&c., W.W.[75] [75] _Memoirs_, ii.

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45.

_Of his Poems and others_.
LETTER TO BERNARD BARTON.
Rydal Mount, near Ambleside, Jan.12.

1816.
DEAR SIR, Though my sister, during my absence, has returned thanks in my name for the verses which you have done me the honour of addressing to me, and for the obliging letter which accompanies them, I feel it incumbent on me, on my return home, to write a few words to the same purpose, with my own hand.
It is always a satisfaction to me to learn that I have given pleasure upon _rational_ grounds; and I have nothing to object to your poetical panegyric but the occasion which called it forth.

An admirer of my works, zealous as you have declared yourself to be, condescends too much when he gives way to an impulse proceeding from the -- --, or indeed from any other Review.