Duffield." Ed.] [Footnote E: Compare 'Paradise Lost', v.1.

150: 'In prose or numerous verse.' Ed.] [Footnote F: Wordsworth's earliest teachers, before he was sent to Hawkshead School, were his mother and the Rev.Mr.Gilbanks at Cockermouth, and Mrs.Anne Birkett at Penrith.

His mother and Dame Birkett taught him to read, and trained his infant memory.

Mr.Gilbanks also gave him elementary instruction; while his father made him commit to memory portions of the English poets.

At Hawkshead he read English literature, learned Latin and Mathematics, and wrote both English and Latin verse.