[467] In this edition the Poems were arranged for the first time in the chronological order of composition; the changes of text, in the successive editions, were given in footnotes, with the dates of these changes; many new readings, or suggested changes of text--which were written by the Poet on the margins of a copy of the edition of 1836-37, kept at Rydal Mount, and afterwards in the possession of Lord Coleridge--were added; all the Fenwick notes were printed as Prefatory notes; Topographical notes--containing allusions to localities in the English Lake District, and elsewhere--were given; several Poems and Fragments hitherto unpublished were printed; a Bibliography of the Poems, and of editions published in England and America from 1793 to 1850 was added. Etchings of localities associated with the Poet, from drawings by Mr. MacWhirter, were given as frontispieces to Volumes I., II., III., IV., V., VI., and VII. The text adopted was Wordsworth’s final text of 1849-50.--ED. [468] It contains an engraving of Rydal Mount on the fly-leaf.--ED. [469] This volume is a reprint of Wordsworth’s own edition of his Sonnets, published in 1838, with the addition of Archbishop Trench’s _History of the English Sonnet_.--ED. [470] This is one of the volumes of _The Canterbury Poets_. It is only a selection, though described on the title as “The Poetical Works.”--ED. [471] This volume contains fifty-five engravings from drawings by Harry Goodwin of scenes in the English Lake District associated with Wordsworth, with the poems, or portions of poems, referring to the places.--ED. [472] The poems are arranged in chronological order of composition; and there is, as frontispiece, an etched portrait of the Poet from a miniature by Margaret Gillies in the possession of Sir Henry Doulton. Amongst those who contributed to it were Robert Browning, James Russell Lowell, the late Lord Selborne, Mr. R. H. Hutton, the Dean of Salisbury, the late Lord Coleridge, the Rev. Stopford Brooke, Mr. Aubrey de Vere, the late Lord Houghton, Canon Rawnsley, the late Principals Shairp and Greenwood and Professor Veitch, Mr. Spence Watson, Mr. Rix, Mr. Heard, Mr. Cotterill, the late Bishop Wordsworth of St. Andrews, and the Editor.--ED. [473] In the prefatory advertisement to the first edition of _The Prelude_ 1850, it is stated that that poem was designed to be introductory to _The Recluse_, and that _The Recluse_ if completed, would have consisted of three parts. The second part is _The Excursion_. The third part was only planned. The first book of the first part was left in manuscript by Wordsworth. It was published for the first time _in extenso_ in 1888.--ED. [474] This Aldine edition, by Professor Dowden, is one of great merit, and permanent value. Although it is not immaculate--as no literary work ever is--as a contribution to Wordsworthian Literature it will hold an honoured place. Its “critical apparatus” is succinct and admirable.--ED.