[Illustration: Cover] LAKELAND ONCE MORE Mere under mountain lone, like a moat under lowering ramparts; Garrulous petulant beck, sinister laughterless tarn; Haunt of the vagabond feet of my fancy for ever reverting, Haunt of this vagabond heart, Cumbrian valleys and fells; You that enchant all ears with the manifold tones of silence, You that around me, in youth, magical filaments wove; You were my earliest possession, and when shall its fealty falter? Ah, when Helvellyn is low! ah, when Winander is dry! WILLIAM WATSON. [Frontispiece: WINDERMERE FROM WANSFELL.] Quotation & Picture Series THE ENGLISH LAKE DISTRICT EDITED BY J. B. REYNOLDS, B.A A. & C. BLACK, LTD. 4, 5 & 6 SOHO SQUARE, LONDON 1915 My thanks are due to the following authors and publishers who have kindly granted permission for the inclusion of copyright poems and extracts: to Mr William Watson, for extracts from "Wordsworth's Grave" and "Lakeland Once More"; to Messrs Macmillan & Co., Ltd., for lines by Matthew Arnold on "Wordsworth's Grave" and an extract from his poem entitled "Resignation"; to the Ruskin Literary Trustees and their publishers, Messrs George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., for two extracts from "Modern Painters"; to Mrs W. G. Collingwood and Messrs Methuen & Co., Ltd., for an extract from "The Life of John Ruskin"; to Mrs F. W. H. Myers and Messrs Longmans, Green & Co., for a poem from "Fragments of Prose and Poetry" by F. W. H. Myers; and also to Messrs Longmans, Green & Co., for an extract from the "Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey" by the Rev. C. Southey. J. B. R. LIST OF PICTURES Windermere from Wansfell . . . . . . _Frontispiece_ Dove Cottage, Grasmere Grasmere--Evening Sun Grasmere Church Stepping Stones, Far Easedale, Grasmere Dungeon Ghyll Force Blea Tarn and Langdale Pikes Brantwood, Coniston Lake Ullswater from Gowbarrow Park Thirlmere and Helvellyn Raven Crag, Thirlmere Derwentwater from Castle Head Lodore and Derwentwater Derwentwater and Bassenthwaite Lake Wastwater and Scawfell Silvery Duddon DOVE COTTAGE This was the home of Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy from December 1799 to May 1808. When Wordsworth left the cottage for two months in 1802 on the occasion of his honeymoon he wrote "A Farewell," which begins:-- "Farewell, thou little nook of mountain ground, Thou rocky corner in the lowest stair Of that magnificent temple which doth bound One side of our whole vale with grandeur rare; Sweet garden-orchard, eminently fair, The lovliest spot that man hath ever found, Farewell!--we leave thee to Heaven's peaceful care, Thee, and the Cottage which thou dost surround. De Quincey also lived at Dove Cottage from 1809-1816. He has described it as follows:--