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Wordsworth and Ticknor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Judson Stanley Lyon
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It has long been known that the journals of George Ticknor contain a most interesting series of impressions of the later Wordsworth, gathered during Ticknor's two visits to Europe in 1819 and 1835–38. Ticknor's description of the aging poet, his family and friends, his way of life, his poetry, and his opinions, while it is certainly not blindly adulatory, serves as an agreeable antidote to the rather astringent and far more widely known description by another travelling American, Emerson. The relations between Ticknor and Wordsworth are of interest not only to students of the two men individually, but also to anyone who is curious about the literary connections between the two cultures, for “the friendly daily intercourse of Wordsworth and Ticknor, a prominent and influential man of letters in America, was undoubtedly also a means of promoting in this country an interest in the poet and his work.”

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Research Article
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PMLA , Volume 66 , Issue 4 , June 1951 , pp. 432 - 440
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1951

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References

Note 1 in page 432 Life, Letters, and Journals of George Ticknor, ed. George S. Hillard (Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1909).

Note 2 in page 432 A. Newton, Wordsworth in Early American Criticism (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1928), p. 138.

Note 3 in page 433 The MSS. of all letters quoted in this article, except where otherwise indicated by footnote reference to published sources, and the MSS. of Ticknor's journals, are in the Ticknor Collection of Baker Library, Dartmouth College.

Note 4 in page 434 MS. in Baker Library.

Note 5 in page 434 Poetical Works of William Wordsworth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1940–49), Vol. i.

Note 6 in page 434 Wordsworth to Reed, 13 Jan. 1841, Wordsworth and Reed, ed. L. N. Broughton (Cornell Univ. Press, 1933), p. 41.

Note 7 in page 434 A full account of Wordsworth's friendship with Allston can be found in a letter, Wordsworth to R. H. Dana (sen.), Oct. 1843, The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, The Later Years, ed. E. De Selincourt (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1939), pp. 1184–86 (hereafter referred to as LY).

Note 8 in page 435 Some Letters of the Wordsworth Family, ed. L. N. Broughton (Cornell Univ. Press, 1942), pp. 96–98.

Note 9 in page 435 Wordsworth to Scott, 28 Aug. 1828, LY, p. 302.

Note 10 in page 436 Wordsworth to Dana, Oct. 1843, LY, p. 1185.

Note 11 in page 436 This letter is misdated late summer, 1842, by De Selincourt (LY, p. 1135). The date should clearly be 1 Sept. 1835.

Note 12 in page 436 MS. in Baker Library.

Note 13 in page 437 Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson 'with the Wordsworth Circle, ed. E. J. Morley (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927), i, 362–363.

Note 14 in page 438 Wordsworth to ?, 1 Dec. 1842, LY, p. 1148.

Note 15 in page 439 This letter and the following are quoted only in excerpt, since the omitted parts are not pertinent to Wordsworth.

Note 16 in page 439 Baker Library.