[V] Compare the sonnet composed in boyhood, beginning—
Sweet was the walk along the narrow lane,
and printed in an Appendix to vol. viii.—ED.
[W] Compare the Sonnet composed at —— Castle, in the "Memorials of a Tour in Scotland," 1803 (vol. ii. p. 410)—
ED.
A brotherhood of venerable Trees.
[W1] Hawkshead. Compare the notes to The Prelude, in books i. and ii. The Fenwick note tells us, "At Hawkshead, while I was a schoolboy, there occasionally resided a Packman, with whom I had frequent conversations upon what had befallen him, and what he had observed, during his wandering life; and, as was natural, we took much to each other."—ED.
[X] Compare the Elegiac Stansas, suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle, in a Storm (vol. iii. p. 54)—
The consecration, and the Poet's dream;
and the Discourse on Poetry in the Preface to the "Lyrical Ballads" of 1800. See the Prose Works.—ED.