The Prose Works of William Wordsworth - For the First Time Collected, With Additions from - Unpublished Manuscripts. In Three Volumes. by William Wordsworth
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prejudices of an earlier day against the giving of letters to the world;
but none the less are his letters informed with his intellect and meditative thoughtfulness and exquisiteness of feeling. It is earnestly to be hoped that one of the Family who is admirably qualified for the task of love will address himself to write adequately and confidingly the Life of his immortal relative; and toward this every one possessed of anything in the handwriting or from the mind of WORDSWORTH may be appealed to for co-operation. The 'Memoirs' of the (now) Bishop of Lincoln, within its own limits, was a great gift; but it is avowedly not a 'Life,' and _the world wants a Life_. Collation of the originals of these letters has restored sentences and words and things of the most characteristic kind. Very gross mistakes have also been corrected.[11] [11] It may be well to point out here specially a mistake in heading two of the WORDSWORTH letters to Sir W.R. HAMILTON: 'Royal Dublin Society,' instead of 'Royal Irish Academy' (see vol. iii. pp. 350 and 352); also that at p. 394 'of the' has slipped in from the first 'of the,' and so now reads 'Of the Heresiarch of the Church of Rome,' for 'The Heresiarch Church,' as in the body of the letter. III. _Conversations and Personal Reminiscences of Wordsworth_. From 'Satyrane's Letters;' Klopstock. Personal Reminiscences of the Hon. Mr. Justice Coleridge. Recollections of a Tour in Italy with Wordsworth. By H.C. Robinson. Reminiscences of Lady Richardson and Mrs. Davy. |
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