The Prose Works of William Wordsworth / For the First Time Collected, With Additions from Unpublished Manuscripts. In Three Volumes.
MADAM,
I have the honour to place in your Majesty's hands the hitherto uncollected and unpublished Prose Works of
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
—name sufficient in its simpleness to give lustre to any page.
Having been requested thus to collect and edit his Prose Writings by those who hold his MSS. and are his nearest representatives, one little discovery or recovery among these MSS. suggested your Majesty as the one among all others to whom the illustrious Author would have chosen to dedicate these Works, viz. a rough transcript of a Poem which he had inscribed on the fly-leaf of a gift-copy of the collective edition of his Poems sent to the Royal Library at Windsor Castle. This very tender, beautiful, and pathetic Poem will be found on the other side of this Dedication. It must 'for all time' take its place beside the living Laureate's imperishable verse-tribute to your Majesty.
I venture to thank your Majesty for the double permission so appreciatively given—of this Dedication itself and to print (for the first time) the Poem. The gracious permission so pleasantly and discriminatingly signified is only one of abundant proofs that your Majesty is aware that of the enduring names of the reign of Victoria, Wordsworth's is supreme as Poet and Thinker.
Gratefully and loyally, ALEXANDER B. GROSART.
Deign, Sovereign Mistress! to accept a lay, No Laureate offering of elaborate art; But salutation taking its glad way From deep recesses of a loyal heart.
Queen, Wife, and Mother! may All-judging Heaven Shower with a bounteous hand on Thee and Thine Felicity that only can be given On earth to goodness blest by grace divine.
William Wordsworth
THE PROSE WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.
FOR THE FIRST TIME COLLECTED,
Edited, with Preface, Notes and Illustrations,
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
POLITICAL AND ETHICAL.
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 THREE VOLUMES
I. POLITICAL.
II. ETHICAL.
III. OF EDUCATION.
AESTHETICAL AND LITERARY.
IV. DESCRIPTIVE.
CRITICAL AND ETHICAL.
I. POLITICAL.
II. ETHICAL.
THE PROSE WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.
FOR THE FIRST TIME COLLECTED,
Edited, with Preface, Notes and Illustrations,
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
AESTHETICAL AND LITERARY.
LETTER
A FRIEND OF ROBERT BURNS:
GUIDE
CONTENTS.
DIRECTIONS AND INFORMATION FOR THE TOURIST.
DESCRIPTION OF THE SCENERY OF THE LAKES.
MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS.
ODE.
DIRECTIONS AND INFORMATION FOR THE TOURIST.
DESCRIPTION OF THE SCENERY OF THE LAKES.
MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS.
EXCURSIONS TO THE TOP OF SCAWFELL AND ON THE BANKS OF ULSWATER.
ODE.
ITINERARY OF THE LAKES,
TWO LETTERS
AESTHETICAL AND LITERARY.
IV. DESCRIPTIVE.
FOOTNOTES:
END OF VOL. II.
THE PROSE WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.
FOR THE FIRST TIME COLLECTED,
Edited, with Preface, Notes and Illustrations,
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. III.
POLITICAL AND ETHICAL.
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
CRITICAL AND ETHICAL.
CRITICAL AND ETHICAL.
PART I.
PART II. TO THE CLOSE OF THE TROUBLES IN THE REIGN OF CHARLES I.
PART I.
FOOTNOTES:
THE PROSE WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.
FOR THE FIRST TIME COLLECTED,
Edited, with Preface, Notes and Illustrations,
IN THREE VOLUMES.
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 THREE VOLUMES