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<dd>Ed. by W. Knight</dd>
<dd>No. 1-4 are continuously paged (91 p.); no. 5-8 are separately paged. [no. 4] is without cover-title or t.-p., and is unnumbered; it comprises five portraits of the poet, in photographic reproduction, with letterpress descriptions</dd>
<dd>"List of members," April 1883 (8 p.) is prefixed to no. 1; "List of members ... who have joined since April 1883" (1 l.) and "Constitution" (3 p.) are appended to no. 5 (with list of "Papers ... either read to the society, or published in its Transactions")</dd>
<dd>Healey</dd>
<dd>No more published; the society was dissolved in 1886 (treasurer's accounts closed Feb. 17, 1887)</dd>
<dd>no. 1. Constitution of the Wordsworth society. Bibliography of the poems of Wordsworth. Minute of meeting at Grasmere, 20th July, 1881.--no. 2. The meeting of the society on the 3d of May 1882. Memorandum by the Rev. H.D. Rawnsley in reference to the memorial stone at Grisedale Tarn. Letter from Professor Bonamy Price on the Ode of immortality. On the structure of the Wordsworth sonnet. By the Rev. Thomas Hutchinson. Notes by Mrs. Owen: On the seeming triviality of some of Wordsworth's subjects; On Wordsworth's view of death.--no. 3. Wordsworth's "Selections from Chaucer modernised." By Professor Edward Dowden. On the portraits of Wordsworth. By Professor Knight.--[no. 4. Five portraits of Wordsworth, with letterpress description. By the Hon. secretary]--no. 5. Report of meeting held on May 2, 1883. Remarks on the personal character of Wordsworth's poetry. Wordsworth's Guide to the Lakes. By Stopford Brooke</dd>
<dd>A few words on Wordsworth's position as an ethical teacher. By the Very Rev. the Dean of Salisbury. The proposed permanent Lake district defence society. By H.D. Rawnsley. Notes on the localities of the Duddon sonnets. By Herbert Rix. Letter from F.C. Yarnall, on Wordsworth's influence in America. Bibliography of review and magazine articles in criticism of Wordsworth. By W.F. Poole, Chicago. A mountain ramble, by Dorothy Wordsworth, November 7th to 13th, 1805. Letter from Mrs. Henry Nelson (Sara) Coleridge to Henry Reed, Philadelphia. Extract from an unpublished (and undated) letter of Charles Lamb to Miss Wordsworth. Letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Henry Reed. Wordsworth. A poem by J.C. [!] Whittier. Local note on Hart leap well. List of letters by Wordsworth in South Kensington Museum. List of members of the Wordsworth society who have joined since April 1883. Constitution of the Wordsworth society</dd>
<dd>no. 6. Report of the fifth annual meeting, May 10, 1884. Letters from Wordsworth to John Kenyon. On the Platonism of Wordsworth. By J.H. Shorthouse. On Wordsworth's two styles. By R.H. Hutton. On the yew-trees of Borrowdale. By the Rev. H.D. Rawnsley. Reminiscences of Wordsworth among the peasantry of Westmoreland. By the Rev. H.D. Rawnsley. The Rydal Mount library catalogue.--no. 7. Report of the sixth annual meeting, July 8, 1885. Wordsworth's relations to science, by Mr. Spence Watson. List of Wordsworth's poems, arranged in chronological order, by the editor. Bibliography of the poems of Wordsworth, by the editor. [2d ed., amended]--no. 8. Report of the seventh (and last) annual meeting, July 7, 1886. Paper by Mr. Rawnsley: "The humanity of Wordsworth," note by Mr. Rawnsley. Letters of Wordsworth, his wife, and sister, to Henry Crabb Robinson and others. Treasurer's supplemental account</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850; Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850; Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850</div>
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<dl><dd>Wordsworth society</dd>
<dd>Knight, William Angus, 1836-1916</dd>
<dd>St. John, Cynthia Morgan, 1852-1919. fmo</dd>
<dd>Wordsworth Collection</dd></dl></div>
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