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John Wilson to William Wordsworth (1802): a new text.(Critical Essay)

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From: Wordsworth Circle
Date: 20030322
Author:Dundas, Philip

John Wilson was profoundly affected by his first reading of Lyrical Ballads. At age sixteen in June, 1802, he wrote a remarkably insightful letter to Wordsworth praising the volume--to which Wordsworth replied ["William Wordsworth's Letter to John Wilson, 1802: A Corrected Version," ed. John O. Hayden, TWC, XVIII (1987)33-38]. This sensitivity to Wordsworth's poetic philosophy was rare at the time, and began a relationship, which, despite controversy, was always marked by Wilson's high regard for Wordsworth's poetry. Many years later in an essay in Blackwood's Magazine, Wilson, as ...

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