OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. FOR THE FIRST TIME COLLECTED, WITH ADDITIONS FROM UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS. Edited, with Preface, Notes and Illustrations, BY THE REV. ALEXANDER B. GROSART, ST. GEORGE'S, BLACKBURN, LANCASHIRE. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. ÆSTHETICAL AND LITERARY. LONDON: EDWARD MOXON, SON, AND CO. 1876. * * A star [*] designates publication herein for the first time. G. PAGE 1-19 20-22 23 25-40 41-59 60-75 1. Of Literary Biography and Monuments : (a) A Letter to a Friend of Robert Burns, 1816 (6) Letter to a Friend on Monuments to Literary Men, (c) Letter to John Peace, Esq., of Bristol, 1844 The Country Churchyard, and critical Examina- Celebrated Epitaphs considered III. Essays, Letters, and Notes, elucidatory and confirmatory of (a) Of the Principles of Poetry and the ‘Lyrical Ballads, (d) Of Poetry as Observation and Description, and De- on the Poems and related Subjectst (9) Letter to Charles Fox with the 'Lyrical Ballads, and his Answer, &c. (h) Letter on the Principles of Poetry and his own Poems to (afterwards) Professor John Wilson iv. Descriptive : (a) A Guide through the District of the Lakes, 1835 (6) Kendal and Windermere Railway : two Letters re- printed from the Morning Post. Revised, with Additions, 1844 149-201 202-207 208-214 215-319 • 321-341 NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS 343-347 † The Beaumont Letters are given from the originals, and in many cases, as |