The Prose Works of William Wordsworth / For the First Time Collected, With Additions from Unpublished Manuscripts. In Three Volumes.

by William Wordsworth

[142] Specimens of English Sonnets. A.D.

[143] This letter is in the handwriting of Miss D. Wordsworth, but signed by Mr. W. A.D.

[144] Memoirs, ii. 284-6.

[145] Memoirs, ii. 286-7.

[146] Excursion, book i.

[147] Memoirs, ii. 287-8.

[148] This hope, alas! was not realised. Mrs. Hemans died in the following year, May 16, 1835.

[149] Memoirs, ii. 291-2.

[150] Memoirs, ii. 292-4.

[151] Mr. Montgomery informed the (now) Bishop of Lincoln that 'this poem when forwarded to Wordsworth was not in the condition in which it is now, but that it had been almost rewritten, and was also his earliest poem—composed when he was nineteen.' G.