BITILIOGRAPIIY. For works, consult Poetical and Prose Works, together with Dorothy ll'o•ds worth's Journals, ed. by W. Knight (Eversley series, 16 vols., London and New York, 1896 et seq.) ; Poetical ll'orks, ed. by Knight (S vols., Edinburgh. 1882-86) ; by E. A. Dowden (Aldine edition, 7 vols., London, 1893) ; by J. Morley (1 vol., London and New Yo•k, 1888) ; reprints of the 1807 edition of Poems by Hutchinson (ib., ; Prose ll'orks, including essays of great interest to one wishing to follow the poet's opinions, ed. by A. B. Grosart• (6 vols., iL., 1876) ; and A Description of the Wordsworth and Cole ridge Manuscripts in the Possession of T. X. Lmtgnotn, ed. by W. Hale White (London and New York, 1897). Consult biographies by Chris topher Wordsworth (London, 185T) : by W. Knight (ib., 1889) ; by F. \V. Meyers (English Men of Letters Series, lb., 1881) ; by Elizabeth Wordsworth (ib., 1891) : La jeunesse de Words worth, by Emile Legouis (Paris. 1890: English trans. by .J. W. Matthews, London, 1897) ;
Wordsworth, sein Leber seine Werke. by N.
Gothien 1898). Critical estimates are contained in these works. Fo• further appre ciations, consult Coleridge, De Quineey. H. IL Hutton, Matthew Arnold (the very best, in Es says in ('riticism, second series), J. R. Lowell, Aubrey de Vere, Dean Church, Stopfo•d Brooke, Dowden, and Swinburne. The best work on \\'o•dswo•th's historical place in English poelry is The Age of Wordsworth, by C. H. Ilerford (London, 1897) ; and a thoughtful monograph by Walter Raleigh 1903) is well worth study. On September 29, 1880, a Wo•dswo•th Society was formed, and its last meeting was held on July 9, 1886. Its valuable transac tions were published at Edinburgh in eight vol umes. A seleetion from his papers: under the title was edited by W. Knight (London, 1889). Consult. also A Wordsworth Dictionary of Persons and Places, by R. Tiffin (Hull, 1891).