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| THE PROSE WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. | 1 |
| TO THE QUEEN. | 1 |
| WILLIAM WORDSWORTH | 1 |
| PREFACE. | 2 |
| VOL. I. | 3 |
| II. ETHICAL. | 10 |
| II. Advice to the Young. | 10 |
| III. OF EDUCATION. | 11 |
| VOL. II. | 11 |
| I. Of Literary Biography and Monuments. | 11 |
| II. UPON EPITAPHS. | 12 |
| 12 |
| IV. DESCRIPTIVE. | 12 |
| VOL. III. | 13 |
| I. Notes and Illustrations of the Poems, incorporating: | 13 |
| II. Letters and Extracts of Letters. | 15 |
| CONTENTS OF VOL. I. | 20 |
| POLITICAL. | 20 |
| ETHICAL. | 21 |
| NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS 357-360 | 21 |
| I. APOLOGY FOR THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. 1793. | 21 |
| MY LORD, | 21 |
| APPENDIX to Bishop Watson’s Sermon. | 37 |
| II. THE CONVENTION OF CINTRA, | 44 |
| ADVERTISEMENT. | 45 |
| CONCERNING THE CONVENTION OF CINTRA. | 45 |
| APPENDIX. | 158 |
| SUSPENSION OF ARMS | 164 |
| POSTSCRIPT | 169 |
| 179 |
| IV. TWO ADDRESSES TO THE FREEHOLDERS OF WESTMORELAND. | 189 |
| ADVERTISEMENT. | 189 |
| GENTLEMEN, | 197 |
| V. OF THE CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL, 1829. | 225 |
| II. ETHICAL. | 233 |
| APPENDIX TO POEMS. | 233 |
| II. ADVICE TO THE YOUNG. | 250 |
| INTRODUCTION TO ‘THE FRIEND,’ VOL. III. (1850). | 250 |
| III. OF EDUCATION. | 274 |
| NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. | 295 |
| I. Apology for the French Revolution. | 295 |
| II. The Convention of Cintra. | 296 |
| II. ETHICAL. | 298 |
| THE PROSE WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. | 300 |
| 300 |
| AESTHETICAL AND LITERARY. | 300 |
| AESTHETICAL AND LITERARY. | 301 |
| II. UPON EPITAPHS. | 316 |
| III. ESSAYS, LETTERS, AND NOTES ELUCIDATORY AND CONFIRMATORY OF THE POEMS. | 353 |
| OF HIS OWN POEMS AS FALSELY CRITICISED. | 429 |
| OF THE INSCRIPTIONS AT COLEORTON. | 441 |
| OF THE INSCRIPTIONS AT COLEORTON. | 444 |
| EXCURSION IN NORTH WALES. | 446 |
| IV. DESCRIPTIVE. | 458 |
| AND IN LONDON BY | 458 |
| CONTENTS. | 458 |
| EXCURSIONS | 459 |
| DIRECTIONS AND INFORMATION FOR THE TOURIST. | 459 |
| CONISTON | 463 |
| ULPHA KIRK | 463 |
| BUTTERMERE AND CRUMMOCK | 466 |
| WASTDALE | 466 |
| DESCRIPTION OF THE SCENERY OF THE LAKES. | 470 |
| SECTION SECOND. | 488 |
| SECTION THIRD. | 499 |
| MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS. | 513 |
| EXCURSIONS TO THE TOP OF SCAWFELL AND ON THE BANKS OF ULSWATER. | 524 |
| ODE. | 534 |
| ITINERARY OF THE LAKES, FOR THE USE OF TOURISTS. | 535 |
| KENDAL AND WINDERMERE RAILWAY. | 539 |
| SONNET ON THE PROJECTED KENDAL AND WINDERMERE RAILWAY. | 539 |
| NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. | 552 |
| II. Upon Epitaphs. | 553 |
| 554 |
| IV. DESCRIPTIVE. | 556 |
| END OF VOL. II. | 557 |
| CONTENTS OF VOL. III. | 557 |
| CRITICAL AND ETHICAL. | 558 |
| I. Poems written in Youth. | 558 |
| III. Poems founded on the Affections. | 558 |
| V. Poems of the Fancy. | 559 |
| VII. Miscellaneous Sonnets: Part I. | 560 |
| Part II. | 560 |
| Part III. | 560 |
| VIII. Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803. | 560 |
| IX. Memorials of a Second Tour in Scotland, 1814. | 560 |
| X. Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty. | 560 |
| XII. Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837. | 561 |
| XIII. The River Duddon, &c. | 561 |
| XV. Yarrow Revisited, &c. | 562 |
| XVII. Poems composed in Tour of 1833. | 562 |
| XIX. Sonnets dedicated to Liberty. | 563 |
| XXI. Inscriptions. | 563 |
| 563 |
| XXIV. Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces. | 563 |
| XXV. The Excursion. | 563 |
| II. LETTERS AND EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS. | 563 |
| CRITICAL AND ETHICAL. | 565 |
| I. POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH. | 566 |
| FOOT-NOTES. | 567 |
| II. POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF CHILDHOOD. | 574 |
| III. POEMS FOUNDED ON THE AFFECTIONS. | 579 |
| IV. POEMS ON THE NAMING OF PLACES. | 583 |
| V. POEMS OF THE FANCY. | 584 |
| VI. POEMS OF THE IMAGINATION. | 588 |
| VII. MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS. | 599 |
| PART I. | 599 |
| PART II. | 601 |
| PART III | 603 |
| VIII. MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN SCOTLAND, 1803. | 607 |
| IX. MEMORIALS OF A SECOND TOUR IN SCOTLAND, 1814. | 609 |
| X. POEMS DEDICATED TO NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE AND LIBERTY. | 610 |
| XI. MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820. | 614 |
| XII. MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN ITALY, 1837. | 619 |
| XIII. THE RIVER DUDDON: A SERIES OF SONNETS. | 629 |
| ADVERTISEMENT. | 648 |
| XIV. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS. | 652 |
| ADVERTISEMENT. | 652 |
| 654 |
| PART II. TO THE CLOSE OF THE TROUBLES IN THE REIGN OF CHARLES I. | 657 |
| PART III. FROM THE RESTORATION TO THE PRESENT TIME. | 658 |
| XV. ‘YARROW REVISITED,’ AND OTHER POEMS. | 660 |
| XVI. EVENING VOLUNTARIES. | 665 |
| XVII. POEMS COMPOSED OR SUGGESTED DURING A TOUR IN THE SUMMER OF 1833. | 667 |
| XVIII. POEMS OF SENTIMENT AND REFLECTION. | 674 |
| XIX. SONNETS DEDICATED TO LIBERTY AND ORDER. | 685 |
| XX. MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. | 686 |
| XXI. INSCRIPTIONS. | 692 |
| XXII. SELECTIONS FROM CHAUCER MODERNISED. | 693 |
| XXIII. POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF OLD AGE. | 694 |
| XXIV. EPITAPHS AND ELEGIAC PIECES. | 695 |
| XXV. ‘THE EXCURSION.’ | 701 |
| II. LETTERS AND EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS. | 718 |
| LETTER TO MISS WORDSWORTH, SEPT. 6 1790. | 722 |
| LETTER TO WRANGHAM. | 731 |
| LETTER TO COLERIDGE (1799): JOURNEY FROM SOCKBURN TO GRASMERE. | 733 |
| LETTER TO SIR GEORGE H. BEAUMONT, BART. | 739 |
| LETTER TO SIR WALTER SCOTT.[55] | 744 |
| LETTER TO REV. FRANCIS WRANGHAM, HUNMANBY, NEAR BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. | 746 |
| LETTER TO LORD LONSDALE. | 749 |
| LETTER TO SOUTHEY. | 750 |
| LETTER TO PROFESSOR HAMILTON, OBSERVATORY, DUBLIN. | 751 |
| LETTER TO ARCHDEACON WRANGHAM. | 752 |
| TO ARCHDEACON WRANGHAM. | 754 |
| LETTER TO ROBERT SOUTHEY, ESQ. | 754 |
| LETTER TO A FRIEND, 1821. | 756 |
| LETTER TO BERNARD BARTON. | 758 |
| LETTER TO ROBERT SOUTHEY. | 759 |
| LETTER TO ROBERT SOUTHEY. | 760 |
| TRANSLATION OF PART OF THE FIRST BOOK OF THE AENEID.[81] | 761 |
| LETTER TO A NEPHEW. | 767 |
| LETTER TO G. HUNTLY GORDON, ESQ. | 769 |
| LETTER TO THE EARL OF LONSDALE. | 770 |
| LETTER TO G. HUNTLY GORDON, ESQ. | 770 |
| LETTER TO MOXON. | 773 |
| LETTER TO W.R. HAMILTON, ESQ., OBSERVATORY, NEAR DUBLIN. | 774 |
| LETTER TO REV. ALEXANDER DYCE. | 776 |
| LETTER TO PROFESSOR HAMILTON, OBSERVATORY, DUBLIN. | 776 |
| LETTER TO REV. ALEXANDER DYCE. | 778 |
| LETTER TO REV. ALEXANDER DYCE. | 779 |
| LETTER TO G. HUNTLY GORDON, ESQ. | 782 |
| LETTER TO REV. ALEXANDER DYCE. | 782 |
| LETTER TO LADY FREDERICK BENTINCK. | 790 |
| LETTER TO REV. J.K. MILLER, VICAR OF WALKERINGHAM. | 791 |
| LETTER TO PROFESSOR HAMILTON, DUBLIN. | 793 |
| LETTER TO THE REV. DR. WORDSWORTH. | 796 |
| LETTER TO PROFESSOR HAMILTON, DUBLIN. | 796 |
| LETTER TO MRS. HEMANS. | 798 |
| LETTER TO A NEPHEW. | 799 |
| LETTER TO THE REV. ALEXANDER DYCE. | 800 |
| LETTER TO THE REV. ALEXANDER DYCE. | 800 |
| LETTER TO PROFESSOR HAMILTON, OF DUBLIN. | 801 |
| LETTER TO CHARLES LAMB, ESQ. | 802 |
| LETTER TO THE REV. ALEXANDER DYCE. | 803 |
| LETTER TO THE REV. ALEXANDER DYCE. | 804 |
| LETTER TO E. MOXON, ESQ. | 806 |
| LETTER TO MRS. HEMANS. | 807 |
| LETTER TO LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR WM. M. GOMM. | 808 |
| LETTER TO MRS. HEMANS. | 808 |
| LETTER TO THE VENERABLE ARCHDEACON WRANGHAM. | 809 |
| LETTER TO THE REV. ROBERT MONTGOMERY. | 810 |
| LETTER TO JAMES STANGER, ESQ. | 811 |
| LETTER TO EDWARD QUILLINAN, ESQ. | 813 |
| LETTER TO THE EARL OF LONSDALE. | 814 |
| LETTER TO THE REV. ALEXANDER DYCE. | 815 |
| LETTER TO SIR WILLIAM R. HAMILTON. | 816 |
| LETTER TO SIR WILLIAM R. HAMILTON. | 817 |
| LETTER TO HENRY REED, ESQ., PHILADELPHIA. | 820 |
| LETTER TO JOHN PEACE, ESQ., CITY LIBRARY, BRISTOL. | 821 |
| LETTER TO EDWARD MOXON, ESQ. | 822 |
| LETTER TO LADY FREDERICK BENTINCK. | 822 |
| LETTER TO THE REV. THE MASTER OF TRINITY COLLEGE. CAMBRIDGE. | 822 |
| LETTER TO THE REV. H. (AFTERWARDS DEAN) ALFORD. | 824 |
| LETTER TO LADY FREDERICK BENTINCK. | 825 |
| LETTER TO THE REV. T. BOYLES MURRAY. | 826 |
| LETTER TO LADY FREDERICK BENTINCK. | 827 |
| LETTER TO LADY FREDERICK BENTINCK. | 828 |
| LETTER TO HENRY REED, ESQ., PHILADELPHIA. | 828 |
| LETTER TO JOHN PEACE, ESQ. | 830 |
| LETTER TO JOHN PEACE, ESQ. | 832 |
| LETTER TO A NEPHEW. | 832 |
| LETTER TO LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR WM. GOMM.[190] | 833 |
| LETTER TO THE RIGHT HON. EARL DE LA WARR, LORD CHAMBERLAIN. | 835 |
| LETTER TO SIR W.R. HAMILTON, DUBLIN. | 838 |
| LETTER TO PROFESSOR REED. | 838 |
| LETTER TO JOSEPH COTTLE, ESQ. | 839 |
| LETTER TO THE REV. (AFTERWARDS DEAN) HENRY ALFORD.[199] | 839 |
| LETTER TO LADY FREDERICK BENTINCK. | 840 |
| LETTER TO PROFESSOR REED. | 841 |
| LETTER TO BASIL MONTAGU, ESQ. | 842 |
| LETTER TO PROFESSOR REED. | 843 |
| LETTER TO PROFESSOR REED. | 843 |
| LETTER TO PROFESSOR REED. | 846 |
| LETTER TO A NEPHEW. | 847 |
| LETTER TO JOSEPH COTTLE, ESQ. | 848 |
| LETTER TO PROFESSOR REED. | 849 |
| LETTER TO PROFESSOR REED. | 850 |
| III. CONVERSATIONS AND PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF WORDSWORTH. | 853 |
| DUDDON EXCURSION | 889 |
| PART I. | 920 |
| PART II. | 927 |
| NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. | 935 |
| INDEX. | 941 |
| A. | 941 |
| B. | 942 |
| C. | 943 |
| D. | 944 |
| E. | 945 |
| F. | 945 |
| G. | 946 |
| H. | 946 |
| I. | 946 |
| J. | 946 |
| K. | 947 |
| L. | 947 |
| M. | 947 |
| N. | 948 |
| P. | 948 |
| Q. | 949 |
| R. | 949 |
| S. | 950 |
| T. | 950 |
| U. | 951 |
| V. | 951 |
| W. | 951 |
| Y. | 951 |
| Z. | 951 |
| FINIS. | 951 |
