P. [65]. Wordsworth.—The first two stanzas 'Composed in the Simplon Pass', 1820. The concluding eight lines are from At Vallombrosa, written when the poet's 'fond wish' to visit this spot had been realized in 1837. Wordsworth is at pains to defend Milton from the charge of having blundered in Paradise Lost, by suggesting that the trees are 'deciduous whereas they are, in fact, pines'. 'The fault-finders', Wordsworth says, 'are themselves mistaken; the natural woods of the region of Vallombrosa are deciduous.'
P. [66]. Rogers.—From Italy.
P. [73]. Phillimore.—By permission of the author.
P. [78]. Blunt.—By permission of the author.
P. [81]. Tennyson.—Lear was not only the inventor or popularizer of 'Limericks', but also a highly-esteemed artist.
Pp. [83] and [85]. Rodd.—By permission of the author, who wrote the introduction to the Oxford anthology, The Englishman in Greece.
P. [86]. Shelley.—Stanzas 4 and 5 of the Ode to Liberty.
P. [87]. Byron.—From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto i, 60 and 61.
P. [91]. Browning.—This poem is not complete.
P. [96]. Byron.—From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto iii, 55.