[Footnote A:] With Robert Jones, in the summer of 1793.—Ed.
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[Footnote B:] Compare Paradise Lost, book i. l. 21.—Ed.
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[Footnote C:] Compare Paradise Lost, book v. l. 488.—Ed.
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[Footnote D:] Compare [volume 2 link: The Sparrow's Nest], vol. ii. p. 236.—Ed.
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[Footnote E:] See Paradise Lost, book ix. ll. 490, 491.—Ed.
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[Footnote F:] Mary Hutchinson. Compare the [lines], p. 2, beginning:
'She was a Phantom of delight.'
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[Footnote G:] Compare the preface to The Excursion. "Several years ago, when the author retired to his native mountains, with the hope of being enabled to construct a literary work that might live," etc.—Ed.
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[Footnote H:] After leaving London, he went to the Isle of Wight and to Salisbury Plain with Calvert; then to Bristol, the Valley of the Wye, and Tintern Abbey, alone on foot; thence to Jones' residence in North Wales at Plas-yn-llan in Denbighshire; with him to other places in North Wales, thence to Halifax; and with his sister to Kendal, Grasmere, Keswick, Whitehaven, and Penrith.—Ed.
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[Footnote I:] Raisley Calvert.-Ed.
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[Footnote K:] His friend, dying in January 1795, bequeathed to Wordsworth a legacy of £900. Compare the sonnet, in vol. iv., beginning
'Calvert! it must not be unheard by them,'
and the Life of Wordsworth in this edition.—Ed.
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[Footnote L:] The Wordsworths went to Alfoxden in the end of July, 1797. It was in the autumn of that year that, with Coleridge,
'Upon smooth Quantock's airy ridge they roved
Unchecked, or loitered 'mid her sylvan combs;'
when the latter chaunted his Ancient Mariner and Christabel, and Wordsworth composed [volume 1 links: [The Idiot Boy] and [The Thorn]]. The plan of a joint publication was sketched out in November 1797. (See the Fenwick note to [volume 1 link: [We are Seven]], vol. i. p. 228.)—Ed.
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[Footnote M:] The death of his brother John. Compare the [Elegiac Verses] in memory of him, p. 58.—Ed.
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