[437] The poem The Force of Prayer; or, the Founding of Bolton Priory follows the White Doe of Rylstone; and the volume contains an engraving by Mr. Bromley from a painting of Bolton Abbey by Sir George Beaumont.—Ed.
[438] The “Friend” was Mr. James Gray, Edinburgh.—Ed.
[439] The volume contains an engraving by Mr. Bromley from a painting by Sir George Beaumont. In addition to Peter Bell, this volume contained four sonnets.—Ed.
[440] This volume was dedicated to Charles Lamb.—Ed.
[441] In 1820 the four separate publications, The Waggoner, etc., Thanksgiving Ode, etc., Peter Bell, etc., and The River Duddon, Vaudracour and Julia, etc., were bound up together with their separate title-pages, and issued under the title, Poems by William Wordsworth, making Volume III. of the Miscellaneous Poems.—Ed.
[442] Each of these volumes contained an engraving from a picture by Sir George Beaumont. They were “Lucy Gray,” “Peter Bell,” “The White Doe of Rylstone,” and “Peele Castle.” All had appeared in previous editions. The “Advertisement” states that this edition contains the whole of the published poems of the Author, with the exception of The Excursion, and that a few Sonnets “are now first published.”
It is worthy of note that, in this edition, Wordsworth for the first time abandoned the practice of putting in an apostrophe, instead of a vowel letter, in words ending with “ed,” and in similar cases of contraction.—Ed.
[443] Wordsworth added to this series of Sonnets, in the one-volume edition of 1845 which contained 132. In the first edition, there were 102 sonnets.—Ed.
[444] This originally appeared as an Introduction to Wilkinson’s Select Views in Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire, which was published in 1810. In 1820 it was included (see No. 18) in The River Duddon: A Series of Sonnets. In 1823 a fourth edition appeared which was a reprint of that of 1822.—Ed.
[445] To this edition Wordsworth prefixed the following “Advertisement”:—“In these volumes will be found the whole of the Author’s published poems, for the first time collected in a uniform edition, with several new pieces interspersed.”—Ed.