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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, D.C.L., Poet Laureate, etc. etc. In six volumes. A New Edition. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. MDCCCXLIX.-MDCCCL. 12mo.[457]
[431] These two editions of 1798 are the same; but as Cottle sold to Arch most of the copies printed, the majority bear the name of Arch as publisher.
Four of the poems were by S.T. Coleridge, viz. The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere; The Foster-Mother’s Tale; The Nightingale, a Conversational Poem; and The Dungeon.—Ed.
[432] The first volume of this edition is a reprint of the editions of 1798, The Convict being left out. In it there is one poem by Coleridge entitled Love, which was not in the edition of 1798. The poems in the second volume are new. The preface to Volume 1. contains Wordsworth’s poetical theory in its original form. This preface was included in the 1802 and 1805 editions of Lyrical Ballads, and also—in an expanded form—in almost every subsequent edition of his poems.—Ed.
[433] This was almost a reproduction of the two volumes of 1800, with a few variations of text. The preface, however, was much enlarged. The poem A Character in the Antithetical Manner was left out, also Coleridge’s poem The Dungeon.—Ed.
[434] A reprint of the edition of 1802, with slight variations of text.—Ed.
[435] The Essay on Epitaphs inserted in the notes to this volume was originally published in The Friend, February 22, 1810.—Ed.
[436] This was the first edition of Wordsworth’s Poems arranged by him under distinctive headings, viz. “Poems referring to the Period of Childhood,” “Juvenile Pieces,” “Poems founded on the Affections,” “Poems of the Fancy,” “Poems of the Imagination,” “Poems proceeding from Sentiment and Reflection,” “Miscellaneous Sonnets,” “Sonnets, etc., dedicated to Liberty,” “Poems on the Naming of Places,” “Inscriptions,” “Poems referring to the Period of Old Age,” “Epitaphs and Elegiac Poems,” “Ode, Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Childhood.” In it, he gave dates to his poems.
In Volume I. is an engraving by Mr. Bromley from a picture by Sir George Beaumont; Volume II. has an engraving by Mr. Reynolds from Sir George’s picture of Peele Castle in a storm.—Ed.