_Inconsistent Opinions on his Poems_.
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 'HARMONIES OF CRITICISM.' | |---------------------------------------|------------------------------------------| | '_Nutting_.' | '_Nutting_.' | |Mr.C.W.: | 'Mr.S.: | |'Worth its weight in gold.' | 'Can make neither head nor tail of it.'| | | | | '_Joanna_.' | '_Joanna_.' | | | | |Mr.J.W.: | Mr.S.: | |'The finest poem of its | | |length you have written.' | 'Can make nothing of it.' | | | | | '_Poet's Epitaph_.' | '_Poet's Epitaph_.' | | | | |Mr.Charles Lamb: | Mr.S.: | |'The latter part preeminently | | |good, and your own.' | 'The latter part very ill written.

| | | | | '_Cumberland Beggar_.' | '_Cumberland Beggar_.' | |Mr.J.W.: | Mr.Charles Lamb: | |'Everybody seems delighted.' | 'You seem to presume your readers | | | are stupid: the instructions too | | | direct.' | | | | | '_Idiot Boy_.' | '_Idiot Boy_.' | |Mr.J.W.: | Mr.S.: | |'A lady, a friend of mine, could | 'Almost thrown by it into a fit | |talk of nothing else: this, of all the | with disgust; _cannot read it_!' | |poems, her delight.' | | | | | |But here comes the waggon | | | | W.W.[48] | |---------------------------------------|------------------------------------------| 26.

_On his Scottish Tour_.
TO SCOTT.
Grasmere, Oct.16.

1803.
'We had a delightful journey home, delightful weather, and a sweet country to travel through.

We reached our little cottage in high spirits, and thankful to God for all His bounties.