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PITHY QUOTE FROM Wordsworths: Collected Letters

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But how absurd to talk of a few Authors or Authorlings, Men, Women, or Children, condensing or exhibiting the Spirit of this or any other age, at any time.

The Collected Letters of the Wordsworths. March 1784. W. W. to Thomas Powell.

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The Collected Letters of the Wordsworths. Electronic Edition.

ISBN: 978-1-57085-384-5

Language: English

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List of Contents

The Collected Letters of the Wordsworths contains the collected letters of William, Dorothy and Mary Wordsworth, augmented by the journals of Dorothy Wordsworth and by the correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson with the Wordsworth Circle, all from Oxford University Press.


Wordsworth, William and Dorothy. The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth. Arranged and edited by Ernest de Selincourt. 2nd ed. 7 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967-1993.

_____. The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth Vol. 8: A supplement of new letters. Edited by Alan G. Hill, rev. ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.

Wordsworth, Dorothy. Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth. Edited by Mary Moorman with an introduction by Helen Darbishire. 2nd ed. Rpt. with corrections, 1978. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.

_____. The Grasmere Journals. Edited by Pamela Woof. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Wordsworth, Mary. The Letters of Mary Wordsworth. Selected and edited by Mary E. Burton. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958.

Robinson, Henry Crabb. The Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson with the Wordsworth circle, 1808-1866. Chronologically arranged and edited with introduction, notes and index, by Edith J. Morley. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927.



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—Quentin Skinner
Regius Professor of Modern History
University of Cambridge
U.K.