, 167, 192, London 6, 8, 11, 14, 15, 20, 23, 201-2, 203; see Greta Hall 27-8,33-4,49,66,70,73-4, (which some Keswick 85-7, 97-8, 104-5, 112, 116-17, references must signify) 124, 127-8, 143-4, 157, 158, Kingston, Mr 104, 105, 106 170-1, 175-7, 179, 182, 188--9, 102, 103, 207 195, 198--9, 214 Kirkby Stephen 91 Longinus 132 Kirkstone Pass 47, 50, 60, 99, 122, Longman, Thomas 38, 41, 42, 73, 152, 200 74, 93, 102, 120, 131, 134, 138, Klopstock, Friedrich 34 138--9, 139, 163, 168 Lonsdale, first Earl of see Laing, David and Miss 122, 122-3, Lowther, Sir James 125, 139, 168, 173, 186 Lonsdale, William Lowther, Lamb, Charles 26, 49, 56, 65, 85, second Earl of (cf. p. 71) 48, 96, 104, 109, 124, 136, 145, 165, 50-1, 58, 67-8, 71, 76, 84-5, 89, 170, 173, 196, 199, 232 90, 91, 93, 97, 104, 105, 106, and Mary 49, 66, 73, 81, 86, 97, 108, 119, 126, 127, 131, 133, 105, 116, 124, 128, 143 135, 141, 142, 156, 161, 170, Lambeth 101; see Wordsworth, 175,178,190,198,199,205 Christopher (brother) Lorton 37, 59 244 General Index

Losh, James 14, 20, 30, 32, 33, 40, Martineau, Harriet 203, 208, 211, 43, 119, 119-20 212, 220, 221, 229 138, 141 Massinger, Philip 31-2, 225 Loughrigg Holme see Quillinan Mathews, William 11, 12, 13, 18, Loughrigg Tam 58, 63, 83, 206 19, 20, 21, 22 Louis XVI 14, 15, 116 Mathon 219-20 Low Wood 17, 71, 88, 126 Melrose 54, 94 Lowther (village) 117, 121 Merewether, Revd Francis 142, Lowther Castle 64, 67-8, 71, 91, 143, 146, 166, 174, 183, 196 95,99, 104,106,110,122,125- Michelangelo 60, 124, 226 6, 133, 134, 137, 141, 150, 151- Milan 115, 181 2, 163, 165-6, 169, 170, 172, Mill, J. s. 159 189-90,193,197,206 Millom 1, 3, 117 Lowther, Col. Henry 105, 106, Milnes, Richard Monckton 166, 107, 111, 122, 136, 137, 155, 184 163 Milton, John 3, 82, 84, 93, 98, 104, Lowther, Lady Mary 110; (Lady 173 Bentinck) 134,205 Monkhouse, Jane (wife of Lowther, Lord 105-9 passim, 111, Thomas) 112, 113, 1B-14, 117, 119, 120, 121, 122, 136, 115-16, 121, 126, 127, 135 137, 155, 163 Monkhouse, John 75, 77, 79, 107, Lowther, Sir James 1, 5, 21, 47, 131, 136 (the Stow), 140, 141, 48,59 203, 209, 217 Luff, Mr (Capt.) and Mrs 43, 44, Monkhouse, Mary 59, 75, 77, 88; 47, 49, 57, 64, 67, 75, 84, 99, see Hutchinson, Mary 110, 128, 130, 131, 133, 137, Monkhouse, Mary (daughter of 168 Thomas) 168-9, 201 Lyulph's Tower 57-8, 137, 152, Monkhouse, Thomas 60, 87, 88, 172 91, 97, 104, 107, 110, 112, 113--16, 121, 124, 125, 127, 130--2 Mackenzie, Mrs 180, 192 Montagu, Algernon (Basil's son) Mackereth, George 67, 69 81, 83 Malham Cove 71, 87 Montagu, Basil 20--5 passim, 27, Malta 57, 59, 61, 66, 231 28, 31, 36, 43, 45, 59, 66, 70, Malvern 142, 219, 219-20 81, 83, 85, 90, 91-2, 92, 101, Man, Isle of 137, 142, 144, 150, 137, 149, 169 151, 152, 153, 165, 167 Montagu, Basil (junior) 20, 22, 24, Manchester 80, 81-2, 99, 133, 145, 26, 27, 29, 33, 91-2, 92 148, 156, 171, 177 Monteagle, Lord 199, 205; see Marsh, Peggy 66 Spring-Rice Marshall, Jane (nee Pollard, q.v.) Monteagle, Lady 205, 215 and John 20, 21, 22, 24, 40, Montgomery, James 127 71, 72, 88, 94-5, 101, 135, 150, Montgomery, Robert 170 151, 162, 176, 177, 188, 195, Moore, Thomas 116, 124, 182 201, 210, 218; see Hallsteads Moresby 2, 150, 153, 159, 162; see Marshall, James (son) 150, 151 Wordsworth, John (son) Marshall, John (son) 162 The Morning Post 39, 50, 207, 208, Marshall, William (son) 150 231 General Index 245

Moxon, Edward 138, 154, 158, Perceval, Spencer 85, 86 165-85 passim, 189-90, 191, Percy, Thomas 34, 72 192, 197, 202, 205, 209, 210, Peterborough 48-9 212, 214, 219 Pickersgill, Henry 161, 162, 163, Murray, John 133, 138, 228 170, 171, 175, 178, 193 Myers, John 5, 117, 118 Piel Castle 18, 66 Myers, Revd Thomas 36, 48 Pinney, Azariah and John 20, 21- 2 Napoleon see Bonaparte Pitt, William 65 Naworth 93 Playford Hall 103, 105, 128, 168, Nelson, Lord 64, 65 224 Nether Stowey 24, 26ff, 177, 195, Plumbland 192, 197, 210, 215 196 Plymouth 195 Netherlands, the 112, 123, 124, Pollard, Jane 5, 11, 16; see 144 Marshall Newbiggin Hall 1, 13, 36, 37, 63, Poole, Thomas 24-31 passim, 35, 218 36, 42, 43, 77, 93, 96, 138, 177, Newcastle 7, 19, 160, 185, 186, 227,229 193, 205 Pope,AJexander 73,120,147,204 Newton, Sir Isaac 4, 81 Porlock (and Lynmouth) 27 Newton, Robert 37, 62--3, 88 Powell, Thomas 190, 191 Nicholson, Samuel 15, 27 Preston 112, 127, 135, 156, 169, Northampton, Marquis of 176, 191 186, 198 Price, Sir Uvedale and Lady Nottingham 70, 158 Caroline 81, 87, 130, 131, 142 (Foxley) Orleans 12-14 passim Princess Regent (Caroline of Otway, Thomas 80 Brunswick) 86 Owen, Robert 52, 93 Oxford 33, 85, %, 97, 112, 123-4, 125, 127, 140, 142, 152, 160, Quillinan, Edward 118, 125, 141, 189 146, 151, 152, 153-4, 161, 164, 192, 201, 203, 204, 205, 213, Paris 9, 12, 14, 116, 179 214, 216, 219, 220, 221; (his Park House 55, 57, 58, 59, 63, 64, first wife) 119, 120, 121 67 at Lee Priory 123, 124, 128 Pasley, Capt. (Col.) 83, 97 in London 143, 148, 158, 175, 1, 3, 43, 50, 62, 63, 64, 176, 199 99, 137, 150 at~t 140,152,161-2,177,190 Peace, John 186, 188, 189, 196, and Dora 179, 183, 184, 187, 197,218 188, 193, 195, 197, 205, 212, Peake, Mary (daughter of W's 213 cousin Richard) 90, 91, 99 at Ambleside 198, 201 Peel, Sir Robert 170, 184, 193, 195, on Belle Isle 202, 206 198,199,200 Portugal 208, 209, 212 (return) Peele Castle see Piel Castle Loughrigg Holme 212-13, 216, Penrith 1-8 passim, 19, 20, 44-5, 217,219 45, 48, 51, 64, 72, 77, 85, 88, Quillinan, Jemima 121, 128, 175, 91, 99, 126, 174, 218, 219 192,212 246 General Index

Quillinan, Rotha 118, 119, 121, Rome 180, 189, 211 128, 158, 162, 168, 175 Rose, Hugh James 146, 147, 157, 179, 187, 230-1 Racedown 20--6, 46, 66, 195 Rossall, Revd Dr (his school) 212, Ramond de Carbonnieres 10 213, 215, 218 Rampside 18 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 10, 24 Rawson, Mr and Mrs (Elizabeth, Rugby 168, 179, 189 nee ) 16, 17, 20, 32, Rush, Sir William 43 33, 88, 103, 126, 149 Rydal 37, 44, 107, 173, 192 Reed, Henry 190-1, 206 Rydal Chapel 123, 221 Reynolds, F. M. 137, 142, 146, Rydal Hall 89, 95 147, 149 89ff Reynolds, J. H. 102, 109 building improvements 121, Reynolds, Sir Joshua 58, 153, 223 150, 151 Richmond, Duchess of 91 Rydal Water 17, 38, 39, 40, 135, Richmond, J. C. 220 139, 152, 153, 192 Rievaulx Abbey 48 Robespierre, Maximilian 14, 18 107-8, 164, 167, 204 Robinson, Henry Crabb 55, 120, StJohn's College, Cambridge 3, 5, 130, 131, 133, 135, 139, 149, 159, 168, 171 153, 164, 166, 168, 171, 178, Salisbury 189, 195 185-6, 187, 197, 199, 200, 201, Salisbury Plain 16 203, 205, 210, 215, 216-17, 219, Satterthwaite, Dr 117, 121, 126, 220,222,229-30 141 in London 73, 81, 85, 86, 97, 98, Schlegal, A. W. 144 104, 106, 112, 116, 124, 139, Scotland 43, 52-5, 93--4, 122, 159- 143, 170, 171, 175, 182, 195, 60, 165, 193 198-9,212 Scott, John 98, 100 in the Lake District 101, 103, Scott, (Sir) Walter 58, 60,:-66, 67, 119, 138, 165, 173, 187, 193-- 73, 75, 87, 118, 123, 133, 135, 4, 197, 199-200, 200-1, 204, 136,154,163,183,226,228 207-8, 211, 214, 216, 218, in Scotland 54-5, 159, 160 219 in the Lake District 63, 134, 163 1820 tour 113--16 in London 70, 98, 143, 195 in Scotland 118, 165 37, 49 1837tour 176-7,177,179-81 Sedbergh School 111, 117, 119, Robinson, John-11 122, 138, 146, 168, 184, 218, Robinson, Mary 37; (and 218-19, 221 Hatfield) 52, 55 Sedgwick, Adam 120, 167, 167-8, Robinson, Mrs (W' s cousin) 118, 172, 199, 205 210 Severn, Joseph 180, 182 Rogers, Samuel 8, 76, 122, 126, Sharp, Richard 43, 60, 62, 74, 85, 131, 132, 139, 141, 154, 155, 88, 111-12, 122, 124, 155, 231 156, 159, 167, 174, 230, 231 Shenstone, William 80, 146, 178 in the Lake District 43, 51, 88, Shrewsbury, Lord 196, 226 137, 169, 193, 206 Shuter, William 31 in London 66, 87, 105, 117, 124, Smith, Charlotte 12 143, 170, 175, 179, 182, 195, Smith, Mary 7, 18 198, 199, 209 Smith, Mrs Proctor 182 General Index 247

Snowdon 11, 57, 136 Taylor, Henry 126, 158, 159, 168, Sockbridge 1, 36, 77, 102, 172, 171, 175, 189, 194, 196, 198, 174, 178; see Wordsworth, 213,222 Richard (brother) Taylor, Revd William 4, 18 Sockburn-on-Tees 7, 19, 20, 35, Tennyson, Alfred 157, 171, 209, 36,37 212 Sotheby, William 57 Thelwall, John 26, 33, 56, 186-7, Southey, Bertha 140, 155, 157 232 Southey, Cuthbert 155 39, 43 Southey, Edith 88, 109, 125, 126, Thomson, James 47, 146 130, 139, 140, 142, 143, 152, Threlkeld 37, 44, 46, 58, 89, 140 167; (Mrs Warter) 180-1, 202 Threlkeld, Elizabeth 2; see Rawson Southey, Kate 194, 202, 209, 213, Threlkeld, Mrs William (E' s sister- 217,219 in-law) 62, 63 Southey, Mrs 21, 55, 169, 183 Ticknor, George 172, 181, 185 Southey, Robert 21; see Greta Tillbrooke, Revd Samuel 78, 88, Hall; 77, 92, 96, 103, 104, 109, 100, 101, 104, 107, 125, 138, 112, 140, 141, 157, 172, 174, 140 187, 201, 203, 224 Tintern Abbey 16, 33, 184, 194-5 visits W 61, 78, 84, 122, 132, 140 Tobin, James 23, 27, 28, 29, 31 in London 143-4, 157, 170 Townshend, Revd C. H. 152,192 publications 22, 125, 139, 165 Trafalgar, battle 64 The Spectator 11, 69, 116 Trinity College, Cambridge 12, Spedding, James 157, 171, 175, 114, 140, 146, 149, 157, 166, 194 171, 196, 214 Spedding, John 17, 39, 76, 163 Trinity Lodge 117, 124, 128, Spenser, Edmund 3, 44, 96 (The 143, 148, 156-7, 168, 171, Faerie Queene), 97 183, 189 Spinoza 27 Tyson, Ann 3--6 passim, 7--8, 37, Spring-Rice, Thomas 175, 176, 53 188; see Monteagle, Lord Staffa 160, 165 1, 3, 37, 45, 47, 60, 64, Stephen, James 175, 178, 184, 217 67, 153, 206; cf. Hallsteads, Stockton-on-Tees 19, 64, 72, 91, Patterdale, Watermillock 101, 110, 118, 122, 165, 202, 80, 125, 153 203 Stoddart, (Sir) John 23, 41, 42, 50, Vallon, Annette 12-14, 15, 21, 45, 67, 74, 159, 231 46, 49, 87, 104, 116; (Caroline) Storrs Hall see Bolton, John 14, 45, 49, 87, 96, 97; see Stowey see Nether Stowey Baudouin Stuart, Daniel 76, 91, 231-2 Victoria, Queen 201, 202, 207, Switzerland 9-10, 113--14, 115, 208-9, 211, 221 133, 181 Sympson, Revd Joseph 39, 40, 71 11, 16, 50, 81, 87--8, 128-30, 148, 149, 150 Talfourd, Thomas Noon 104, 124, Walrnisley, Attwood 214--15 143, 170, 175--6, 181, 183, 184, Walton, Isaac 72-3 185, 187, 188, 198, 199, 206, Wastdale 37, 59, 71, 76, 78, 107, 228,232 162, 192 248 General Index

Watchet 27 Winchilsea, Anne, Countess of Watendlath 39, 63 110, 151, 153 Waterloo, battle 91, 98, 100; Windermere 3, 4, 6, 15, 17, 37, 63, battlefield 112, 144 75,103,122,134, 153;0Belle Watermillock 88, 89, 99 Isle or 'The Island') 154, 155, Watson, Joshua 157, 175, 179 160,202,206,207 Watson, Richard 15, 73, 91; (Mrs) Windsor 49,85, 105,176,195 155 Windy Brow 17, 18, 19,46 Watts, Alaric 130, 133, 133-4, 134. Wollstonecraft, Mary 31, 226 136,139,140,161,227 Woodlands 29, 227 Webster, Daniel 189 Woodward, Mrs A. M. 198 Wedgwood, Josiah 30, 33, 86 Worcester 81, 130, 138, 142, 143 Wedgwood, Thomas 27, 30, 50, Wordsworth, Ann (mother) 1, 57,229 2 Weir, Miss 83, 88, 99 Wordsworth, Catharine Wellington, Duke of 82, 100, 139 (daughter) 75, 76, 80, 82, 83, Wensleydale 37, 49, 119 87, 88, 154 West, Benjamin 86 Wordsworth, Charles (son of CW) Westall, William 108, 109, 176, 191 122, 140, 142, 143, 160, 172, Weymouth 61 188-9, 210; see Winchester and Whateley, Archbishop 212 Glenalmond Whitaker, Dr Thomas 72 Wordsworth, Christopher 1, 2, 7, 8, 17-18, 18, (brother) 1, 4, 5, 7, 12, 15, 41, 71, 91, 97, 150, 154, 162, 165, 49, 50, 51, 59, 81, 98, 112, 128, 167, 215 141, 146, 154, 155, 157, 161, Whitehaven Castle (Lord 178, 179, 182, 194, 199, 200; see Lonsdale's) 156, 172, 190 Trinity College and Lodge Whitwick 141-6 passim, 148-9 Lambeth 65, 66, 70, 85, 100, Wight, Isle of 15-16, 212 101, 104, 111, 112 Wilberforce, William 98, 107, 108, Bocking 87, 98 185-6, 200, 223-4 Sundridge 100, 104, 110, 112 Wilkie, David 66, 86, 127, 223 the Lake District 122, 155, 163 Wilkin, F. W. 175 (c£.107), 196, 206 Wilkin, Mr 77,90 Buxted 157, 158, 211 Wilkinson, Revd Joseph 78, 80 Wordsworth, Christopher (son of Wilkinson, Joshua Lucock 14, 44, CW) 141, 142, 143, 160, 167, 46 168, 171, 174, 187, 189--90 Wilkinson, Thomas 44-5, 54, 63, Harrow 174, 189, 194, 195, 204, 64,66,67-8, 78,102,104 207 Williams, Helen Maria 12, 116 the Lake District 122, 140, 151 Wilson, Revd Carus 100 (c£.150), 166, 167, 202, 216 Wilson, John 233 Westminster 207, 214, 214-15 in the Lake District 75, 77, 78; Memoirs of W 10, 11, 216, 221 see Elleray; 88, 91, 134, 155, Wordsworth, Dorothy (sister) 1, 2 202 and passim; see Halifax Edinburgh and Blackwood's 94, Racedown 21-6 109, 111, 147 Alfoxden 26££ Winchester 123, 172, 189, 195, Germany 34-5 211-12 Grasmere 37ff General Index 249

Wordsworth, Dorothy-continued Wordsworth, John (father) 1, 2, 3, Scotland, tour and Recollections 5,101 52-5, 58, 62, 122 Wordsworth, John (brother) 1, 4, Fairfield 88 5, 6, 8, 24, 36--44 passim, 61-2, DrBell 88 62, 65, 87 Kendal, 1818 electioneering 106 Wordsworth, John (son) 51, 65, Scafell climb 108 80,83,84, 104,110,152,155, Continental tour, 1820,and 156, 167, 178, 179, 182, 183, Journal 112-16, 118 185, 192, 193, 195, 215, 220; see Scotland with Joanna H 122 Brigham and Plumbland at Brinsop Court 136-8 pre-university education 91, 97, Isle of Man 144 99-100, 103, 108, 109, 111, at Whitwick 145-9 117, 122 illnesses 148, 150, 151, 161, 171 Oxford 123-4, 127, 136, 138, final phase 173, 193-4, 206, 218, 139 221 Whitwick 141, 142, 143, 146, Wordsworth, Dorothy ('Sissy', 148, 149 'Dora', daughter) 58, 67, 82, Moresby 146, 148, 149, 153, 156, 88, 89, 91, 103, 107, 109, 121- 164, 167 215 passim; see Quillinan engagement and marriage 154, tour in Wales 127, 128-30 156 Kents Bank 133 Isle of Man 150, 165 Lockhart 134 Scotland 93, 94, 156, 165 Brinsop Court, London, and rectorate 168, 172 Rhineland tour 140-4 abroad 205, 208, 211 Scotland with W 159, 160 his children 164, 169, 203, 209, Stockton with MW 165 211, 212, 213, 218, 218-19, ill-health 139--40, 153, 154, 155, 221; see Jane W 164, 169, 171, 172, 173, 177, Wordsworth, John (Capt., cousin) 178, 198, 209 8, 17-18,23,24,40,58,62,64, and Leamington 172, 179 65, 88, 99, 102, 104 Helvellyn 193 Wordsworth, John (son of CW) W and her marriage 136, 153 122, 140, 142, 143, 160, 162, Mrs Quillinan 195ff 168, 184, 186, 191 Portugal and 208-9, Wordsworth, John ('Keswick}', (return) 212, (journal) 213 son of RW) 99, 102, 118-19 Wordsworth, Fanny (wife of W's education 146, 148, 153, 161, son William) 213, 214-18 162, 168, 169 passim inheritance 172, 173, 174, 178 Wordsworth, Gordon (grandson) with W in London 175, 176 25 appointments in the Army Wordsworth, Isabella (wife of W's Medical Service 189, 202 son John) 154, 155, 156, 160, final phase 203, 211, 212, 213 162, 164, 165, 166, 171, 172, Wordsworth,Mary(nee 193,202,203,205,206,209, Hutchinson, q.v.) 49-222 211, 212, 215, 217, 218 passim Wordsworth, Jane (grand• inheritance 82 daughter) 164, 215, 216, 217, tour of Scotland 93-4 219,220,222 and Keats 105 250 General Index

Wordsworth, Mary-continued 183, 184, 185, 187, 188, 197, Continental tour, 1820 112-16, 198 118 education 75, 83, 84, 133, 146, Whitwick 143, 145, 148 147, 174, 210-11 preparing John's house at the French Revolution 14, 15, Moresby 156 18, 105, 144, 170 visits to her brother Tom after the Laureateship 202 his accident 179, 188, 193, Nature 19, 25, 132 194, 203, 210, 219-20 paintings, interest in 70, 73, 85, devotion to her grandchildren 85-6, 112, 116, 127, 141, 175, (e.g.) 177, 205, 206, 217, 176 218-19 parliamentary reform 108, 119- Wordsworth, Priscilla (nee Lloyd, 20, 157, 158, 160, 162, 166, wife of CW) 59, 65, 66, 81, 98 170 Wordsworth, Richard portraits of 31, 32, 51, 66, 103, (grandfather) 1, 11 104, 105, 158, 163, 166, 170, Wordsworth, Richard (uncle) 1, 2, 175 (Wilkin), 178, 182, 190, 5, 7, 11, 12, 17-18, 18, 19 193, 199, 206, 216 Wordsworth, Richard (brother) 1- his reading (indications of) 2, 3, 9 passim, 12, 13, 14, 19, 24, 25, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 27, 34, 65, 44, 49, 61, 63, 66, 92, 100, 72-3, 75, 82, 119, 145, 146-7, 101 151, 164 the Lonsdale debt 48, 50-1 on slavery 164-5 at Sockbridge 59, 79, 80, 84, 95, the sonnet 164 99 his Stamp-Distributorship 90, posthumous settlement of his 90-1, 91, 93, 102, 103, 105, own debts 101-3; see 106, 112, 148, 153, 158, 158- Wordsworth, John (son of 9, 165, 170, 175, 198, 199 RW) his trachoma 60, 82, 92, 110, Wordsworth, Mrs Richard 92, 99, 111, 112, 118, 119, 120, 122, 102, 118-19, 126; (Mrs 124, 132, 134, 137, 148, 149, Lightfoot) 153, 161, 203, 213 152, 159, 160, 162-3, 166, Wordsworth, Richard (cousin) 5, 175, 181, 186, 197, 202, 211 18, 59,90 Tractarianism 200, 201-2, 205, Wordsworth, Robinson (cousin) 207-8 25 zoological interests 116, 171, Wordsworth, Susanna (wife of CW 175 junior) 189, 214, 216, 221 Wordsworth, William (son) 80, Wordsworth, Thomas (son) 66, 82, 84, 96, 103, 110, 117, 126, 82, 83, 85, 88, 89, 90 133, 139, 144, 148, 158, 159, Wordsworth, William 167, 168, 188, 195, 197, 205, on books 3, 24, 147, 153, 187, 208, 210, 214 196, 210-11 illnesses 89, 95, 121, 122, 128, Catholicism 82-3, 119-20, 133, 130,208 148, 196, 205; (in Ireland) education 110, 118, 119, 121, 131, 151 122, 125, 132, 133 the 166, career and continued education 167-8 in Germany 145, 146, 147, copyright 76, 109, 170, 176, 181, 148, 151, 156, 158 General Index 251

Wordsworth, William-continued Wyon,E. W. 172,214 Sub-Distributorship 161, 162, Wythbum 39 163, 170, 175, 176 Distributorship 188, 198, 199 marriage 213, 214; see Wordsworth, .Fanny 64, 67 (with Wilkinson), Workington 154, 156, 168, 169, 104 172, 182, 216 Yarrow, river and valley 94, Wrangham, Revd Francis 20, 21, 160 22, 42, 75, 82, 85, 100, 142; Yewdale 4, 84 (and Juvenal) 21, 22, 24, 68-9 York 5, 100, 118, 119, 137, 169, Wycliffe, John 141 203, 210, 217, 228 Wye, valley and river 16, 33, 81, Youdell, Betty and Sarah 82, 83-4, 141, 194-5, 203 88 Index to Wordsworth's Poetry and Prose

Aeneid translations 126, 127 The Cuckoo-Oock 192 Airey-Foree Valley 172 , On a High Part of Alice Fell 45--6 the Coast of 2, 164 Anacreon 4 Daisy, To the 63 A Ballad 4 'Dear native regions' 5 'Beaumont! it was thy wish' 57 Death, Sonnets upon the Beauty and Moonlight 4 Punishmentof 191,196,197 Beggars 38 'Degenerate Douglas!' 54 The Bird of Paradise 171-2 Descriptive Sketches 9-10, 10, 11, The Blind Highland Boy 69 13,14,22-3,128,130 The Borderers 23-8 passim, 30, 194, Desultory Stanzas 114 197, 198 Devil's Bridge, To the Torrent at The Brothers 37, 38, 39, 42, 59 the 129 Brougham Castle, Song at the Devotional Incitements 162 Feastof 69 Dion 97 Bruges, Incident at 144 Dora, To 60 Burns, A Letter to a Friend of Robert Duddon, The River 3, 108, 110 (and 100, 101, 102, 106, 109 dedication), 111 Burns, At the Grave of 173 Duty, Ode to 56 (Burns) Thoughts 173, 191 Dyer, John, To the Poet 84 Butterfly, To a 2, 46 Ecclesiastical Sonnets 2, 117, 118, 120, 166, 200 Catechising 2 Echo, upon the Gemmi 115 Cenotaph 131 The Egyptian Maid 146 A Character 40 Elegiac Musings (on Sir G. Characteristics of a Child Three Beaumont) 156--7 Years Old 83, 90 (on F. W. 'Chatsworth! thy stately mansion' Goddard) 114 156 Elegiac Stanzas (on Mrs Fermor) Cintra, Concerning ... the 131 Convention of 76, 77 Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Clarkson, To Thomas 70 Picture of Peele Castle 18, 66 Cockermouth Castle, Address Elegiac Verses ('The Sheep-boy from the Spirit of 2 whistled loud') 62 A Complaint 70 The Emigrant Mother 46 Composed at Cora Linn 52 'Enlightened Teacher, gladly from The Contrast 130 thy hand' 204 The Cuckoo at Lavema 181 Enterprise, To 120 Cuckoo, To the 46 Epistle (to Sir G. Beaumont) 84

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Epitaphs, Essay upon 79 Hogg, James, Extempore Effusion Essay, Supplementary to the upon the Death of 172-3 Preface 95, 96, 97 The Horn of Egremont Castle 69 Esthwaite, The Vale of 4, 5 'How clear, how keen, how Evening of Extraordinary marvellously bright' 99 Splendour and Beauty, 'How rich that forehead's calm Composed upon an 103, 109 expanse!' 131 An Evening Walk 6, 8, 14, 17, 128 15, 25, 62, 80, 83, 'I wandered lonely as a cloud' 47 84, 90, 92--8 passim, 111, 132, 32, 43 139, 176, 189, 205 'If this great world of joy and reference to passages 64, 67, 71, pain' 166 82, 90, 96; for Book 1, see The Inscription (for Southey's Ruined Cottage and The memorial) 203 Pedlar Installation Ode 214, 21~15 Expostulation and Reply 32 Intimations of Immortality 46, 48, 57 'The fairest, brightest, hues of 'It is a beauteous evening' 49 ether fade' 88 The Farmer of Tilsbury Vale 39 A Jewish Fainily 144 Fast, Upon the late General 162 Fidelity 63 Kilchurn Castle, Address to 53 Fleming, To the Lady 123 King's College Chapel, Cambridge, A Flower Garden 131 Inside of 117 The Force of Prayer 71, 72 'From the dark chambers of 'Lady, I rifled a Parnassian Cave' dejection freed' 95 110 Furness Abbey, At 209 Lamb, Charles, Written after the Death of 172 The Gleaner 143 95,97 Glen Almain 54, 64 'Let other bards of angels sing' The Glow-worm see the 'Lucy' 131 poems Liberty 227 Goody Blake and Harry Gill 32 Lines ('Loud is the Vale') 68 Grasmere, Home at 4, 38, 57, 67 Lines ('Nay, Traveller! rest') 3 Green, George and Sarah 74 Lines Left upon a Seat in a Yew- Guide to the lAkes 78, 108, 111, 120, tree 25 123, 172 Lines on the Expected Invasion 55 Long Meg and her Daughters 117 Happy Warrior, Character of the 'Lucy' poems 34, 43, 46 ('Among 65 all lovely things') Hart-leap Well 37 Lycoris, Ode to 97, 103 Hawkshead, Lines Written as a 32, 33, 35-6; (new School Exercise at 4 edition, 2 vols) 38, 39, 40-2, Haydon, To B. R. (on seeing his 48, 63; (preface) 39, 40, 48, 56 picture of Napoleon) 159 'High is our calling, Friend!' (to March, Written in 47 Haydon) 99 Maternal Grief 90 Highland Girl, To a 53 Mathetes, Reply to 78, 79 254 Index to Wordsworth's Poetry and Prose

The Matron of Jedborough 0 o 0 54 36, 56, 56-7, 57, 59, 'Matthew' poems 3 62, 65, 70, 161, 162, 188, 221 Memorial, Near the Outlet of the reference to passages 2-20 Lake of Thun 113 passim, 23, 34, 53, 57, 81 Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 The Primrose of the Rock 47 187, 197 Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, Railway, On the Projected Kendal 1820 114, 115, 119, 120, 220 and Windermere 207 'Men of the Western World! in The Rainbow 46 Fate's dark book' 190-1 The Recluse 26-7, 29, 36, 56, 57, 62, ~chael 4,41,42,49,56 65, 67, %, 104, 110, 118, 130, Musings near Aquapendente 180, 138, 152, 185; see Home at 194 Grasmere The Redbreast Chasing the A Night-piece 28 Butterfly 47 The Norman Boy 194 Resolution and Independence 40, November, 1806 69 47, 47-8, 48, 51 November, 1836 171 The Ruined Cottage 25,25-6,29, Nutting 3, 34 147 The Russian Fugitive 147 '0 dearer far than light and life are Ruth 39 dear' 131 Oker Hill, A Tradition of 143 The Old Cumberland Beggar 25 'Said Secrecy to Cowardice and 'Once I could hail (howe'er serene Fraud' 184 the sky)' 137 The Sailor's Mother 46 Oxford, May 30, 1820 112 the Salisbury Plain poem 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 30, 32, 35, 185 A Parsonage in Oxfordshire 112 Scott, Sir Walter (on his departure The Pedlar 40, 44, 45, 46, 57 from Abbotsford) 160, 161 16, 31, 32, 35, 46, 73, 86, September 18020 Near Dover 83 109,112 September, 1819 110 The Pine of Monte Mario at Rome Seven Sisters, The 39 180, 187 Sister, To my 30 Poems IJy William Wordsworth 97, 'So fair, so sweet, withal so 100-1 sensitive' 206 Poems Chiefly of Early and Later 54, 64 Years 197, 199 A Somersetshire Tragedy 25 Poems, Composed or Suggested The Somnambulist 137 During a Tour, 1833 166 The Sonnets of William Wordsworth Poems in Two Volu!71es 70 185, 190 Poems on the Naming of Places Spade of a Friend, To the 64, 69 39 (To Joanna, The Fir Grove), The Sparrow's Nest 2 40 (Point Rash Judgment; cfo Star-Gazers 66 39, 41) Stepping Westward 54, 62 Postscript, 1835 170 Stray Pleasures 66 Power of Music 66 'A Stream, to mingle with your Power of Sound, On the 155 favourite Dee' 129 Preface (1815) 95, 96, 97 'Surprised by joy' 87 Index to Wordsworth's Poetry and Prose 255

The Tables Turned 32 The Westmoreland Girl 209 Thanksgiving Ode 100, 100--1, 102 Westmorland freeholders, 'There is a little unpretending Rill' addresses to 106 17 'What heavenly smiles!' 131 Tintem Abbey, Lines composed a 'Where lies the truth?' 211 few miles above 16, 33, 104, 'While not a leaf seems faded' 99 126 'A whirl-blast from behind the Thomson's 'Castle oflndolence', hill' 30 Stanzas written in 47 The White Doe of Rylstone 44, 64, TheThom 31 71, 72, 73, 74, 96, 97, 98 The Three Graves 25 'Why art thou silent!' 152 The Triad 143 'Why should we weep or mourn, To-- ('Like a shipwreck'd Sailor Angelic boy' 211 tost') 164 The Wishing-Gate 143 Toussaint l'Ouverture, To 50 The Wishing-Gate Destroyed 196 The Tuft of Primroses 71 Worcester Cathedral, A Gravestone in 143 Vaudracour and Julia 13, 111

The Waggoner 44, 65, 66, 86, 109 Yarrow Revisited 160 'Wansfell! this Household has a Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems favoured lot' 200 168, 170 16, 27 Yarrow Unvisited 54, 60 Wellington, On a Portrait of, by Yarrow Visited 94 Haydon 193 'Yes, it was the mountain Echo' Westminster Bridge, Composed 66 upon 49,159 Yew-trees 59