poem is given by "Lady Austen's mewhat different version of the origin of the Wright, Principal of Cowper School, Olney. ade such an impression on his mind that at night he could not and his thoughts having taken the form of rhyme, he sprang ed, and committed them to paper, and in the morning brought o Mrs. Unwin the crude outline of 'John Gilpin.' All that day several days he secluded himself in the greenhouse, and went on e task of polishing and improving what he had written. As he is slips of paper he sent them across the Market-place to Mr. , to the great delight and merriment of that jocular barber, who ral other occasions had been favored with the first sight of some per's smaller poems. That the facts here stated are accurate e the authority of Mrs. Wilson; moreover, it has always been said ey that John Gilpin' was written in the 'greenhouse,' and that t person who saw the complete poem, and consequently the foreof that noble army who have made merry over its drolleries, was m Wilson, the barber. 'The story of "John Gilpin," observes t, 'has perhaps given as much pleasure to as many people as anyof the same length that ever was written.'" Life of William er, London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1892, p. 311. GE 283.. "Composed 1804; published 1807; seen at Town-end, ere. The elder-bush has long since disappeared; it hung over all near the cottage: and the kitten continued to leap up, catching aves as here described. The infant was Dora Wordsworth.". sworth's note. GE 287. — Charles Lamb writes: "I have heard of his [Blake's] s, but have never seen them. There is one to a tiger, beginning :'Tiger! tiger! burning bright,' is glorious! the third stanza, Mr. D. G. Rossetti's reading, "What dread hand ed thy dread feet?" is perhaps more intelligible, but it is not what e wrote. The text of Blake given in this series is an exact reprint e original versions in Songs of Innocence, 1789, and Songs of Expeze, 1794. AGE 293.-"When Sir Walter Scott lay dying" is taken from gerald's quaint and characteristic Preface on Truisms ("into which ruth must ultimately be dogs-eared "), prefixed to Polonius: A ection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances. London: William cering, 1852, p. v. INDEX OF WRITERS. WITH DATES OF BIRTH AND DEATH. ONYMOUS. Allin a Dale PAGE 205 Arabian Nights Entertainment: the Story of Sinbad the Sailor 8 How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix. 220 CARROLL, LEWIS (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832-1890). You are Old, Father William 209 301 |