Published Editions and Extracts of Home at Grasmere

Lifetime editions	No lifetime editions. Unpublished. Two fair copy MSS: MS B and MS D.
1810	Lines 141-144 of MS B quoted from in the first edition of Guide to the Lakes (Intro. to Joseph Wilkinson, Select Views in Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, London: 1810), xviii.
1814	Publication of The Prospectus and of sections originally written for Home at Grasmere in The Excursion. (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1814). "Happy is he" from MS R at IV, 335-353 and the tales of Wilfred Armathwaite and the widowed father with six daughters from MS B at VI, 1101-1128.
1823	Extracts from the poem published in the second edition of Guide to the Lakes (A Description of the Scenery of the Lakes in the North of England. 4th ed. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823. p. 49, Lines 141-144 and p.20-21, lines 292-315 of MS B.
1836	The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: A New Edition. 6 vols. (London: Edward Moxon, 1836). Poem "Water-Fowl" II, 187-188 introduced by a three line reference to the Guide.
1851	Extracts published in Memoirs of William Wordsworth. 2 vols. Christopher Wordsworth. (London: Edward Moxon, 1851). Extracts from I, 155-158 (MS D lines 71-97 and 110-125; 152-167).

*1888	The Recluse by William Wordsworth, (no editor given). (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1888). *First publication of full poem. MS D copy text.
1888	The Recluse in The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. The Globe Edition. Intro. John Morley. London and New York, Macmillan and Co., 1888. MS D copy text.
1889	The Life of William Wordsworth 3 vols. Ed. William Knight. Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1889. Vol. 1, Chapter XIV, 232-254. (MS D copy text).
1891	The Recluse by William Wordsworth. 2nd ed. London: Macmillan and Co., 1891.
[1896	The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Ed. William Knight. London and New York: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1896. Knight publishes the same extracts as in the Memoirs, with contextual information (II, 117-124; MS D lines 71-97 and 110-125; 152-167).
1904	The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Cambridge Edition. Ed. Bliss Perry. "Wordsworth" by Andrew J. George (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1904). MS D copy text.

1935	The Excursion preceded by Book I of The Recluse by William Wordsworth. Ed. E. E. Reynolds. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1935). MS D copy text.
1949	The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth 5 vols. V. The Excursion; The Recluse: Part I, Book I. E. De Selincourt and Helen Darbishire. (Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1949). (MS D copy text).
1960	Home at Grasmere: Extracts from the Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth and from the Poems of William Wordsworth. Colette Clark. (London: Penguin, 1960). Popular edition: lines 1-188 of MS D only given.
1977	Home at Grasmere Part First, Book First of The Recluse by William Wordsworth. Ed. Beth Darlington. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977).
1982	William Wordsworth, The Borders of Vision. Jonathan Wordsworth. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982). Appendix gives earliest version of "The Prospectus" from DC MS 45; a version of Home at Grasmere following the Cornell Edition.
1993	The Wordsworths and the Lakes: Home at Grasmere. Penelope Hughes-Hallett. (London: Collins and Brown, 1993). Popular edition, with illustrations. An extremely misleading title since the book contains no material from Home at Grasmere whatsoever.