ABSTRACT

Note dictated by Wordsworth to Isabella Fenwick in 1843, concerning ‘ “There !” said a Stripling’, an Itinerary poem written in 1833 and published in 1835. Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, ed. E. De Selincourt and Helen Darbishire (1947), IV, p. 408 (see Nos 16, 29, 33, 44, 53 and Introduction, p. 28).