ABSTRACT
At Lancaster I happened to mention Grasmere in hearing of one of the Passengers, who asked me immediately if one Wordsworth did not live there. I answered, ‘Yes.’ – ‘He has written,’ said he, ‘some very beautiful Poems; The Critics do indeed cry out against them, and condemn them as over simple, but for my part I read them with great pleasure, they are natural and true.’ – This man was also a Grocer.
