, or
Charles Lamb, would have written, as we do, "My dear Jones"; but
Wordsworth addressed his friend as "Dear Sir," and
described
his sister
as "a Young Lady," and as a "Female Friend.
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. 1836.]
[Sub-Variant 7: This couplet was withdrawn in 1827.]
[Sub-Variant 8:
Behind the hill ... 1836.]
[Sub-Variant 9:
Near and yet nearer, from the piny gulf
Howls, by the darkness vexed, the famished wolf, 1836.]
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FOOTNOTES
[Footnote A: See note to the "Juvenile Pieces" in the edition of 1836
(p. 1).--Ed.]
[Footnote B: There is something characteristic in Wordsworth's
addressing an intimate travelling companion in this way. S. T. C.
, or
Charles Lamb, would have written, as we do, "My dear Jones"; but
Wordsworth addressed his friend as "Dear Sir," and
described
his sister
as "a Young Lady," and as a "Female Friend.
"--Ed.]
[Footnote C: In a small pocket copy of the 'Orlando Furioso' of
Ariosto--now in the possession of the poet's grandson, Mr. Gordon
Wordsworth--of which the title-page is torn away, the following is
written on the first page, "My companion in the Alps with Jones. W.
Wordsworth:" also "W. W. to D. W." (He had given it to his sister
Dorothy.) On the last page is written, "I carried this Book with me in
my pedestrian tour in the Alps with Jones. W. Wordsworth." Dorothy
Wordsworth gave this interesting relic to Miss Quillinan, from whose
library it passed to that of its present owner.--Ed.]
[Footnote D: By an evident error, corrected in the first reprint of this
edition (1840).
