Cradock has suggested to me the
probable
course of that
morning walk.
morning walk.
William Wordsworth
Tyson's cottage in Wordsworth's time (see a
previous note), told me that a tall ash tree grew on the proper right
front of the cottage, where an outhouse is now built. If this be so,
Wordsworth's bedroom must have been that on the proper left, with the
smaller of the two windows. The cottage faces nearly south-west. In the
upper flat there are two bedrooms to the front, with oak flooring, one
of which must have been Wordsworth's. See Note II. (p. 386) in Appendix
to this volume. --Ed. ]
[Footnote R: In one of the small mountain farm-houses near
Hawkshead. --Ed. ]
[Footnote S: Compare 'Paradise Lost', book viii. l. 528:
'Walks, and the melody of birds. '
Ed. ]
[Footnote T: Dr.
Cradock has suggested to me the probable course of that
morning walk.
"All that can be safely said as to the course of that memorable
morning walk is that, in that neighbourhood, a view of the sea can
only be obtained at a considerable elevation; also that if the words
'in _front_ the sea lay laughing' are to be taken as rigidly exact,
the poet's progress towards Hawkshead must have been in a direction
mainly southerly, and therefore from the country north of that place.
These and all other conditions of the description are answered in
several parts of the range of hills lying between Elterwater and
Hawkshead. "
See Appendix, Note III. p. 389. --Ed. ]
[Footnote U: Compare the sixth line of the poem, beginning
'This Lawn, a carpet all alive. '
(1829. ) And Horace, 'Epistolae', lib. i. ep. xi. l. 28:
'Strenua nos exercet inertia. '
Ed.
previous note), told me that a tall ash tree grew on the proper right
front of the cottage, where an outhouse is now built. If this be so,
Wordsworth's bedroom must have been that on the proper left, with the
smaller of the two windows. The cottage faces nearly south-west. In the
upper flat there are two bedrooms to the front, with oak flooring, one
of which must have been Wordsworth's. See Note II. (p. 386) in Appendix
to this volume. --Ed. ]
[Footnote R: In one of the small mountain farm-houses near
Hawkshead. --Ed. ]
[Footnote S: Compare 'Paradise Lost', book viii. l. 528:
'Walks, and the melody of birds. '
Ed. ]
[Footnote T: Dr.
Cradock has suggested to me the probable course of that
morning walk.
"All that can be safely said as to the course of that memorable
morning walk is that, in that neighbourhood, a view of the sea can
only be obtained at a considerable elevation; also that if the words
'in _front_ the sea lay laughing' are to be taken as rigidly exact,
the poet's progress towards Hawkshead must have been in a direction
mainly southerly, and therefore from the country north of that place.
These and all other conditions of the description are answered in
several parts of the range of hills lying between Elterwater and
Hawkshead. "
See Appendix, Note III. p. 389. --Ed. ]
[Footnote U: Compare the sixth line of the poem, beginning
'This Lawn, a carpet all alive. '
(1829. ) And Horace, 'Epistolae', lib. i. ep. xi. l. 28:
'Strenua nos exercet inertia. '
Ed.
