Compare the sonnet, in vol.iv., beginning 'Calvert! it must not be unheard by them,' and the 'Life of Wordsworth' in this edition .-- Ed.] [Footnote L: The Wordsworths went to Alfoxden in the end of July, 1797.
It was in the autumn of that year that, with Coleridge, 'Upon smooth Quantock's airy ridge they roved Unchecked, or loitered 'mid her sylvan combs;' when the latter chaunted his 'Ancient Mariner' and 'Christabel', and Wordsworth composed 'The Idiot Boy' and 'The Thorn'.

The plan of a joint publication was sketched out in November 1797.

(See the Fenwick note to 'We are Seven', vol.i.p.

228.)--Ed.] [Footnote M: The death of his brother John.

Compare the 'Elegiac Verses' in memory of him, p.