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WITH ADDITIONS FROM UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS.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.

ESTHETICAL AND LITERARY.

LONDON: EDWARD MOXON, SON, AND CO.

1 AMEN CORNER, PATERNOSTER ROW.

1876.

[All rights reserved.]

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

ESTHETICAL AND LITERARY.

1. 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,

(c) Letter to John Peace, Esq., of Bristol, 1844 .

PAGE

1-19

20-22

23

(a) From The Friend'

25-40

III. Essays, Letters, and Notes, elucidatory and confirmatory of

the Poems, 1798-1835:

(a) Of the Principles of Poetry and the 'Lyrical Ballads,'

(d) Of Poetry as Observation and Description, and De-
dication of 1815

131-144

(e) Of The Excursion :' Preface

145-148

*(f) Letters to Sir George and Lady Beaumont and others,

(g) Letter to Charles Fox with the 'Lyrical Ballads,'

and his Answer, &c.

202-207

(h) Letter on the Principles of Poetry and his own Poems

to (afterwards) Professor John Wilson

208-214

(a) A Guide through the District of the Lakes, 1835

(b) Kendal and Windermere Railway: two Letters re-

printed from the Morning Post. Revised, with

Additions, 1844

NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS

321-341

343-347

†The Beaumont Letters are given from the originals, and in many cases, as
elsewhere, contain important additions and corrections. G..