[474] This Aldine edition, by Professor Dowden, is one of great merit, and permanent value. Although it is not immaculate—as no literary work ever is—as a contribution to Wordsworthian Literature it will hold an honoured place. Its “critical apparatus” is succinct and admirable.—Ed.
[475] Mr. Andrew Lang tells me that he is about to edit a Selection of the Poems, for the Messrs. Longman; which will, no doubt, be as useful, and popular, as Matthew Arnold’s Selection has been.—Ed.
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ESTIMATES OF WORDSWORTH IN VARIOUS BOOKS[476]
1811. Seward, Anna. Letters written between the Years 1784 and 1807. Edited by A. Constable, vol. vi. No. 66.[477] 8vo. Edinburgh.
1817. Coleridge, S. T. Biographia Literaria; or, Biographical Sketches of my Literary Life and Opinions. 2 vols. 8vo. London: Rest Fenner. Second Edition. London: William Pickering. 1847. Bohn’s Standard Library. 1866.
Coleridge, S. T. In The Friend, passim. Second Edition. London: Rest Fenner.
Hazlitt, William. The Round Table: a Collection of Essays on Literature, Men, and Manners. Observations on Mr. Wordsworth’s Poem, “The Excursion.” 12mo. London: Templeman. Also in Bohn’s Standard Library. Edited by W. Carew Hazlitt. Pp. 158-176. London. 1871.
1818. Hazlitt, William. Lectures on the English Poets. 8vo. London: Taylor and Hessey. Also in Bohn’s Standard Library. 1870.
1819. Hazlitt, William. Political Essays, with Sketches of Public Characters. My First Acquaintance with Poets. 8vo. London: Templeman. Also in Winterslow, pp. 255-277. Bohn’s Standard Library. 1872.
1823. Soligny, Victoire De, Count, pseud. (i.e. Peter George Patmore, father of the late Coventry Patmore). Letters on England, vol. ii. pp. 7-19. 8vo. London: Henry Colburn and Co.