ABSTRACT

1844

Extracts from reminiscences of Wordsworth by (a) Mrs. Davy and (b) Lady Richardson (from A.B.Grosart, ed., The Prose Works of William Wordsworth (London, 1876), iii, 442–3, 445). The first selection (a) is taken from a conversation dated 11 July 1844; the second (b) 12 July 1844.

For Wordsworth’s earlier opinion of Scott, see No. 11.