Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth

Wordsworths exquisite sister, as Coleridge described her, was not only the cherished companion of two great poets but herself a poet in prose. The journals she kept at Alfoxden in 1798, when her brother and Coleridge were composing the Lyrical Ballads, and at Grasmere from 1800 to 1803, when she and Wordsworth were living at Dove Cottage, are more than a valuable record of their day-to-day life, for Dorothy combined an intense and genuine poetic imagination, whose influence can be seen in many of Wordsworths poems of the period, printed in an appendix to this volume. In this new edition by Mary Moorman the Grasmere journal is printed for the first time as Dorothy wrote it, the text having been carefully revised, particularly as regards punctuation, use of capital letters and italics, from the manuscript notebooks in the Library at Dove Cottage. A number of erased passages, hitherto undeciphered, have been recovered, and Mrs. Moorman has supplied many new notes, both topographic... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth