^{page 300 note 1} Letters of the Wordsworth Family, ed. Knight, Vol. iii, p. 121.

^{page 300 note 2} Coleridge's Letters edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge, p. 386.

^{page 300 note 3} Essay Supplementary to the Preface, 1815. Prose Works of William Wordsworth, ed. Knight, Vol. ii, p. 247.

^{page 300 note 4} Hart-Leap Well, opening stanza of Part Second.

^{page 300 note 5} Letters, iii, pp. 466, 467.

^{page 300 note 6} Prose Works, ii, p. 253.

^{page 300 note 7} Idem, ii, p. 226.

^{page 300 note 8} The Popular Ballad, p. 91.

^{page 300 note 9} Prose Works, i, p. 52.

^{page 300 note 10} Idem, i, p. 51.

^{page 300 note 11} Prose Works, i, pp. 49, 50.

^{page 300 note 12} Prose Works, i, p. 77.

^{page 300 note 13} Idem, i, p. 66.

^{page 300 note 14} The Excursion, Book i, 11. 78–80.

^{page 300 note 15} Prose Works, i, p. 71.

^{page 300 note 16} Prose Works, ii, p. 243.

^{page 300 note 17} Biographia Literaria, chap. xxii.

^{page 300 note 18} Idem, chap. xiv.

^{page 300 note 19} Letters, iii, p. 122.

^{page 300 note 20} From the sonnet, The Trosachs.

^{page 300 note 21} Letters, i, p. 343.

^{page 300 note 22} Letters, ii, p. 62. Coleridge also says in generalising, “Wordsworth should never have abandoned the contemplative position” (Table Talk, July 21, 1832).

^{page 300 note 23} Letters, iii, p. 465.

^{page 300 note 24} Prose Works, i, p. 69.

^{page 300 note 25} Cf. Professor G. L. Kittredge's Introduction to the Cambridge edition of English and Scottish Popular Ballads and his references to Professor Gummere's works.

^{page 300 note 26} Biog. Lit., chaps, xvii, xx.

^{page 300 note 27} Cf. p. 301, supra, and note. Wordsworth expressly says that some of his figures were composites (Dowden, Studies in Literature, p. 145 and note).

^{page 300 note 28} Biog. Lit., chap. xvii.

^{page 300 note 29} Traill's Life of Coleridge (English Men of Letters Series), p. 41.

^{page 300 note 30} Letters, pp. 374–5.

^{page 300 note 31} Idem, p. 374.

^{page 300 note 32} Idem, p. 387.

^{page 300 note 33} Life of Coleridge, p. 47.

^{page 300 note 34} Idem, p. 51.

^{page 300 note 35} Idem, p. 53.

^{page 300 note 36} Letters, pp. 194–5.

^{page 300 note 37} Idem, p. 197.

^{page 300 note 38} Idem, p. 387.

^{page 300 note 39} The correct form of this line is: “That we will come to harm.” Coleridge must have mixed stanzas 7 and 8 of Percy's version.

^{page 300 note 40} Quoted in Mr. J. D. Campbell's notes, Globe ed., p. 590.

^{page 300 note 41} Ibid., p. 590.

^{page 300 note 42} Ibid., p. 590, 589.

^{page 300 note 43} Quoted in Mr. Campbell's notes, Globe ed., p. 594.

^{page 300 note 44} Biog. Lit., beginning of chap. xiv.

^{page 300 note 45} Quoted in Mr. Campbell's notes, Globe ed., p. 594.

^{page 300 note 46} Quoted in Mr. Campbell's notes to the Globe ed., p. 612–3.

^{page 300 note 47} Letters, p. 317.

^{page 300 note 48} Cf. the ballad James Harris or The Demon Lover, Cambridge ed. of Ballads.

^{page 300 note 49} One of Professor Archibald MacMechan's students has discovered that all Coleridge's borrowings came from the first volume of Percy.

^{page 300 note 50} Cf. the paper read by Professor F. N. Scott before The Modern Language Association, Dec. 30th, 1913.

^{page 300 note 51} In other chapters of a proposed book on ballad influence upon English poetry since 1765 the author hopes to show that the ballad has had in general a salutary effect in modifying the extreme individualism of the Romantic Poets.