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Lakeland poets at the Armitt Library

The Lake District has attracted an unusual number of amateur poets as well as some more important ones such as Norman Nicholson. Matthew Arnold is included; he is a major national poet but has strong local connections. Wordsworth and Coleridge are not included as their collections are disproportionately large and are listed separately.
Molly Lefebure	The illustrated Lake Poets
Robert Anderson	Poetical works, Vol1	1820
A.M.H. (Harris/Armitt)	Where Rotha runs	1902
	Collected poems	1901
Matthew Arnold	Poetical works	1893
	Selected poems	1878
Rachel Bates	Songs from a lake (pre 1948)	n.d.
Charles Dent Bell	The four seasons of the Lakes	n.d.
Gerard Benson	In Wordsworth’s chair	1995
Henry Bryan Binne	Hill tops	1921
Miss (Susanna) Blamire	Songs and poems, and songs	1866
Richard Brathwaite	Drunken Barnaby’s four journeys	1805
	Journeys to the North of England	1822
	The ancient ballad of Chevy Chase	1822
John Briggs	Poems on various subjects	1818
James Bush	The choice, or lines on the Beatitudes	1841
William Canton	The fairy princess, and other poems	n.d.
Alan Capstick	Poems, parts 1and 2	n.d.
	Thirteen booklets of poems	n.d.
Edmund Casson	Masques and Poems	1914
Hartley Coleridge	Poems, Vols 1 and 2	1851
	New poems, etc.	1942
T.H. Collingwood	Poems of life	1930
	Lakeland poems and others	1905
Margaret Cropper	The end of the road	1935
	Something and everything	1975
John Denwood & John Denwood Jnr.	Cumbrian carols	1907
	English sonnets	1934
F.W.Faber	Poems	1857
	Hymns	1871
	The Cherwell water lily and other poems	1860
	The Styrian lake and other poems	1842
C.M.Fletcher	Echoes of Easdale	1926
William Gaspey	Summer offerings	1843
Sidney Gilpin	Songs and ballads of Cumberland and the Lake Country (third series)	1874
Francis J. Grant	Thoughts and feelings	1996
Kenneth Knight Hallowes	Poetic works, Vol.1	1934
Felicia Hemans	Poems	1865
Mrs. William Hey	Recollections of the Lakes, etc.	1841
Thomas Hoggart	Remnants of rhyme	1853
James Hoggarth	Evening strains and parlour pastimes	1880
	Echoes from years gone by	1892
	Outlets from the hills	1896
David Holt	Janus, Lake sonnets etc	1853
Irvine Hunt	Tyson	1978
Mr. Hymas	Midnight, All Hallows 1977 &other poems	n.d.
	The garden of Luz	n.d.
Frederick Edgar Johnson	A halfpenny worth of rhymes	1832
Isabella Lickbarrow	Poetical effusions	1814
	Reprint	1994
Sheona Lodge	Swan feather	1993
	Voice of the river	1996
James A. Mackereth	Stormwrack and other poems	1927
	Earth, dear earth	1928
	A son of Cain	1910
	In the wake of the Phoenix	1912
	Iolaus	1913
Harold Morland	Lakeland ballads	1972
	Sites and flowers	1973(?)
	In my mind’s eye	1975
	Home thoughts	1975
George Newby	Henllyware,or the Druid’s Temple	1854
Fred Nevinson	A Westmorland Shepherd	1977
Norman Nicholson	A local habitation	1972
	Rock face	1948
	Selected poems, 1940-1982	1982
	The shadow of Black Combe	1978
Aileen Otley	How the Lake District was made	1994
	Lake District yellow bonnets	1991
	The man who sells the news, etc	1995
Anon.	A Pic Nic at the Temple of Storrs	1805
James Plumtree	The Lakers: a comic opera	1798
Mary Powley	Echoes of old Cumberland	1875
Edward Quillinan	Poems, with memoir	1853
H.D.Rawnsley	A book of Bristol sonnets	1877
	The European War, 1914-1915	1915?
	Poems, ballads and bucolics	1890
	Ballads of the war	1901
	A sonnet chronicle, 1904-1906	1906
	Sonnets of the English Lakes	1881
	Sonnets of Switzerland and Italy	1899
	Sonnets round the coast	1887
	Valete	1893
Josiah Relph	Poems, and Life (illus. By Bewick)	1798
William Renton	Oils and watercolours	1905
	Songs	1893
William Stanley Roscoe	Poems	1854
John Ruskin	Poems, Vols 1 and 2	1891
F.B.Sandford	Verses of Lakeland and elsewhere	1936
G.Basil Sleigh	Lays of a countryman	1939
Caroline Bowles Southey	Poetical works	1867
Robert Southey	Poetical works	1844
	Selected poems, and memoir	1872
	Roderick, the last of the Goths, Vol,2	1815
Thomas Thornley	Collected verse	1939
William Watson	The collected poems	1899
	The poems, Vols 1 and 2	1905
	New poems	1905
	Selected poems	1928
	A hundred poems	n.d.
	Wordsworth’s grave, and other poems	1890
	Poems brief and new	1925
	Poems	1893
John Wilson (Christopher North)	Poems (Works, Vol. XII )	1867
	Poetical works (Works, Vol. XII)	1868
	Lakeland poems	1902
Francis Brett Young	The Island	1944

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Robert Anderson	Cumberland ballads	n.d.
	Cumberland ballads, a selection	1947
T. Blezard	Original Westmorland songs	1868
W. Bowness	Rustic studies, etc.	1868
E.R. & M.Denwood, eds	“Oor mak” of Tuck	1946
Mildred Edwards	Cumberlan’ tales and poems	1973
Alexander Craig Gibson	The folk-speech of Cumberland	1880
F. Jollie ed	Sketch of Cumberland manners and Customs	1811
John Limon	“Ya mak ma laff”	n.d.
John Richardson	Cumberland talk	1870
Tom Twisleton	Poems in the Craven dialect	1886
F.Warriner ed	A Cumberland dialect reciter	n.d.
John Pagen White	Lays and legends of the English Lake Country	1873
William Wilson	Pegasus in Lakeland	1878

Wordsworth at the Armitt [Back to top of the page]

Editions of Wordsworth’s poetry published in his lifetime.	The Armitt has a fair number of theses, including some first editions,
Lyrical Ballads, 2 vols		1802
Lyrical Ballads, 2 vols	(the second and third editions of the first 2-volume edition of 1800)	1805
Poems	2 volumes	1815
Miscellaneous Poems	4 volumes	1820
River Duddon Sonnets and other Poems	To which is annexed a Topographical Description of the Country of the Lakes 1 volume	1820
Poetical Works	5 volumes	1827
Poems chiefly of Early and Late Years	1 volume	1842
Poems	1 volume (second re-issue of the 1845 edition)	1849
First editions of individual works
The Excursion		1814
The Waggoner		1819
Peter Bell		1819
The Armitt also holds a copy of The Prelude	published posthumously, in the year of Wordsworth’s death	1850
Victorian Editions of the Poetical Works	(complete or selected)
These are well represented in the Armitt. Distinguished editors include Matthew Arnold, (Poems of Wordsworth, 1879) and Edward Dowden, whose edition Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, 7 vols, 1892-93, includes much supplementary information. William Knight (less accurate than Dowden) broke new ground in abandoning Wordsworth’s highly personal arrangement of his works into various sections and adopting a chronological arrangement. To a greater extent than his predecessors, he supplements Wordsworth’s final text by recording readings from the poet’s earlier printed texts, and he explores topographical matters in his notes. The Armitt has two sets of his edition Poetical Works, 8 vols, 1882-86, and one set of his revised and corrected edition Poetical Works, 8 vols, 1896.
*One attractive early edition is Poems* selected and edited by R.A. Willmott, 1859, which has an ornate binding and plentiful illustrations by Birket Foster and others.**
Twentieth Century editions of the Poetical Works
The Armitt has two scholarly editions of the early twentieth century, Poetical Works, edited by N.C. Smith, 3 vols, 1908, and a handsome 10-volume American edition, Poetical Works, 1910-11, illustrated with photographs by the Walmsley Brothers of Ambleside.
The century’s most important , and still standard, editions are those of Ernest de Selincourt and Helen Darbishire, edited from Wordsworth’s own manuscripts. The Armitt has two copies of The Prelude, ed. by de Selincourt, 1926, which presents parallel texts of the 1805 and 1850 versions. The Armitt lacks the 2^nd. Edition, revised by Darbishire, 1959, though it has the 2^nd edition, edited by Stephen Gill, 1970, of de Selincourt’s 1905 text (only), (first edition, 1933, revised 1960). The Armitt has The Poetical Works, ed. de Selincourt/Darbishire, 5 vols, 1940-49, but lacks the revised editions, 1952-1959.
The Armitt’s most recently published volume containing the complete poems is the O.U.P. re-issue, 1984, of Poetical Works, ed. T.Hutchinson, 1895, revised by de Selincourt in 1942. There are also two copies of the 1942 volume.
The Armitt has one volume, Early Poems and Fragments, of the series being published by Cornell University Press (1975-), in which manuscripts are presented in detail, along with fully annotated “reading texts”. The earliest pieces belong to Wordsworth’s schooldays at Hawkshead.
Prose Works: Editions of Collected Prose
The Armitt has two editions; Prose Works, ed. A.B.Grosart, 3 vols, 1876 and Prose Works, ed. W. Knight, 2 vols, 1896. These have now been largely superseded by the 3-volume edition, eds J.W.B. Owen and J. Smyser, 1974, which Armitt lacks.
Prose Works: Guide to The Lakes
The Armitt has a very good collection. The first edition appeared as an anonymous introduction to Joseph Wilkinson’s Select Views of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, 1810. The Armitt possesses The Views as originally issued in 12 parts, the Introduction being Part 1. The Armitt also has the 2^nd edition (see River Duddon Sonnets above,); the 4^th edition revised and enlarged, 1823, being the 2^nd separately-published edition; the 5^th edition, A Guide through the district the Lakes….with a description of the scenery, &c,…1835, the last edition under Wordswoth’s editorship; the 6^th edition, incorporated in Hudson’s Complete Guide to the Lakes, with letters on geology by Professor Sedgwick, 1842; and further editions of this publication from 1843, 1846, 1853. The Guide is included in Grosart’s and Knight’s editions of the prose works (see above) and the Armitt also has de Selincourt’s edition of the 1835 text, 1906 and 1926, and Peter Bicknell’s authoritative and splendidly illustrated, The Illustrated Wordsworth’s Guide to the Lakes, 1984.
Correspondence
The Armitt has W.Knight’s edition, Letters of the Wordsworth Family, 3 vols, 1907. Its holdings of the standard edition, Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, ed. by de Selincourt and others, are useful but limited. It has: Early years, rev. Shaver, 1967: Middle Years, in 2 vols. (now parts I and II), Part I revised by Moorman, 1969; Later Years, 3 vols. 1939. Armitt lacks both the original (1939) and revised (1970) editions of Middle Years, Part II, and all the second edition of Later Years, 4 vols, revised, arranged and edited by Alan Hill in 1978, 1979, 1982 and 1988.
Armitt has The Love Letters of William and Mary Wordsworth, ed B. Darlington, 1982. These passionate love letters of Wordsworth and his wife, which came to light in the 1970s afford new insights into their married relationship. The Armitt also has The correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson with the Wordsworth Circle, ed. E.J.Morley, 2 vols, 1927.
Biographical
The Armitt has a number of major biographies of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Christopher Wordsworth’s Memoirs of William Wordsworth, 2 vols, 1851 (3 sets); Knight’s Life, 3 vols, 1889 (2 sets);E.Legouis’ Early Life, 1897, and Wordsworth and Anntee Vallon, 1922; G.M.harper’s Life, Work and Influence, 1916, and Wordsworth’s French Daughter, 1921.
A more recent major biography among Armitt’s holdings is Mary Moorman’s Biography: The Early Years, 1957 (also a 1968 edition) and Biography: The Later Years, 1965. The Armitt aslo has Hunter Davies’ Biography, 1980, and the important modern biography by Stephen Gill, A Life, 1989.
Two works which shed life on Wordsworth’s schooldays, and are locally important, are T.W. Thompson, Wordsworth’s Hawkshead, edited by R.S.Woof, 1970 and Eileen Jay, Wordsworth at Colthouse, 1970.
Works that concentrate on the local associations of Wordsworth’s poetry.
A.W.Bennett	Our English Lakes, Mountains and Waterfalls as seen by William Wordsworth, photographically illustrated, 1864. (Two copies, one with insert leaf containing WW’s verses transcribed by Bennett, and WW’s signature	1846
W.Knight	Through the Wordsworth Country, Pictures by Harry Goodwin	1887
	(another copy, 1890)	1890
W.Knight	**The English Lakes District as interpreted in the Poems of Wordsworth**	1891
E.S.Valentine	**Wordsworth’s Country as interpreted by his Poetry**	c.1900
A.B.McMahan	With Wordsworth in England Poems and letters that have to do with English scenery and life: with over 60 photographs	1907
E.Robertson	Wordsworthshire An introduction to a Poet’s Country. Drawings by Arthur Tucker - 2 copies	1911
R.J.Hutchings	The Wordsworth Poetical Guide to the Lakes. An illustrated anthology	1977
	(another copy)	1978
Grevil Lindop	A Literary Guide to the Lakes, (Wordsworth and many others)	1993
	The Armitt holds the paperback, 1994, edition. This is a comprehensive and important work.
Two other reliable modern works that the Armitt lacks are Ronald Sands’, Portrait of the Wordsworth Country, (photographic illustrations), 1984; and David McCracken, Wordsworth and the Lake District (illustrations from early prints etc), 1984.
Critical Works
There are not very many of these in the Armitt, though a few works by distinguished critics of the earlier twentieth century may be noted: E.W.Garrod, Wordsworth Lectures and Essays, 1923; E.C.Batho, The Later Wordsworth, 1933; H.Read, Wordsworth, 1949; H.Darbishire, The Poet Wordsworth, 1962: F.W.Bateson, Wordsworth, a Re-interpretation, 1965.
Criticism may also be found in Transactions of the Wordsworth Society and more up-to-date criticism in The Wordsworth Circle, and the Wordsworth Memorial Lectures at Rydal Church (see below under Miscellaneous items).
Dorothy Wordsworth
Journals; the Armitt has de Selincourt’s edition, Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, 2 vols, 1941. This is the most comprehensive edition. It includes: The Alfoxden Journal, (1798), Journal of the visit to Hamburg and journey to Goslar, (1798), Grasmere Journal, (1800-1803), and journals of two Scottish tours, (1803 and 1822), a Continental tour, (1820). and a tour of the Isle of Man (1828). Armitt also holds W.Knight’s edition, Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, 2 vols, 1897; M.Moorman’s edition, Journals, 1958; and Lakeland Journals, illustrated, edited by R.Trickett, 1987. Armitt also holds Pamela Woof’s edition, The Grasmere Journals, 1991; her notes provide much information about Grasmere at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
*George and Sarah Green, Dorothy’s narrative of a Grasmere tragedy and the local community’s response.Armitt has de Selincourt’s edition of 1936 and a reprint, The Greens of Grasmere, 1987.*
*Letters: Armitt has Letters of Dorothy Wordsworth. A Selection, ed. by A.G.Hill, 1985. See also items under Correspondence, above.*
Biography: Armitt has; C.M.Maclean, Dorothy Wordsworth, the Early Years, 1932, and E.de Selincourt, Dorothy Wordsworth, 1933, it lacks R.Gittings and J.Manton’s excellent modern biography, Dorothy Wordsworth, 1985.
Works, letters etc, by or about other members of the Wordsworth Family
The Armitt has a few of these, including The Letters of Mary Wordsworth, ed. Mary Burton, 1958 (see also Correspondence, above), and A Passionate Sisterhood, by K.Jones, 1997, featuring the women members of the Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey families.
Miscellaneous items
Transactions of the Wordsworth Society, 1882-1887, Constitution, list of members, nos1-8.
*The Wordsworth Circle, published quarterly by Temple University, Philadelphia; the publication is ongoing but Armitt only holds an incomplete set for 1971-1979 (vols2-9).*
Annual Wordsworth Memorial Lectures at Rydal Church.
Concordance of Poems of William Wordsworth, ed L.Cooper, 1911.
The Wordsworth Dictionary of Persons and Places, with the familiar quotations from his Works, compiled by J.R.Tutin, 1891.
Portraits of Wordsworth, F.Blanchard, 1959
Reminiscences of Wordsworth and the Peasantry of Westmoreland, R.D.Rawnsley, originally printed in Transactions of the Wordsworth Society, 1882, revised in Lake Country Sketches, 1905, now reprinted with an introduction by G.Tillotson, 1968.
Kendal and Windermere Railway. Two letters reprinted from The Morning Post Dec. 1844.
Rydal Mount Library sale catalogue, 1859. (Reprinted in Transactions, no. 6)
Rydal Mount Household Furniture and Effects Sale Catalogue, 1871

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