THE standard edition of Wordsworth is that edited by ** W. Knight,
1882-1886, Poetical Works, 8 volumes; Prose Works, 2 volumes.
There is a good edition of the * Poetical Works, complete in 1 volume,
with Wordsworth's Prefaces, published by The Macmillan Co. at $1.75.
KNIGHT (W.), William Wordsworth, 3 volumes, 1889 (the standard
biography.) WORDSWORTH (Chr.), Memoirs of William Wordsworth, 2
volumes, 1851. Hoop (E. P.), William Wordsworth; A Biography, 1856.
SYMINGTON (A. J.), William Wordsworth; A Biographical Sketch, with
Selections from his Writings in Poetry and Prose, 2 volumes, 1881.
MYERS (F. W. II.), William Wordsworth, English Men of Letters' Se-
ris, 1881 (the best brief biography, with adequate criticism). SUTH-
ERLAND (J. M.), William Wordsworth; the Story of his Life, with criti-
cal remarks on his Writings, 1887. ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA, Words-
Worth, by Prof. W. Minto, Vol. XXIV, pp. 668–676, 1888. WORDSWORTH
(Elizabeth), William Wordsworth, 1891. GOTHEIN (M.), Wordsworth,
sein Leben, seine Werke, Halle, 1898. RALEIGH (W. A.), Wordsworth,
1903. See also LEE (Edmund), Dorothy Wordsworth.
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