![]() The Letters Of William And Dorothy Wordsworth Volume Viii A Supplement Of New Letters by William and Dorothy Wordsworth From the coiled tension of Dorothy's journals, she unleashes the rich emotional life of a woman determined to live on her own terms, and honors her impact on the key figures of Romanticism. In this succinct, arresting biography, Frances Wilson reveals Dorothy in all her complexity. The woman who strode the hills in all hours and all weathers would eventually retreat into the house for the last three decades of her life. Dorothy lived out the rest of her years with her brother and Mary. The tale that unfolds through her brief, electric entries reveals an intense bond between brother and sister, culminating in Dorothy's dramatic collapse on the day of William's wedding to their childhood friend Mary Hutchinson. In the famed Grasmere Journals, Dorothy kept a record of this idyllic life together. She was her brother William Wordsworth's inspiration, aide, and most valued reader, and a friend to Coleridge both borrowed from her observations of the world for their own poems.William wrote of her, "She gave me eyes, she gave me ears." In order to remain at her brother's side, Dorothy sacrificed both marriage and comfort, jealously guarding their close-knit domesticity-one marked by a startling freedom from social convention. A brilliant stylist in her own right, Dorothy was at the center of the Romantic movement of the early nineteenth century. person I have ever known," DorothyWordsworth was neither the self-effacing spinster nor the sacrificial saint of common telling. We only index and link to content provided by other sites.ĭescribed by the writer and opium addict Thomas De Quincey as "the very wildest. Disclaimer: This site does not store any files on its server. ![]()
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