The Grasmere Journals
Description:... Dorothy Wordsworth's The Grasmere Journals is perhaps one of the best loved journals in English literature. Begun in May 1800 to give her poet-brother William pleasure, and continued for nearly three years until January 1803, her words bring the first years of her life at Dove Cottage to vivid and intimate life. She notes the walks and the weather, the friends and country neighbors, and beggars on the roads. She tells of William's marriage, the Wordsworth's concern for Coleridge, and of the composition of poetry. The original manuscripts have been freshly edited for this edition, with first thoughts, later insertions and deletions indicted, new readings of undeciphered or misread words, and Dorothy's hasty punctuation restored. It also offers rich explanatory notes, containing much new detail on friends and family, the scarecly-known people of Grasmere valley, the books that were read, and on connections with William Wordsworth's poetry, illuminating every aspect of this marvellous personal record.
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