Home at Grasmere: The Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth and the Poems of William Wordsworth
A European Literature, Autobiography, Nonfiction book. I started reading this book during a holiday in the Lake District on a...
Synopsis 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...
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- Pages: 304 pages
- ISBN: 9780140431360 / 140431365
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828.709 H7651 1978 Frankly, I'm not in love with Wordsworth. I loved Dorothy Wordsworth's entries, but I'm not so much into poetry that I automatically go into conniptions at the mere thought of William Wordsworth's poetry. However, this was a decent book. I started reading this book during a holiday in the Lake District on a day when we visited Grasmere. I had part studied it about 15 years ago for A level and found reading the prose of Dorothy's diary alongside William's poetry absolutely fascinating and something I'd always promised myself that I'd return to some day. I'd some idea...
