Editions
After their initial publication, several of the essays appeared in the second volume of Selections Grave and Gay (1854), the first British collected edition of De Quincey's works. For that edition, the author edited his essays, trimming some passages but adding others. The essays were reprinted again in a separate volume, as Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets (1862); that title may or may not have originated with De Quincey.
There were three twentieth-century editions of the essays. Edward Sackville-West's Recollections of the Lake Poets (1948) and John E. Jordan's Reminiscences of the English Lake Poets (1961) both relied primarily upon the 1854 revised texts; for his 1970 edition, David Wright returned to the original magazine texts and to the title of the 1862 collection.
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