From 1801 To 1840

In examining American Reviews and Magazines, for articles on Wordsworth, I find--after much laborious search--only some insignificant notices of his poems, of no critical or literary merit.

I have carefully read each article which appears in this list, and I add brief explanatory notes, indicative of the general tenor of the articles. It was disheartening to find that many of the references to Wordsworth, in Poole’s elaborate Index to Periodical Literature, were inaccurate and misleading; and that nearly all the articles on Wordsworth published in Harper’s Monthly Magazine for 1850 were “conveyed” from contemporary English journals.

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1801. The Port Folio. Vol. i.

Memoranda regarding the first publication of “Lyrical Ballads” in America.

1801. December, p. 407. The Original Prospectus of “Lyrical Ballads.” (James Humphreys publisher.)