_Two Gentlemen of Verona_, 124. _Ugly Duckling, The_, 213; compared with _The Snow-Image_, 232. Ugolino, Count, 76. _Vicar of Wakefield, The_, 3, 137-140, 142. _Village Blacksmith, The_, 221. Virgil, contrasted with Homer, 31, 32; his treatment of childhood, 32. Virgilia, 118, 119. Volumnia, 118, 119. _We are Seven_, 168-224. _Weariness_, 220, 221. Whittier, John Greenleaf, childhood in the writings of, 218, 219. _Wonder-Book_, Hawthorne’s, 226, 227, 232. Wordsworth, William, the creator of Alice Fell and Lucy Gray, 3; quoted, 3; the ridicule of his _Lyrical Ballads_, 145; his defensive Preface, 145-147; his apology for _Alice Fell_, 147, 148; his poem of _Lucy Gray_, 148, 149; his poem of _The Pet Lamb_, 149, 150; his treatment of incidents of childhood, 150; the first to treat the child as an individual, 151; his draft on his own experience, 152; his poetic interpretation of childhood, 153-156; his ode, _Intimations of Immortality_, 156, 157; his treatment of death, 168; his _We are Seven_ contrasted with _A Story of the Fire_, 224, 225. _Wreck of the Hesperus, The_, 221. Zarephath, the widow of, 42. Zechariah, quoted, 45.