The “Topographical Description” included in Wordsworth’s River Duddon volume was the second published version of what became the Guide to the Lakes—the first edition to carry Wordsworth’s name. See introductory essay on the book’s
textual history.

A poem published in 1811 by Wordsworth’s boyhood friend. Like Wordsworth, Charles Farish went from Hawkshead School to Cambridge, where he eventually became a fellow of Queen’s College. Wordsworth refers to Farish as his “schoolfellow and friend” in “Guilt and Sorrow; or Incidents upon Salisbury Plain.”