cadences, an unconscious fault which she naturally made no attempt to avoid, her work should stand as a very excellent example of imagistic writing.

The following poems are quoted from the journals without material change. In many instances the first person singular and the present tense have been substituted for the first person plural and the past tense. Sometimes it has seemed necessary to fill out or abbreviate a cadence, but wherever words are supplied they are articles, conjunctions or pronouns, or, if descriptive words, they are borrowed from a neighboring prosaic description of the same scene. There are occasional inversions of the cadenced phrases, as where some descriptive expression, more appropriate to the early part of the poem, was added as an afterthought. These alterations are exceedingly rare, and to point them out in detail would prolong unjustifiably these prefatory remarks. The images

are presented exactly as Dorothy Wordsworth wrote them, and the only noticeable editing has been the selection of passages, the division into verses, and the arrangement of the poems. No attempt is made either to include or to eliminate passages suggesting William Wordsworth's poems, except in the few cases where Dorothy's work, however creditable, would suffer by the compari