ERRATA AND ADDENDA LIST
REFERRING TO VOLUMES I. TO VIII.
1. Inistar omnium.—I wish to explain the accidental omission of Mr. T. Hutchinson’s name amongst those who helped me in Volumes I. and II. (see the prefatory note to this volume), and also that of Mr. Hill. It was due to my returning, “for press,” an uncorrected copy of my Preface.
2. Vol. ii. p. 106, Ruth, l. 54—The following extract from Bartram’s Travels, etc., illustrates Wordsworth’s debt to him:—
Proceeding on our return to town in the cool of the evening … we enjoyed a most enchanting view; … companies of young innocent Cherokee virgins, some busy gathering the rich fragrant fruit, others having already filled their baskets, lay reclined under the shade of floriferous and fragrant native bowers … disclosing their beauties to the fluttering breeze … whilst other parties, more gay and libertine, were yet collecting strawberries, or wantonly chasing their companions, tantalising them, staining their lips and cheeks with the ripe fruit.
3. In vol. ii. p. 348, the date of publication should be Sept. 17, 1802, not 1803.
4. In The Prelude (vol. iii. p. 202, book v. l. 26) the quotation which I could not trace is from Shakespeare, Sonnet No. 64—
This thought is as a death, which cannot choose
But weep to have that which it fears to lose.
5. Vol. v. p. 113 (The Excursion, book iii. l. 187).—Mr. William E. Walcott—Laurence, Mass. U.S.A.—sends me the following variant readings, which he has found in a copy of the edition of 1814—
… crystal tube
Be lodged therein …
P. 151, book iv. l. 187—
Nor sleep, nor …
6. Vol. vii. p. 276.—This sonnet first appeared in the New Monthly Magazine, part ii. p. 26, under the title, To B. R. Haydon. Composed on seeing his Picture of Napoleon, musing at St. Helena; and it is dated “Saturday, June 11th, 1831.”
7. Vol. vii. p. 336.—This poem was published in the Saturday Magazine, May 18, 1844, in which the fifth line is—
Woe to the purblind men who fill.
8. It may be worth mentioning (1) that the quotation (not noted, unfortunately, where it occurs)—
Some natural tears she drops, but wipes them soon,
is from Paradise Lost, book xii. l. 645. See also An Elegy delivered at the Hot Wells, Bristol, July 1789. (2) That the phrase “numerous verse” is from Paradise Lost, book v. l. 150; and (3) that “lenient hand of Time” is from Bowles’ sonnet—
O Time, who know’st a lenient hand to lay
Softest on sorrow’s wound.
Amongst those which I have failed to trace are the following:
Ecclesiastical Sonnets, II. xxxiv.—
… murtherer’s chain partake,
Corded, and burning at the social stake.
xlv.—
… in the painful art of dying
The Russian Fugitive, Part II. l. 51—
… if house it be or bower.
Elegiac Musings, l. 41—
Let praise be mute where I am laid.
Stanzas suggested in a Steamboat off Saint Bees’ Heads, l. 37—
Cruel of heart were they, bloody of hand.