[The Prose Works of William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth]@TWC D-Link bookThe Prose Works of William Wordsworth PREFACE 25/1026
The two additional Papers--only briefly quoted from in the 'Memoirs' (c.
xxx. vol.i.)--were also intended for 'The Friend,' had COLERIDGE succeeded in his announced arrangement of principles.
These additional papers are in every respect equal to the first, with Wordsworthian touches and turns in his cunningest faculty.
They are faithfully given from the MSS. III.
ESSAYS, LETTERS, AND NOTES ELUCIDATORY AND CONFIRMATORY OF THE POEMS, 1798-1835. (_a_) Of the Principles of Poetry and the 'Lyrical Ballads' (1798-1802.) (_b_) Of Poetic Diction. (_c_) Poetry as a Study (1815). (_d_) Of Poetry as Observation and Description, and Dedication of 1815. (_e_) Of 'The Excursion:' Preface. (_f_) Letters to Sir George and Lady Beaumont and others on the Poems and related Subjects. (_g_) 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. (_a_) to (_e_) form appendices to the early and later editions of the Poems, and created an epoch in literary criticism.
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