[The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. III by William Wordsworth]@TWC D-Link bookThe Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. III INTRODUCTION 17/21
325 (edition 1818) .-- Ed.] [Footnote h: The two preceding paragraphs were published in 'The Friend', December 28, 1809, under the title of the 'Growth of Genius from the Influences of Natural Objects on the Imagination, in Boyhood and Early Youth', and were afterwards inserted in all the collective editions of Wordsworth's poems, from 1815 onwards.
For the changes of the text in these editions, see vol.ii.pp.
66-69 .-- Ed.] [Footnote i: The becks amongst the Furness Fells, in Yewdale, and elsewhere .-- Ed.] [Footnote j: Possibly from the top of some of the rounded moraine hills on the western side of the Hawkshead Valley .-- Ed.] [Footnote k: The pupils in the Hawkshead school, in Wordsworth's time, boarded in the houses of village dames.
Wordsworth lived with one Anne Tyson, for whom he ever afterwards cherished the warmest regard, and whose simple character he has immortalised.
(See especially in the fourth book of 'The Prelude', p.
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