of his Poems—his editor did so. He gave what are really excellent titles, but he does not tell us that they are his own! He calls them respectively
The Thrush at Twilight
, and
The Thrush at Dawn
. Possibly Wordsworth would have approved of both of those titles: but, that they are not his, should have been indicated.
I do not think it wise, from an editorial point of view, even to print in a "Chronological Table"—as Professor Dowden has done, in his admirable Aldine edition—titles which were not Wordsworth's, without some indication to that effect. But, in the case of Selections from Wordsworth—such as those of Mr. Hawes Turner, and Mr. A. J. Symington,—every one must feel that the editor should have informed his readers
when
the title was Wordsworth's, and
when
it was his own coinage. In the case of a much greater man—and one of Wordsworth's most illustrious successors in the great hierarchy of English poesy, Matthew Arnold—it may be asked why should he have put