ENGLISH SCHOOL-CLASSICS Edited by FRANCIS STORR, M.A., CHIEF MASTER OF MODERN SUBJECTS AT MERCHANT TAYLORS' SCHOOL, LATE SCHOLAR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, AND BELL UNIVERSITY SCHOLAR. Small 8vo. Thomson's Seasons: Winter. With an Introduction to the Series. By the Rev. J. FRANCK BRIGHT, M.A., Fellow of University College. Is. Cowper's Task. Part I. (Books I. and II.), 9d. Part II. (Books III. and IV.), 9d. Part III. (Books V. and VI.), 9d. Simple Poems from Cowper. By FRANCIS STORR, M.A. IS. 2s. 6d. Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel. By J. SURTEES PHILLPOTTS, M.A., Head Master of Bedford School. Scott's Lady of the Lake. By R. W. TAYLOR, M.A., Head Master of Kelly College, Tavistock. 25. Part I. (Cantos I. and II.), 9d. Part II. (Cantos III. and IV.), 9d. Part III. (Cantos V. and VI.), 9d. Notes to Scott's Waverley. By H. W. EVE, M.A., Head Master of University College School, London. Twenty of Bacon's Essays. Simple Poems. 2s. 6d. By FRANCIS STORR, M.A. IS. By W. E. MULLINS, M.A., Assistant-Master at Marlborough College. 8d. Wordsworth's Excursion.-The Wanderer. By HAWES TURNER, B.A., late Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge. Is. Selections from Wordsworth's Poems. By HAWES TURNER, B.A. Milton's Paradise Lost. IS. By FRANCIS STORR, M.A. Book I. 9d. Book II. 9d. Milton's L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, and Lycidas. By EDWARD STORR, M.A., late Scholar of New College, Oxford. IS. Selections from the Spectator. By OSMUND AIRY, M.A., H. M. Inspector of Schools. IS. Browne's Religio Medici. By W. P. SMITH, M.A., Assistant-Master at Winchester College. Goldsmith's Traveller, and The Deserted Village. IS. By C. SANKEY, M.A., Head Master of Bury St. Edmund's Grammar School. Is. Extracts from Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield. By C. SANKEY, M.A. IS. Poems selected from the Works of Robert Burns. By A. M. BELL, M.A., Balliol College, Oxford. Macaulay's Essays: 25. MOORE'S LIFE OF BYRON. By FRANCIS STORR, M.A. 9d. BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON. BY FRANCIS STORR, M.A. 9d. HALLAM'S CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY. By H. F. BOYD, late Scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford. IS. Southey's Life of Nelson. Gray's Poems, with Johnson's Life, and Selections from Gray's Letters. By FRANCIS STORR, M.A. IS. **INGTONS, LONDON, OXFORD, AND CAMBRIDGE. SELECTIONS FROM THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH EDITED, WITH NOTES BY HAWES TURNER, B.A. LATE SCHOLAR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE LIFE. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH was born in April, 1770, at Cockermouth, on the river Derwent, in Cumberland. The Wordsworths were a family of no great note, but had long held a respectable position, and the father of the poet was a solicitor, and acted as agent to Lord Lonsdale. He had five children, of whom William was the second, and his only sister, Dorothy, the third. By the banks of Derwent the future poet passed his early childhood. Even then the mountain stream "sent a voice that flowed along his dreams," and in its waters, when only five years old, he tells us, he made "one long bathing of a summer's day." The wise care of his mother, whom Wordsworth always lovingly remembered, made these pleasant years of infancy full of profit to him. His passionate and earnest nature showed, she tells us, some signs of sullenness, which vanished, however, under her wise training, and which have as their sole counterpart the complete lack of humour which marked his character. His mother died when he was eight years old, and the following year he was sent, with his elder brother John, to school at Hawkshead, a market village near the lake of Esthwaite. The cne fact of Wordsworth's school-time is that it was only a continuation of his childish freedom. It is the first index of a life singular throughout for its unconven |