Abbreviations
Poetry is cited by line number(s) (l. 1; ll. 1–2); page numbers are preceded by p. or pp. (pp. 1–2). Unless noted otherwise, quotations from Wordsworth’s poetry are from the Cornell Wordsworth Collection, which will be cited in full in each first relevant note. Quotations from the Bible are taken from the King James Version.
- CWWH
The Complete Works of William Hazlitt. Ed. P. P. Howe. 21 vols. London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1930–34.
- JDW
The Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth. Ed. Ernest de Selincourt. 3 vols. London: Macmillan, 1941.
- Prose
The Prose Works of William Wordsworth. Ed. W. J. B. Owen and Jane Worthington Smyser. 3 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.
Wordsworth letters: The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth. 2nd ed. Ernest de Selincourt; rev. Alan Hill, Mary Moorman, and Chester L. Shaver. 8 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967–1993. Abbreviations as follows:
- EY
The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, The Early Years, 1787–1805. Rev. Chester L. Shaver.
- MY I
The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, The Middle Years, Part I: 1806–1811. Rev. Mary Moorman.
- MY II
The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, The Middle Years, Part II: 1812–1820. Rev. Mary Moorman and Alan G. Hill.
- LY I
The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, The Later Years, Part I: 1821–1828. Rev. Alan G. Hill.
- LY II
The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, The Later Years, Part II: 1829–1834. Rev. Alan G. Hill.
- SNL
The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth. A Supplement of New Letters. Ed. Alan G. Hill.
- WTDQ
The Works of Thomas De Quincey. Ed. Grevel Lindop et al. 21 vols. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2003.