ABSTRACT
An earlier version of this chapter was published under the title ‘Lake Reminiscences from 1807 to 1830, By the English Opium-Eater: No. I. – William Wordsworth’ in Tait’s, VI, January, February, April 1839 (Vol. 11). De Quincey’s revisions in 1854 tend to tone down his earlier animosity to the poet. Transitional points between the new and the earlier material are indicated in the textual notes below.
