An Examination of the Charge of Apostasy Against Wordsworth

by William Hale White

Excerpt: The main object which I have had in view is to arrange a few passages from Wordsworth's, prose and poetical works in such a way as to let him defend himself. No apology therefore is necessary for the length of the quotations.
I have to thank Professor Knight for permission to make extracts from his "Life of William Wordsworth," and I am also indebted to Mr. Ernest Hartley Coleridge for similar permission to copy parts of letters published in his "Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge."
To Mr. T. Hutchinson, Editor of the "Oxford Wordsworth," and of the reprint of the "Poems in Two Volumes" of 1807, I am under special obligation for many valuable suggestions.

First published January 1, 1976

About the author

William Hale White, known by his pseudonym Mark Rutherford, was a British writer and civil servant.