One thing more I will say, that I do not know where old Wordsworth condemned Crabbe as un-poetical (except in the truly 'priggish' candle case) though I doubt not that Mr. Woodberry does know. We all know that of Crabbe's 'Village' one passage was one of the first that struck young Wordsworth: and when Crabbe's son was editing his Father's Poems in 1834, old Wordsworth wrote to him that, because of their combined Truth and Poetry, those Poems would last as long at least as any that had been written since, including Wordsworth's own. And Wordsworth was too honest, as well as too exclusive, to write so much even to a Son of the dead Poet, without meaning all he said. I should not have written all this were it not that I think so much of Mr. Woodberry's Paper; but I doubt I could not persuade him to think more of my old Man than he sees good to think for himself. I rejoice that he thinks even so well of the Poet: even if his modified Praise does not induce others to try and think likewise. The verses he quotes-- Where is that virtue which the generous boy, etc. {283} made my heart glow--yes, even out at my Eyes--though so familiar to me. Only in my private Copy, instead of When Vice had triumph--_who his tear bestow'd_ On injured merit-- in place of that '_bestowed Tear_,' I cannot help reading When Vice and Insolence in triumph rode, etc. which is, of course, only for myself, and you, it seems: for I never mentioned that, and some scores of such impudencies. _To R. C. Trench_. LITTLE GRANGE, WOODBRIDGE. _May_ 9/80. MY DEAR LORD,