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‘How is it, Bill, thee doest write with such good verses? Doest thee invoke Muses?’
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Quoted by F. W. Bateson, Wordsworth — A Re-Interpretation (1956), p. 65 citing
E. Whately, ‘Personal Recollections of the Lake Poets’, The Leisure Hour, I Oct. 1870, p. 653.
Bateson also mentions a less convincing version in William Knight’s Life of Wordsworth (1889, Vol. I, p. 38) which Knight had heard from a nephew of Southey’s.
George Ticknor’s The Sorrows of Young Werther (by J. W. von Goethe), ed. F. G. Ryder (N.Y., 1966), p. 60.
For an extended discussion see A. H. Cash, Sterne’s Comedy of Moral Sentiments: the Ethical Dimension of the Journey (Pittsburgh, Pa., 1966).
L. Sterne, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, ed. G. D. Stout, Jr. (Berkeley and L.A., 1967), pp. 68–9.
J. P. Muirhead, ‘A Day with Wordsworth’ (1841); Blackwood’s Magazine, 1927, CCXXI, 736.
J. P. Muirhead, loc. cit., p. 735.
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Beer, J. (1978). The Consenting Language. In: Wordsworth and the Human Heart. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08710-5_1
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