Wordsworth, William - [Mary Barker] LINES ADDRESSED TO A NOBLE LORD; (HIS LORDSHIP WILL KNOW WHY,) BY ONE OF THE SMALL FRY OF THE LAKES. LONDON: PRINTED BY W. POPLE, 1815. 8vo (205 x 135 mm). Sewn, as issued; very light foxing. First edition. A privately-printed poem, and one of the earliest separate pieces of Byroniana, whose significance and importance has only recently been discovered. Chew (p. 18) was aware of this poem, from the copy in the British Library, which bears a manuscript attribution to "Miss Barker," whom he was unable to identify. Describing the pamphlet as "a quaint little book," Chew adds, in a footnote, "Byron may have known why she should address him; I do not." The truth is that Byron could not have known the reason, but Wordsworth most certainly did; a substantial portion of the poem is in fact his handiwork. Two manuscript versions of the poem survive, one in Miss Barker's album, and the other in the Monkhouse papers, a transcript possibly in the hand of one of Southey's children (Miss Barker was his young protégé and introduced Wordworth to her). From these, from the letters to Sara Hutchinson, and from the poem as finally printed, it is possible to piece together with some certainty the extent of Wordsworth's responsibility for the text. The poem consists of sixteen stanzas, varying in length from 10 to 16 lines. Of these, Wordsworth contributed a couplet to stanza VIII, and wrote most or all of stanzas XII to XVI; he was also clearly much involved in the opening stanza, and other words and phrases no doubt show his influence as well, but the details remain uncertain. The poem itself has a kind of split personality, and preserves evidence of uneasy collaboration. The passages by Mary Barker deal for the most part with Byron, and are full of reproof. Wordworth's contributions are much less vindictive. The only recorded copies of this remarkable poem in the United Kingdom are at the British Library, the Bodleian, and Cambridge; WorldCat adds copies at Harvard, Cornell, and the Lilly Library.
Wordsworth, William - [Mary Barker] LINES ADDRESSED TO A NOBLE LORD; (HIS LORDSHIP WILL KNOW WHY,) BY ONE OF THE SMALL FRY OF THE LAKES. LONDON: PRINTED BY W. POPLE, 1815. 8vo (205 x 135 mm). Sewn, as issued; very light foxing. First edition. A privately-printed poem, and one of the earliest separate pieces of Byroniana, whose significance and importance has only recently been discovered. Chew (p. 18) was aware of this poem, from the copy in the British Library, which bears a manuscript attribution to "Miss Barker," whom he was unable to identify. Describing the pamphlet as "a quaint little book," Chew adds, in a footnote, "Byron may have known why she should address him; I do not." The truth is that Byron could not have known the reason, but Wordsworth most certainly did; a substantial portion of the poem is in fact his handiwork. Two manuscript versions of the poem survive, one in Miss Barker's album, and the other in the Monkhouse papers, a transcript possibly in the hand of one of Southey's children (Miss Barker was his young protégé and introduced Wordworth to her). From these, from the letters to Sara Hutchinson, and from the poem as finally printed, it is possible to piece together with some certainty the extent of Wordsworth's responsibility for the text. The poem consists of sixteen stanzas, varying in length from 10 to 16 lines. Of these, Wordsworth contributed a couplet to stanza VIII, and wrote most or all of stanzas XII to XVI; he was also clearly much involved in the opening stanza, and other words and phrases no doubt show his influence as well, but the details remain uncertain. The poem itself has a kind of split personality, and preserves evidence of uneasy collaboration. The passages by Mary Barker deal for the most part with Byron, and are full of reproof. Wordworth's contributions are much less vindictive. The only recorded copies of this remarkable poem in the United Kingdom are at the British Library, the Bodleian, and Cambridge; WorldCat adds copies at Harvard, Cornell, and the Lilly Library.
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