ABSTRACT

This chapter was formed by merging two separate articles from the ongoing ‘Lake Reminiscences, from 1807 to 1830’ in Tait’s, VI, July, August 1839: ‘No. IV. – William Wordsworth and Robert Southey’ and ‘No. V. – Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge’ (Vol. 11). Additions, omissions and transitional points are indicated in the textual notes below.