| 1837 | |
| What a picture! 'tis drawn without nature or art, | 1800 |
What a picture! 'tis drawn without nature or art,
Note:
The full title of this poem, in "Lyrical Ballads," 1800, is A Character, in the antithetical Manner. It was omitted from all subsequent editions till 1837. With this early friend, Robert Jones—a fellow collegian at St. John's College, Cambridge—Wordsworth visited the Continent (France and Switzerland), during the long vacation of 1790; and to him he dedicated the first edition of Descriptive Sketches, in 1793. With him he also made a pedestrian tour in Wales in 1791. Jones afterwards became the incumbent of Soulderne, near Deddington, in Oxfordshire; and Wordsworth described his parsonage there in the sonnet, beginning "Where holy ground begins, unhallowed ends." (See Wordsworth's note to the sonnet Composed near Calais, p. 333.)—Ed.