SOURCES AND SHORT FORMS OF CITATION

The authoritative edition of Wordsworth’s poetry is the Cornell Wordsworth, general editor Stephen Parrish. Wherever possible quotation from the poems throughout this Companion will be keyed to the ‘Reading Text’ in the relevant volume of this multi-volume edition, but where there can be no mistaking what is being referred to, quotations will not be encumbered with unnecessary citation notes. Line numbers will only be added at the end of quotations from longer poems – no one needs a line number to find a quotation from a sonnet. Bibliographical details for each volume of the Cornell Wordsworth referred to are given below in the list of short forms of citation. As this Companion goes to press the Cornell Wordsworth is not yet complete and for certain poems – most notably The Excursion – it is necessary to refer to the previously standard edition of Wordsworth’s poetry, edited by Ernest de Selincourt and Helen Darbishire, details of which appear below.

Short Forms of Citation

Place of publication is London unless otherwise noted.

1799

The Prelude, 1798–1799, ed. Stephen Parrish [Cornell Wordsworth] (Ithaca, 1977)

1805

The Thirteen-Book Prelude, ed. Mark L. Reed [Cornell Wordsworth] (2 vols.; Ithaca, 1991)

1850

The Fourteen-Book Prelude, ed. W. J. B. Owen [Cornell Wordsworth] (Ithaca, 1985)

BL

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, ed. James Engell and W. Jackson Bate (2 vols.; 1983)

DS

Descriptive Sketches, ed. Eric Birdsall [Cornell Wordsworth] (Ithaca, 1984)

Borderers

The Borderers, ed. Robert Osborn [Cornell Wordsworth] (Ithaca, 1982)

BW

Benjamin the Waggoner, ed. Paul F. Betz [Cornell Wordsworth] (Ithaca, 1981)

DW

Dorothy Wordsworth

EP

Early Poems and Fragments, 1785–1797, ed. Carol Landon and Jared Curtis [Cornell Wordsworth] (Ithaca, 1997)

H@G

Home at Grasmere, ed. Beth Darlington [Cornell Wordsworth] (Ithaca, 1977)

LB

Lyrical Ballads, and Other Poems, 1797–1800, ed. James Butler and Karen Green [Cornell Wordsworth] (Ithaca, 1992)

LP

Last Poems, 1821–1850, ed. Jared Curtis [Cornell Wordsworth] (Ithaca, 1999)

PB

Peter Bell, ed. John E. Jordan [Cornell Wordsworth] (Ithaca, 1985)

P2V

Poems, in Two Volumes, and Other Poems, 1800–1807, ed. Jared Curtis [Cornell Wordsworth] (Ithaca, 1983)

Prose

The Prose Works of William Wordsworth, ed. W. J. B. Owen and Jane Worthington Smyser (3 vols.; Oxford, 1974)

PW

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, ed. Ernest de Selincourt and Helen Darbishire (5 vols.; Oxford, 1940–9)

RC

The Ruined Cottage and The Pedlar, ed. James Butler [Cornell Wordsworth] (Ithaca, 1979)

SP

The Salisbury Plain Poems of William Wordsworth, ed. Stephen Gill [Cornell Wordsworth] (Ithaca, 1975)

SPoems

Shorter Poems, 1807–1820, ed. Carl H. Ketcham [Cornell Wordsworth] (Ithaca, 1989)

STC

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

STCL

Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. Earl Leslie Griggs (6 vols.; Oxford, 1956–71)

TT

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk, ed. Carl Woodring (2 vols.; London, 1990).

Tuft

The Tuft of Primroses, with Other Late Poems for The Recluse, ed. Joseph F. Kishel [Cornell Wordsworth] (Ithaca, 1986)

WD

The White Doe of Rylstone, ed. Kristine Dugas [Cornell Wordsworth] (Ithaca, 1988)

WL

The Wordsworth Library, Grasmere.

WL

The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth (8 vols.; Oxford, 1967–93). Individual volumes: The Early Years 1787–1805, ed. Chester L. Shaver (1967); The Middle Years, pt 1: 1806–1811, ed. Mary Moorman (1969); The Middle Years, pt 2: 1812–1820, ed. Mary Moorman and Alan G. Hill (1970); The Later Years, pt 1: 1821–1828, ed. Alan G. Hill (1978); The Later Years, pt 2: 1829–1834, ed. Alan G. Hill (1979); The Later Years, pt 3: 1835–1839, ed. Alan G. Hill (1982); The Later Years, pt 4: 1840–1853, ed. Alan G. Hill (1988); A Supplement of New Letters, ed. Alan G. Hill (1993). The edition referred to serially as WL, i–viii.

WW

William Wordsworth