The Fenwick Notes of William Wordsworth

Jared Curtis

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A revised and corrected edition of an indispensable reference work for all Romantic scholars.

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• Literary Criticism
• European

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• Publié par: Humanities eBooks
• Date de parution: 11 janvier 2021
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• EAN13: 9781847600042
• Langue: English
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The Fenwick Notes of William Wordsworth

edited by Jared Curtis

a revised electronic edition

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© Jared Curtis, 2007

First published in 1993 by Bristol Classical Press, a division of Gerald Duck- worth & Co. Ltd. Revised electrnic edition published in 2007 byHumanities- Ebooks.co.uk,Tirril Hall, Tirril, Penrith CA10 2JE

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Contents

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction About te Text THE FENWICK NOTES Illustration [Notebook 57]: Manuscript Notes Editor’s Notes Glossary of Selected Persons and Places Index and Recommended Searc Terms Index of Wordswort’s Writings

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4 7 1 9 37 93 [foot of eac page] 17 384 395 413

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgments

To Stepen Gill I owe te idea for tis book and te encouragement to proceed wit it. He suggested to me te notion, as e put it later in is biograpy (A LifeWilliam Wordswort: [Oxford, 1989]), tat we are unfortunate in lacking access to te Fenwick Notes except in piece- meal fasion ‘amongst te mass of oter notes tat accompany scolarly texts on te poems’. Te notes, e urged, ‘are best read entire, not as a source of information merely, but as a document in Wordswort’s autobiograpy’ (pp. 407–8). Te ‘real value’ of te Fenwick Notes is not te details and opinions Wordswort associated wit single poems but ‘te insigt provided by te wole body of te notes into Wordswort’s preoccupation and fundamental concern as a poet wit specific places, wit te lives of lowly people, wit istory, and wit te relation between politics, individual morality, and religion, and into is struggle to integrate is desire to celebrate te local and actual wit is reluctance “to submit te poetic spirit to te cains of fact and real circumstance” (note toWalk)’.An Evening ‘Tey matter’, Gill argued persuasively, ‘because tey are a great poet’s last attempt at wat ad been is lifelong endeavour—to record, interpret, and armonize disparate experience’ (pp. 408–9). For te first time since te appearance of te tird volume of Alexander Grosart’s edition of te prose in 1876 we ave te opportunity in tis edition to see te Fenwick Notes wole. It is a pleasure to acknowledge te many oters wo lent teir minds and ands to tis project. Student assistants at Simon Fraser University wo worked on several pases of it are Janet Bergunder, Idamay Curtis, Simi Desor, Manuela Myers-Fedorak, Sukesi Kamra, Cam Martin,

Acknowledgments 

Daniel Reid, and Nellie Villegas. For knowledge generously sared I owe a debt of gratitude to Alan G. Hill, editor of te Wordswort correspondence, and to tose scolars wo ave publised or are preparing volumes in te Cornell Wordswort series, but especially Paul F. Betz, James A. Butler, Karen Green, Geoffrey Jackson, Micael C. Jaye, te late Carl H. Ketcam, Carol Landon, Stepen M. Parris, and Mark L. Reed, bot for teir publised work and for contributions beyond te scolarsip presented in teir own volumes. I owe tanks as well to tose wo ave assisted me wit te volume of ‘Late Poems’ in tis series, Jeffrey C. Robinson, Jill Heydt-Stevenson, and Apryl Denny. I ave received financial support for tis project from te Social Sciences and Humanities Researc Council of Canada and from te National Endowment for te Humanities, an independent U.S. federal agency. I am especially pleased to acknowledge te award of a Visiting Fellowsip by te Huntington Library, San Marino, California, wic made it possible for me to work in tat splendid library wit te assistance of its elpful staff for a period of two monts. To te late Robert Woof, te late Jonatan Wordswort, and acting members of te Wordswort Trust I owe te opportunity to work in te Wordswort Library and Museum in Grasmere and te permission of te Trust to publis my transcription of te Fenwick Notes manuscript. I am grateful to te editors ofTexte: Revue de Critique et de Teorie Litterairefor permission to reprint material from my article cited in te Introduction, note 8. Completing tis project witout te love, support, and encouragement of my wife Ida is unimaginable. Jared Curtis Simon Fraser University, 199

Acknowledgments 

In revising te text I ave benefitted from suggestions made by elpful readers of te first edition. Some canges in te index and in styling were dictated by te requirements of electronic publication. Te illustration of page 160 and te facing page of te Fenwick Notes manuscript as been included in tis edition courtesy of Dove Cottage, Te Wordswort Trust. Seattle, Wasington, 007

Abbreviations

A Life

Cronology: EY

Cronology: MY

CWjr

DQ Dora W DW EQ EY

Exc

Grasmere Journals

Abbreviations

Stepen Gill,A LifeWilliam Wordswort, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989) Mark L. Reed,Wordswort: he Cronology of he Early Years, 10–199(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967) Mark L. Reed,Wordswort: he Cronology of he Middle Years, 1800–181(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975) Cristoper Wordswort, Jr, Wordswort’s nepew and autor ofMemoirs(q.v.) Dora (Wordswort) Quillinan Dora Wordswort Doroty Wordswort Edward Quillinan he Letters of William and Doroty Wordswort: he Early Years, 18–180, ed. Ernest de Selincourt (nd edn, rev. Cester L. Saver; Oxford, 1967) William Wordswort,he Excursion, ed. Sally Busell, James A. Butler, and Micael C. Jaye, wit te assistance of David García (Itaca: Cornell University Press, 007) Doroty Wordswort,he Grasmere Journals, ed. Pamela Woof (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991)

H at G

Hayden,Europe I

Hayden,Europe II

Hayden,Scotland

Hayden,Tour

Hayden,Wales

HCR HCR Correspondence

HCR Books

HCR Diary

Abbreviations 8

Home at Grasmere, Part First, Book First, of ‘he Recluse’ by William Wordswort, ed. Bet Darlington (Itaca: Cornell University Press, 1977) Donald E. Hayden,Wordswort’s Travels in Europe I(Tulsa, Oklaoma: he University of Tulsa Monograp Series, no. , 1988) Donald E. Hayden,Wordswort’s Travels in Europe II(Tulsa: he University of Tulsa Monograp Series, no. 3, 1988) Donald E. Hayden,Wordswort’s Travels in Scotland(Tulsa: he University of Tulsa Monograp Series, no. 1, 1985) Donald E. Hayden,Wordswort’s Walking Tour of 190(Tulsa: he University of Tulsa Monograp Series, no. 19, 1983) Donald E. Hayden,Wordswort’s Travels in Wales and Ireland and Ireland(Tulsa: he University of Tulsa Monograp Series, no. 0, 1985) Henry Crabb Robinson he Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson wit te Wordswort Circle, ed. Edit J. Morley ( vols; Oxford, 197) Henry Crabb Robinson on Books and teir Writers, ed. Edit J. Morley (3 vols; London, 1838; rpt. New York,1967) Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson, Barrister-at-Law, F.SA.,

IF JC Journals,I, II

LB, 19–1800

Levin

LY,I–IV

Memoirs

Moorman

MW MWL

MY,I, II

Abbreviations 9

ed. homas Sadler ( vols, 3rd edn; London and New York, 187) Isabella Fenwick Jon Carter, Wordswort’s secretary Journals of Doroty Wordswort, ed. Ernest de Selincourt ( vols; London, 1959) ‘he Lyrical Ballads,’ and Oter Poems, 19– 1800, by William Wordswort and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. James Butler and Karen Green (Itaca: Cornell University Press, 199) Susan Levin,andDoroty Wordswort Romanticism(New Brunswick and London: Rutgers, he State University, 1987) he Letters of William and Doroty Wordswort: he Later Years,181–1853, ed. Ernest de Selincourt (nd edn; rev., arranged, and ed. Alan G. Hill, Oxford, 1978, 1979, 198, 1988) Cristoper Wordswort, Jr,he Memoirs of William Wordswort( vols; London: Moxon, 1850) Mary Moorman,William Wordswort: A Biograpy,  vols. (London: Oxford University ress, 1968) Mary Wordswort he Letters of Mary Wordswort 1800–18, ed. Mary E. Burton (Oxford, 1958) he Letters of William and Doroty Wordswort: he Middle Years, 180–1820,

Notebook N&Q OED Poems, 18–19

Poems, 1800–180

Poems, 180–1820

Poems, 1821–180

Prose

PW

PW(1841)

Abbreviations 10

ed. Ernest de Selincourt ( vols, nd edn; Part I, 1806–11, rev. Mary Moorman, Oxford, 1969; Part II, 181–0, rev. Mary Moorman and Alan G. Hill, Oxford, 1970) he Fenwick Note notebook, DC MS. 153 Notes and Queries(London) Oxford Englis Dictionary William Wordswort,Early Poems and Fragments, 18–19, ed. Carol Landon and Jared Curtis (Itaca: Cornell University Press, 1997) William Wordswort,‘Poems, in Two Volumes,’ and Oter Poems, 1800–180,ed. Jared Curtis (Itaca: Cornell University Press, 1983) William Wordswort,Sorter Poems, 180– 1820, ed. Carl Ketcam (Itaca: Cornell University Press, 1989) William Wordswort,Last Poems, 1821– 180, ed. Jared Curtis, wit April Denny- Ferris and Jill Heydt-Stevenson (Itaca: Cornell University Press, 1999) he Prose Works of William Wordswort, ed. W. J. B. Owen and Jane Smyser (3 vols; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974) he Poetical Works of William Wordswort, ed. E. de Selincourt and Helen Darbisire (5 vols; Oxford, 1940–9) William Wordswort,he Poetical Works(6 vols; London, 1841)