With Coleridge, author of Lyrical Ballads (1798), Wordsworth survived his early unpopularity to succeed Robert Southey as poet laureate in 1843.

CORRESPONDENCE OF William Wordsworth:

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth [30 January 1801] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 5 March 1803 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

William Wordsworth to Walter Scott, 16 October 1803 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth [13 October 1804] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth [18 February 1805] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth [19 February 1805] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth [4 March 1805] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth 21 March 1805 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth [5 April 1805] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to William and Dorothy Wordsworth, 28 September 1805 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

William Wordsworth to Walter Scott, 7 November 1805 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 1 February 1806 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth 26 June 1806 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth 11 December 1806 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 29 January 1807 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 29 September 1808 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 19 October 1810 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

William Wordsworth to William Godwin, 9 March 1811 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 12 January 1813 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 5 May 1814 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 9 August 1814 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, [19 September 1814] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, [28 December 1814] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, [7 January 1815] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, [16 April 1815] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, [28 April 1815] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 9 August 1815 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 9 April 1816 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Robert Southey to William Wordsworth, 22 April 1816 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 26 April 1815 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, [23 September 1816] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 13 May 1817 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, [26 April 1819] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, [7 June 1819] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, [16 September 1822] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 20 March 1822 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, [January 1823] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 21 January 1825 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 19 February 1825 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 23 March [1825] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 6 April 1825 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, [May 1825] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, [3 May 1825] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 15 August [1825] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, [6 September 1826] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

William Wordsworth to John Murray, 4 December 1826 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 10 March 1827 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 20 September [1827] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 1 December [1827] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, [19 April 1828] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, [May 1828 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 2 August 1828 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

William Wordsworth to William Jerdan, 7 October [1828] in The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, [22 January 1830] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 5 June [1830] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 16 June [1830] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, [30 July 1830] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 19 October [1830] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 14 June [1831] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 7 November 1831 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, May 1833 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 14 January [1834] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 22 February 1834 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Samuel Rogers to William Wordsworth, [August 1834] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 5 April [1835] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 4 May 1835 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

Robert Southey to William Wordsworth, 9 May 1835 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, [27 June 1835] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 28 September [1835] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, [18 February 1836] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

Samuel Rogers to William Wordsworth, [March 1848] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 16 March 1848 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)