No More Learning

With whom you parted? 1842. ]


[Variant 4:

1845.

. . . o'er . . . 1842. ]


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FOOTNOTES ON THE TEXT


[Footnote A: He doubtless refers to the lines (Act iii. l. 405) "Action
is transitory--a step, a blow," etc. , which followed the Dedication of
'The White Doe of Rylstone' in the edition of 1836. --Ed.
]


[Footnote B: Note prefixed to the edition of 1842. --Ed. ]


[Footnote C: Note appended to the edition of 1842. --Ed. ]





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THE REVERIE OF POOR SUSAN


Composed 1797. --Published 1800.


[Written 1801 or 1802. This arose out of my observations of the
affecting music of these birds, hanging in this way in the London
streets during the freshness and stillness of the spring morning. --I.
F. ]

Placed by Wordsworth among his "Poems of the Imagination. "--Ed.

The preceding Fenwick note to this poem is manifestly inaccurate as to
date, since the poem is printed in the "Lyrical Ballads" of 1800. In the
edition of 1836 the date of composition is given as 1797, and this date
is followed by Mr. Carter, the editor of 1857. Miss Wordsworth's Journal
gives no date; and, as the Fenwick note is certainly incorrect--and the
poem must have been written before the edition of 1800 came out--it
seems best to trust to the date sanctioned by Wordsworth himself in
1836, and followed by his literary executor in 1857.