BIB_ID
403778
Accession number
MA 1581.283
Creator
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.
Display Date
England, 1828.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.2 x 11.2 cm
Notes
This manuscript was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Wordsworth) 52.
This manuscript is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall and to other members of the Beaumont family. See collection-level record for more information (MA 1581.1-297).
The fourth stanza in "Incident at Brugès" differs from Selincourt. It begins with the line "The restless heart is not unwise" and the published poem is "Not always is the heart unwise."
The published version of "A Jewish family", cited below, has the subtitle "in a small valley opposite St. Goar, upon the Rhine." The subtitle in the manuscript is "met with in a Dingle near the Rhine."
The first three lines of the fifth stanza of "A Jewish family" differ from the published version cited below. The manuscript begins with the line "Fair Creatures, in this lone retreat." The published stanza begins "Two lovely Sisters, still and sweet."
This manuscript is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall and to other members of the Beaumont family. See collection-level record for more information (MA 1581.1-297).
The fourth stanza in "Incident at Brugès" differs from Selincourt. It begins with the line "The restless heart is not unwise" and the published poem is "Not always is the heart unwise."
The published version of "A Jewish family", cited below, has the subtitle "in a small valley opposite St. Goar, upon the Rhine." The subtitle in the manuscript is "met with in a Dingle near the Rhine."
The first three lines of the fifth stanza of "A Jewish family" differ from the published version cited below. The manuscript begins with the line "Fair Creatures, in this lone retreat." The published stanza begins "Two lovely Sisters, still and sweet."
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Introductory paragraph saying "The two following poems are taken from two incidents recorded in Dora's journal of her Time with her Father & S.T. Coleridge. As I well recollect, she has related the incidents very pleasingly, & I hope you will agree with me in the thinking that the Poet has made good use of them."
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