A continuous text made up of extracts from Dorothy Wordsworth''s Journal and a selection of her brother''s poems. Dorothy Wordsworth kept her Journal ''because I shall give William pleasure by it''. In doing so, she never dreamt that she was giving future readers not only the chance to enjoy her fresh and sensitive delight in the beauties that surrounded her at Grasmere but also a rare opportunity to observe ''the progress of a poet''s mind''. Colette Clark''s skilful and perceptive arrangement of Dorothy''s entries alongside William''s poems throws a unique light on his creative process, and shows how the interdependence of brother and sister was a vital part in the writing of many of his great poems. By reading these poems in relation to the Journal it is possible to trace the processes by which they were committed to paper and so achieve a fuller understanding of them. A writer in her own right, Dorothy kept her Journal sparse in personal and emotional detail. Yet there is, neverthe
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First published in London in 1888, this is the complete works of one of the great poets of English Romanticism in ten charming, compact volumes.WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850), Britain''s Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death, limned some of...
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This full edition of Wordsworth's poetical works shows how the poet was much influenced by the events of the French revolution in his youth, breaking away from the artificial diction of the Augustan and neo-classical traditions of the 18th century.
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