Dorothy And William Wordsworth
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Author | : Lucy Newlyn |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2013-09-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 019969639X |
William and Dorothy Wordsworth is the first literary biography of the Wordsworths' creative collaboration. Using poems, letters, journals, memoirs, and biographies, it plots the intertwined lives of the Wordsworth siblings and their writing.
Author | : Dorothy Wordsworth |
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Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1904 |
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Author | : Dorothy Wordsworth |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2008-07-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0199536872 |
These two journals provide a unique picture of daily life with Wordsworth, his friendship with Coleridge, and the composition of his poems. They also offer wonderfully vivid descriptions of the landscape and people of Grasmere and Alfoxden in Somerset, which inspired Wordsworth and have enchanted generations of readers. This edition includes full explanatory notes on the people and places Dorothy writes about.
Author | : Polly Atkin |
Publisher | : Saraband |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2022-04-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1915089654 |
The first book to focus on Dorothy Wordsworth’s later life and work and the impact of her disability – allowing her to step out from her brother’s shadow and back into her own life story. Dorothy Wordsworth is well known as the author of the Alfoxden and Grasmere Journals (1798–1803) and as the sister of the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. She is widely praised for her nature writing and is often remembered as a woman of great physical vitality. Less well known, however, is that Dorothy became seriously ill in 1829 and was mostly housebound for the last twenty years of her life. Her personal letters and unpublished journals from this time paint a portrait of a compassionate and creative woman who made her sickroom into a garden for herself and her pet robin and who finally grew to call herself a poet. They also reveal how vital Dorothy was to her brother’s success, and the closeness they shared as siblings. By re-examining her life through the perspective of her illness, this biography allows Dorothy Wordsworth to step out from her brother’s shadow and back into her own life story.
Author | : Catherine MacDonald Maclean |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1107619270 |
This 1927 volume contains a series of short essays on the lives and works of Dorothy and William Wordsworth.
Author | : Dorothy Wordsworth |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780192831309 |
Dorothy Wordsworth's The Grasmere Journals, begun in May 1800 while at Dove Cottage, and continued for nearly three years until January 1803, is perhaps the best-loved of all journals. Noting the walks and the weather, the friends, country neighbors and beggars on the roads, William Wordsworth's marriage, the composition of poetry, and their concern for Coleridge, her words bring those first years to vivid and intimate life. This edition has been prepared directly from the manuscripts with undeciphered words clarified, first thoughts, later insertions and deletions indicated, and Dorothy's hasty punctuation largely restored. It also offers rich explanatory notes, containing much new detail on friends and family, the scarcely-known people of the Grasmere valley, the books that were read, and the connections with William Wordsworth's poetry.
Author | : Catherine Macdonald Maclean |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
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Author | : Lucy Newlyn |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2013-09-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0191504653 |
William Wordsworth's creative collaboration with his 'beloved Sister' spanned nearly fifty years, from their first reunion in 1787 until her premature decline in 1835. Rumours of incest have surrounded the siblings since the 19th century, but Lucy Newlyn sees their cohabitation as an expression of deep emotional need, arising from circumstances peculiar to their family history. Born in Cockermouth and parted when Dorothy was six by the death of their mother, the siblings grew up separately and were only reunited four years after their father had died, leaving them destitute. How did their orphaned consciousness shape their understanding of each other? What part did traumatic memories of separation play in their longing for a home? How fully did their re-settlement in the Lake District recompense them for the loss of a shared childhood? Newlyn shows how William and Dorothy's writings — closely intertwined with their regional affiliations — were part of the lifelong work of jointly re-building their family and re-claiming their communal identity. Walking, talking, remembering, and grieving were as important to their companionship as writing; and at every stage of their adult lives they drew nourishment from their immediate surroundings. This is the first book to bring the full range of Dorothy's writings into the foreground alongside her brother's, and to give each sibling the same level of detailed attention. Newlyn explores the symbiotic nature of their creative processes through close reading of journals, letters and poems — sometimes drawing on material that is in manuscript. She uncovers detailed interminglings in their work, approaching these as evidence of their deep affinity. The book offers a spirited rebuttal of the myth that the Romantic writer was a 'solitary genius', and that William Wordsworth was a poet of the 'egotistical sublime' — arguing instead that he was a poet of community, 'carrying everywhere with him relationship and love'. Dorothy is not presented as an undervalued or exploited member of the Wordsworth household, but as the poet's equal in a literary partnership of outstanding importance. Newlyn's book is deeply researched, drawing on a wide range of recent scholarship — not just in Romantic studies, but in psychology, literary theory, anthropology and life-writing. Yet it is a personal book, written with passion by a scholar-poet and intended to be of some practical use and inspirational value to non-specialist readers. Adopting a holistic approach to mental and spiritual health, human relationships, and the environment, Newlyn provides a timely reminder that creativity thrives best in a gift economy.
Author | : Susan M. Levin |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2009-08-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 078644164X |
Like her more famous brother William, Dorothy Wordsworth was also an important writer. Yet her work has found a wide readership only in recent years. Appearing in 1987, the first edition of this book was the first full-length scholarly study of the author and was also the first to collect her poems, discovered at Dove cottage and in other libraries. This new edition adds critical readings based on the latest research into Wordsworth's life and work and will further the argument for her place among the important writers of Romanticism.
Author | : Dorothy Wordsworth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1874 |
Genre | : Scotland |
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