Poems of William Wordsworth . hMen of Letters Series (Macmillan); Wordsworth inLiterary Essays, Vol. IV, by James Russell Lowell(Houghton Mifflin); the most admirable introduc-tion by Lord Morley to The Complete PoeticalWorks of William Wordsworth (Crowell); the articleon Wordsworth in the Encyclopedia Britannica;Life of William Wordsworth, three volumes, byWilliam Knight (Wm. Paterson, Edinburgh). Thesethe present editor has made use of. In addition are the following, in no way inferiorto the preceding but not directly employed in pre-paring this edition: William Wordsworth, twovolumes, by G.
Poems of William Wordsworth . hMen of Letters Series (Macmillan); Wordsworth inLiterary Essays, Vol. IV, by James Russell Lowell(Houghton Mifflin); the most admirable introduc-tion by Lord Morley to The Complete PoeticalWorks of William Wordsworth (Crowell); the articleon Wordsworth in the Encyclopedia Britannica;Life of William Wordsworth, three volumes, byWilliam Knight (Wm. Paterson, Edinburgh). Thesethe present editor has made use of. In addition are the following, in no way inferiorto the preceding but not directly employed in pre-paring this edition: William Wordsworth, twovolumes, by G. M. Harper (Scribners); Memoirs ofWordsworth by his nephew. Bishop ChristopherWordsworth; De Quincey, Works, vols. II and V;Miscellanies by Algernon Charles Swinburne; Mat-thew Arnold by F. W. H. Myers; WordsworthsEthics in Hours in a Library, Vol. Ill, by Sir LeslieStephen; Wordsworth by Sir Walter Raleigh; Age ofWordsworth by C. H. Herford; Appreciations byWalter Pater; Wordsworth in Lives of Great Writersby W. S. !_ ^-^yw r^ ^^-^--IJ-^WX/-^-^ Wordsworth From a sketch from life by Alfred Croquis in Frasers Magazine. ARNOLDS ESSAY ON WORDSWORTH 1. I REMEMBER hearing Lord Macaulay say,after Wordsworths death, when subscriptionswere being collected to found a memorial of him,that ten years earlier more money could have beenraised in Cambridge alone, to do honor to Words- 5worth, than was now raised all through the coun-try. Lord Macaulay had, as we know, his ownheightened and telling way of putting things, andwe must always make allowance for it. But prob-ably it is true that Wordsworth has never, either 10before or since, been so accepted and popular, soestablished in possession of the minds of all whoprofess to care for poetry, as he was between theyears 1830 and 1840, and at Cambridge. Fromthe very first, no doubt, he had his believers and 15witnesses. But I have myself heard him declarethat, for he knew not how many years, his poetryhad never brought him in enough
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