Ode: Intimations of Immortality
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ne of the two pictures of "Peele Castle in a Storm"--engraved by S. W.Reynolds, and published in the editions of Wordsworth's poems of 1815and 1820--is still in the Beaumont Gallery at Coleorton Hall. The poem is so memorable that I have arranged to make this picture of"Peele Castle in a Storm," the vignette to vol. xv. of this edition. Itdeserves to be noted that it was to the pleading of Barron Field that weowe the restoration of the original line of 1807, 'The light that never was, on sea or land.' An interesting account of Piel Castle will be found in Hearne andByrne's 'Antiquities'. It was built by the Abbot of Furness in the firstyear of the reign of Edward III.--Ed. [Footnote B: Miss Arnold wrote to me, in December 1893: "I have never doubted that the Peele Castle of Wordsworth is the Piel off Walney Island. I know that my brother Matthew so believed, and I went with him some years ago from Furness Abbey over to Piel, visiting it as the subject of the picture and the poem." Ed.]
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