FOOTNOTES:
[1] Perhaps the most interesting entry in Henry Crabb Robinson's Journal of the tour is the following: "26th June 1820.—I made some cheap purchases: if anything not wanted can be cheap."
[2] In the original MS. there is no title. The above is a descriptive one, given by the editor.—Ed.
[3] Compare Keats, Miscellaneous Poems—
There crept
A little noiseless noise amongst the leaves
Born of the very sigh that silence heaves. Ed.
And Coleridge, The Æolian Harp—
The stilly murmur of the distant sea
Tells us of silence. Ed.
[4] Mr. Bartholemew rented Alfoxden, and sub-let the house to Wordsworth.—Ed.
[5] This house was afterwards John Kenyon's,—to whom Aurora Leigh is dedicated,—and was subsequently the residence of the Rev. William Nichols, author of The Quantocks and their Associations.—Ed.
[6] Of Nether-Stowey, the agent of the Earl of Egmont.—Ed.
[7] Compare The Recluse, 1. 91—
Her Voice was like a hidden Bird that sang. Ed.
[8] Did this suggest the lines in Christabel?—
The one red leaf, the last of its clan,
That dances as often as dance it can,
Hanging so light, and hanging so high,
On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky. Ed.
[9] See "A whirl-blast from behind the hill" in the "Poetical Works," vol. i. p. 238.—Ed.
[10] See The Thorn, "Poetical Works," vol. i. p. 239.—Ed.
[11] The ballad was finished by February 18, 1798. See Early Recollections, etc., by Joseph Cottle, vol. i. p. 307 (1837).—Ed.
[12] This was the earliest portrait of Wordsworth by W. Shuter. It is now in the possession of Mrs. St. John, Ithaca, U.S.A.—Ed.
[13] It is thus written in the MS., but the 22nd May 1798 was a Tuesday. If the entry refers to a Thursday, the day of the month should have been written 24th. Dorothy Wordsworth was not exact as to dates.—Ed.
[14] This is not Dorothy's own title. Her Journal has no title.—
Ed.
[15] i.e. William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Chester.—Ed.
[16] i.e. Rydal Hall, the residence of Sir Michael le Fleming.—Ed.
[17] Their neighbour at Town-End, who helped Wordsworth to make the steps up to the orchard, in Dove Cottage garden.—Ed.
[18] I think that this name was given to a bit of the valley to the north-east of Grasmere village; but Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's opinion is that "'The Black Quarter' was simply the family nickname for Easedale. The phrase seems to disappear from the Journals as they got more accustomed to local names. It is an excellent description of the usual appearance of these fells, and makes a contrast to the name of the White Moss, which lay behind Dove Cottage; as Easedale lay in front, and was equally in their thoughts."—Ed.
[19] Compare Lines written in Early Spring, "Poetical Works," vol. i. p. 269—
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.Ed.
[20] Compare The Green Linnet, in the "Poetical Works," vol. ii. p. 367.—Ed.
[21] Compare the poem Beggars, in the "Poetical Works" vol. ii. pp. 276-281.—Ed.
[22] This and the two following dates are incorrectly given. They should be "Wednesday 11th, Thursday 12th, and Friday 13th June."—Ed.
[23] Coleridge arrived at Grasmere on Sunday 29th June.—Ed.
[24] The dates here given are confusing. S. T. C. says he was ill at Grasmere, and stayed a fortnight. In a letter to Tom Poole he says he arrived at Keswick on 24th July, which was a Thursday.—Ed.
[25] That Friday was the 25th July. The two next dates were incorrectly entered by Dorothy.—Ed.
[26] The Landscape: a Didactic Poem in three Books. By Richard Payne Knight. 1794.—Ed.
[27] Compare The Excursion, book iv. II. 1185-1195.—Ed.
[28] Professor Dowden thinks that this refers to the poem on John's Grove. But a hitherto unpublished fragment will soon be issued by the Messrs. Longman, which may cast fresh light on this "Inscription of the Pathway."—Ed.
[29] The Preface to the second edition of Lyrical Ballads.—Ed.
[30a] i.e. of the Notes and Preface to the second edition of Lyrical Ballads.—Ed.
[30] i.e. of the Notes and Preface to the second edition of Lyrical Ballads.—Ed.
[31] Compare Resolution and Independence, in the "Poetical Works," vol. ii. p. 312.—Ed.
[32] Pride's Cure. The title was afterwards changed to John Woodvill.—Ed.
[33] The editor of The Morning Post.—Ed.
[34] Mary Point and Sarah Point.—Ed.
[35] On the western side of Grasmere Lake.—Ed.
[36] Coniston 'Old Man.'—Ed.
[37] The landlord of Wytheburn Inn.—Ed.
[38] A Cumberland word for a rillet.—Ed.
[39a] Compare To a Highland Girl, 1. 8—
[39] Compare To a Highland Girl, 1. 8—
[40] Probably some of the lines afterwards included in The Excursion.—Ed.
A murmur near the silent lake.Ed.
[41] See, in the "Poetical Works," Simon Lee, II. 95, 96, vol. i. p. 268.—Ed.
[42] An unprinted letter.—Ed.
[43] See Stanzas, written in my Pocket Copy of Thomson's Castle of Indolence, "Poetical Works," vol. ii. p. 305.—Ed.
[44] This refers probably to Loch Leven in Argyll, but its point is not obvious, and Dorothy Wordsworth had not then been in Scotland.—Ed.
[45] A Galloway pony.—Ed.
[46] See the "Poetical Works," vol. ii. p. 335.—Ed.
[47] Compare, in Lines written in Early Spring, vol. i. p. 269—
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.Ed.
[48] Compare the poem To the Clouds, vol. viii. p. 142, and the Fenwick note to that poem.—Ed.
[49] This still exists, but is known to few.—Ed.
[50] By Ben Jonson.—Ed.
[51] See the poem Alice Fell, in the "Poetical Works," vol. ii. p. 273.—Ed.
[52] See "Poetical Works," vol. ii. p. 335.—Ed.
[53] March 2nd.—Ed.
[54] First published in 1807, under the title of The Sailor's Mother.—Ed.
[55] Gallow Hill, Yorkshire.—Ed.
[56a] See "The Cock is crowing," etc., vol. ii. p. 293.—Ed.
[56] See "The Cock is crowing," etc., vol. ii. p. 293.—Ed.
[57] See vol. ii. p. 295.—Ed.
[58] Published as a separate poem.—Ed.
[59] Can these "Verses" have been the first draft of Dejection, an Ode, in its earliest and afterwards abandoned form? It is said to have been written on 2nd April 1802.—Ed.
[60] See The Waterfall and the Eglantine, and The Oak and the Broom, vol. ii. pp. 170, 174.—Ed.
[61] See The Primrose of the Rock, vol. vii. p. 274.—Ed.
[62] Compare To the Clouds, vol. viii. p. 142.—Ed.
[63] See Foresight, vol. ii. p. 298.—Ed.
[64] See vol. ii. p. 300.—Ed.
[65] "Resigned" is curiously used in the Lake District. A woman there once told me that Mr. Ruskin was "very much resigned to his own company."—Ed.
[66] Doubtless the second of the two poems, beginning thus—
Pleasures newly found are sweet.Ed.
[67] Mary Point and Sara Point; the "two heath-clad rocks" referred to in one of the "Poems on the Naming of Places."—Ed.
[68] Compare The Green Linnett, vol. ii. p. 367.—Ed.
[69] Christopher North.—Ed.
[70] Doubtless the Ode, Intimations of Immortality.—Ed.
[71] Several of the poems, referred to in this Journal, are difficult, if not impossible, to identify. The Inscription of the Pathway, finished on the 28th of August 1800; The Epitaph, written on the 28th January 1801; The Yorkshire Wolds poem, referred to on March 10th, 1802; also The Silver Howe poem, and that known in the Wordsworth household as The Tinker. It is possible that some of them were intentionally suppressed. The Inscription of the Pathway and The Tinker will, however, soon be published.—Ed.
[72] Compare the sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802, in vol. ii. p. 328.—Ed.
[73] Compare the sonnet ("Poetical Works," vol. ii. p. 330) beginning—
Fair Star of evening, Splendour of the west.Ed.
[74] It may not be a too trivial detail to note that Coleridge's Dejection, an Ode, appeared in The Morning Post on Wordsworth's marriage day.—Ed.
[75] This sonnet was not thought worthy of being preserved.—Ed.
[76] This should have been entered 1st November.—Ed.
Criffel.—J. C. S.
[78] Annandale.—J. C. S.
[79] There is some mistake here. The Hopetoun title was not taken from any place in the Leadhills, much less from the house shaped like an H.—J. C. S.
[80] Probably the Rev. John Aird, minister of the parish, 1801-1815.—J. C. S.
[81] Ragweed.—J. C. S.
[82] Tinto.—J. C. S.
[83] New Lanark, Robert Owen's mills.—J. C. S.
[84] Lady Mary Ross.—J. C. S.
[85] Corehouse.—J. C. S.
[86] The house belonging to the Earls of Hopetoun at Leadhills, not that which bears this name about twelve miles from Edinburgh.—J. C. S.
[87] Glasgow Green.—J. C. S.
[88] No doubt Erskine House, the seat of Lord Blantyre.—J. C. S.
[89] A rock in Borrowdale, Cumberland.—Ed.
[90] The inscription on the pillar was written by Professor George Stuart of Edinburgh, John Ramsay of Ochtertyre and Dr. Samuel Johnson; for Dr. Johnson's share in the work see Croker's Boswell, p. 392.—J. C. S.
[91] Camstraddan House and bay.—J. C. S.
[92] See Ruth, stanza xiii.—Ed.
[93] This distinction between the foot and head is not very clear. What is meant is this: They would have to travel the whole length of the lake, from the west to the east end of it, before they came to the Trossachs, the pass leading away from the east end of the lake.—J. C. S.
[94] She means that they stop work before they are tired.—Ed.
[95] There is a mistake here. His bones were laid about fifteen or twenty miles from thence, in Balquhidder kirkyard. But it was under the belief that his "grave is near the head of Loch Ketterine, in one of those pinfold-like burial grounds, of neglected and desolate appearance, which the traveller meets with in the Highlands of Scotland," that the well-known poem on Rob Roy's Grave was composed.—J. C. S.
[96] Goblins' Cave.—J. C. S.