The present issue of The Excursion has been edited by Mr G. C. MOORE SMITH, M.A., of St John's College, Cambridge, Professor of English Literature at University College, Sheffield, who has added the marginal and other notes. The Editor desires to express his thanks to THOMAS HUTCHINSON, Esq., Editor of the Oxford Wordsworth, etc., etc., for kind help specified in the Notes to this Edition; to the Rev. Dr. WILLIAM KNIGHT and Messrs. MACMILLAN for permission to use two Notes contained in the Eversley Wordsworth; and to Dr. KNIGHT, in particular, for permission to make a rather larger use of his charming book, The English Lake District as interpreted in the 3 Poems of Wordsworth. |