Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. 1 of 7
This edition aims at such a presentation of Wordsworth's Poetical Works as Wordsworth himself would have approved. It gives Wordsworth's latest text; (2) in Wordsworth's own arrangement (3) all Wordsworth's printed notes; (43) the notes dictated by Wordsworth to Miss Fenwick - here signed I. (4) notes by the present Editor, dealing with (a) the dates of composition and publication of each poem, (i?) the occasion, where that can be asoer tained, (c) and recording a large selection from the various readings of editions prior to 1849 50; (5) a chronological table; (6) an Appendix of Poems by Wordsworth not included in his last edition (7) a reprint of the two poems of 1793, An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches as originally published; (8) abiblio graphy; (9) a brief memoir.
I. Text - The text is that of 1849-50. You know, Wordsworth wrote to Dyce in 1880.
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