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| | MSN Encarta - William Wordsworth |
 | | To Wordsworth, God was everywhere manifest in the harmony of nature, and he felt deeply the kinship between nature and the soul of humankind. | | | Much of Wordsworth's easy flow of conversational blank verse has true lyrical power and grace, and his finest work is permeated by a sense of the human relationship to external nature that is religious in its scope and intensity. | | | Wordsworth wrote almost all the poems in the volume, including the memorable “Tintern Abbey”; Coleridge contributed the famous “Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” Representing a revolt against the artificial classicism of contemporary English verse, Lyrical Ballads was greeted with hostility by most leading critics of the day. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761572396
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| | Gauthier: Review of The Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth |
| | William Wordsworth, her brother, revolutionized the language of poetry, and some of his blank verse, which was written two hundred years ago, reads as if it was written yesterday. | | | Dorothy tried to continue writing it, but before long, the entries started to dwindle, and they lost their sense of wonder at nature’s beauty. | | | It is significant that Dorothy continued to live with William and Mary Wordsworth, and was still living with them at the time of William’s death in 1850. |
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http://www.odresher.addr.com/reviews/wordsworth-p.htm
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| | William Wordsworth: A Hypertextual Biography |
| | Wordsworth refused to include "Christabel," and the 1800 edition, far from the anonymous partnership of the first, would bear Wordsworth's name and his alone. | | | Speaking of themselves and Dorothy, Wordsworth would later say, "we were three persons with one soul." Day after day, Wordsworth and Coleridge would write poetry, discuss their theories on poetry, and comment on each other's poems. | | | Wordsworth's disillusionment with the French Revolution has a long and complicated progress (going back even to the Reign of Terror), but this is certainly an important milestone in the poet's turn to conservatism. |
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http://members.aol.com/wordspage/bio.htm
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| | William Wordsworth - Books and Biography |
| | Wordsworth was of a good height (five feet ten), and not a slender man; on the contrary, by the side of Southey, his limbs looked thick, almost in a disproportionate degree. | | | Wordsworth abandoned his radical faith and became a patriotic, conservative public man. In 1843 he succeeded Robert Southgey (1774-1843) as England's poet laureate. | | | However, the magnificent landscape deeply affected Wordsworth's imagination and gave him a love of nature. |
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http://www.readprint.com/author-92/William-Wordsworth
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| | Dorothy Wordsworth |
| | Placed alongside these poems, however, some of Dorothy's passages suggest that William may have been inspired as much by her language as by events and appearances in the external world; and recently, Dorothy Wordsworth has come to light as a writer in her own right. | | | Her Grasmere journal is a fascinating chronicle of early nineteenth-century life in the Lake District—full of brilliantly detailed descriptions of nature (admired by Virginia Woolf), accounts of domestic life and household labors, precise observations of the people, the social textures and economic distresses of rural England. | | | In the cast of characters that cross her pages—children, neighbors, local laborers, tinkers and itinerants, beggars and vagrants, abandoned wives and mothers, a leech-gatherer, discharged and often injured soldiers, sailors, and veterans—Dorothy Wordsworth captures, as much as her brother hoped his poetry would, the "language really used by men" (and women). |
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http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/damrosch_awl/chapter5/medialib/dwordsworth.html
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| | Dorothy Wordsworth was never immersed in nature and William Wordsworth; she stood on her reciprocal relation to others. | | | Dorothy observes that "The man [the woman beggar's husband] did not beg" (37). | | | In other words, Dorothy seems to imply the subjectivity of her self that has been considered as a silenced voice by her contemporaries and the modern readers. |
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http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/los/dchoi.html
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| | William Wordsworth |
| | Wordsworth's last major work in prose represents a return to his earliest interest in the land and scenery of the English Lake District. | | | In 1822 Wordsworth returned to his introduction, expanding it into a book most commonly known as A Guide through the District of the Lakes, which continues to be republished in a variety of editions. | | | This preface, Wordsworth's only extended statement of his poetics, has become the source of many of the commonplaces and controversies of poetic theory and criticism. |
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http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/Lisle/dial/wordsworth.html
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| | Dorothy Wordsworth: Sister and Poet |
| | Dorothy was an interesting topic--almost like the reclusive Emily Dickinson except... | | | Compare, however, her brother’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," first printed in 1807: “When all at once I saw a crowd, / A host, of golden daffodils, / Beside the lake, beneath the trees, / Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.” His spontaneity seems to be, in part, a borrowed impulsiveness. | | | British Literature - Dorothy Wordsworth: Sister and Poet - http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/6021/51649 |
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http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/6021/51649
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| | CSC Conferences & Symposia |
| | We must bear in mind that it is to catch him up that the accusations against Dorothy are really made, since she, like William, is said to belong to "Wordsworth's milieu," with all of the unflattering insinuations that assignment to that milieu carries with it. | | | But if we can acquit Dorothy Wordsworth of the charge of simply being a conduit for the most prejudiced of middle-class values, a smugly uncritical faith in the ethos of the nuclear family and a corresponding animus against the poor for failing to adhere to that ethos, what of her brother? | | | This is, of course, the tale of a "poor man," one who does not, however, demonstrate the propensity of the poor to drink and be promiscuous and to neglect and even abandon their children, the view of the poor which Liu "ventriloquistically" tells us was propagated in middle-class households like those of the Wordsworths. |
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http://cohesion.rice.edu/humanities/csc/conferences.cfm?doc_id=360
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| | Jill Heydt-Stevenson, On Matlak's _The Poetry of Relationship_ - Romantic Circles Reviews, Romantic Circles |
| | whether Wordsworth's argument finally achieved the single-mindedness of Donne's 'dialogue of one' that derives from the perfect fusion of souls, or whether it remained, as it began, a 'dialogue of one' point of view" (137). | | | This profound impact of Zoonomia influences the corporal texture of Wordsworth's images; it served as "an empirical foundation for natural morality and an essentially new vision for poetry" (118). | | | Readers, too, will perhaps find that Matlak's emphasis on Wordsworth's guilt offers a counter-idea to the image of the confident poet who lived in a kind of domestic bliss, first with Dorothy and then with Dorothy and Mary. |
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http://www.rc.umd.edu/reviews/back/matlak.html
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| | Women of Romantic Poetry |
| | Dorothy's contributions to William's poetical canon are immeasurable, but she also wrote poems herself. | | | By comparing her journal entries with poems Wordsworth subsequently composed, one may note the stimulus Dorothy was for William's poetic inspiration. | | | He called her "the sister of my soul" (in The Prelude, XIII), and her Grasmere Journal was a direct inspiration to him for such poems as Daffodils and Resolution and Independence. |
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http://romantic_poetry.agnesscott.edu/women.htm
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| | Nordlit |
| | This quality comes not only from her tone of mastery she represents herself as knowing what good arrangements are, how kitchens should work but from the importance she gives this information, which is arranged with some care for the clarity of the scene. | | | But with these exceptions, domestic labor remains invisible and this is as true of diaries and travel accounts as it is of fiction and novels, and as true of women writers as of men. | | | As she puts it in Recollections, Scotland's preeminent advantage for "a man of imagination" and her is that "there are so many inhabited solitudes, and the employments are so immediately connected with the places where you find them" (214). |
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http://www.hum.uit.no/nordlit/1/wallace.html
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| | The Wordsworths |
| | She records, for example, an image of the moon that bears a striking resemblance with the evening sky of Part I of "Christabel." On 31 January 1798, Dorothy writes "...the moon immensely large, the sky scattered with clouds. | | | On 22 December 1830, Robert John Tennant writes to Lord Tennyson, describing a visit with Wordsworth in which Wordsworth offered more specific comments on "Christabel": Wordsworth "said he wished that Coleridge had not written the second part of Christabel because that required the tale to be finished. | | | If the 1300 or 1400-line copy of the poem that Coleridge refers to in his letters ever existed, it has not survived. |
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http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/1998/v/n10/005806arp032.html
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| | jenS.html |
| | William and Dorothy Wordsworth, poets and siblings, had a very close relationship with one another as well as a special relationship with nature. | | | Have the students think about the connection Wordsworth is trying to make betwen nature, God and the self. | | | For example, line 18 "What wealth the show to me had brought:" Wordsworth uses the word wealth to portray the pleasure and joy that he gets out of this experience. |
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http://www.humboldt.edu/~teg1/syllabus/406/students/fall97/2/jenS.html
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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Dorothy Wordsworth |
| | She was moved to Miss Medlin's school in Halifax, where the curriculum was essentially practical, but her reading included Milton and Shakespeare, Richardson and Fielding, poetry by Hayley and Goldsmith, The Odyssey in translation, and Lesage's Gil Blas in French. | | | The poem was composed between three and eight months after Dorothy's Journal passage was written. | | | Much of the day to day running of the household continued to be Dorothy's responsibility while Mary was child bearing. |
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http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4803
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| | William Wordsworth Walking: Art, Work, Leisure, and a Curious Form of Consumption |
| | There was probably no compelling reason for Wordsworth and Dorothy to walk twice to the Black Swan or for Wordsworth and Mary to circumambulate the lakes. | | | But for Wordsworth's poetic project, to admit up front that walking is a form of directed activity to mine poetic materials is a bit of a problem. | | | But this over-expenditure is also the sense that I at least derive from reading of Wordsworth and his walking. |
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http://www.english.iup.edu/mhayward/Recent/Wordsworth.htm
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| | Wordsworth, William. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | In 1842 Wordsworth was given a civil list pension, and the following year, having long since put aside radical sympathies, he was named poet laureate. | | | by H. Darbishire (2 vol., 1958); biography by E. de Selincourt (1933); A. Ellis, Rebels and Conservatives: Dorothy and William Wordsworth and Their Circle (1967); E. Hardwick, Seduction and Betrayal (1974). | | | Dickinson, E. Eliot, T.S. Frost, R. Hopkins, G.M. Keats, J. Lawrence, D.H. Masters, E.L. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordsworth, W. Yeats, W.B. All Nonfiction |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/wo/WordswthW.html
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| | Miall -- "Tintern", Frappied on Loss |
| | Paragraph five consists of six sentences: in the first three the poet reflects on what kind of "viewer" he once was and in the last three describes what he has learned since (in what way he is now a different "viewer"). | | | These critics believe that William never gets outside of the orbit of his sublime meditations and that he uses Dorothy for his own poetic ends. | | | The verses engraved upon it expressed that she had been neglected by her Relations & counselled the Readers of those words to look within & recollect their own frailties. |
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http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~dmiall/TinternRev/Sheree_2.htm
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| | [minstrels] Daffodils -- William Wordsworth |
| | They were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure. | | | [...] The three or four years that followed his return to England were the darkest of Wordsworth's life. | | | ," namely, "that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her." [...] Wordsworth moved on in 1787 to St. John's College, Cambridge. |
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http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/63.html
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| | Talkin' Broadway Regional News & Reviews: Los Angeles - "Grasmere" - 8/30/02 |
| | Wordsworth does not want to hand Coleridge the answers to his questions, but to force Coleridge, as best he can, to find them himself. | | | History tells us Wordsworth married Mary Hutchinson, Dorothy's childhood friend, in 1802; so does Grasmere. | | | The men have delightful scenes together as they engage in friendly debate, both intellectual and silly. |
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http://www.talkinbroadway.com/regional/la/la62.html
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| | §5. Dorothy Wordsworth. V. William Wordsworth. Vol. 11. The Period of the French Revolution. The Cambridge History ... |
| | Wordsworth and Dorothy were equally fond of natural scenery. | | | Dickinson, E. Eliot, T.S. Frost, R. Hopkins, G.M. Keats, J. Lawrence, D.H. Masters, E.L. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordsworth, W. Yeats, W.B. All Nonfiction | | | Dorothy’s letters make their mutual love known to us and let us into depths of Wordsworth’s nature, scarcely revealed by his poems. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/221/0505.html
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| | Dorothy Wordsworth |
| | Dorothy and William moved a few more times, finally settling at Rydal Mount with William's wife Mary, their three surviving children, and Mary's sister. | | | The intimate relationship between William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Dorothy Wordsworth comes through in their canonical works. | | | Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855) was an English prose writer who wrote in "exquisite, delicate prose." She is famous for her diaries and "recollections," which are her reflections on nature, English country life, and her travels in Europe. |
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http://www.yudev.com/mfo/britlit/wordsworth_dorothy.htm
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| | Dorothy Wordsworth on Scafell Pike |
| | We laughed heartily; and, I hope, when again inclined to be positive, I may remember the ship and the horse upon the glittering sea; and the calm confidence, yet submissiveness, of our wise Man of the Mountains, who certainly had more knowledge of clouds than we, whatever might be our knowledge of ships. | | | She first saw the "ship", and it was Mary who so confidently confirmed her view. | | | We knew that the storm would pass away;- for so our prophetic Guide had assured us. |
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http://freespace.virgin.net/past.presented/wordsworth1.htm
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The Later Years Vol 7: Books |
| | This new edition of The Later Years contains over six hundred letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth that have never been published before, and many more that have appeared only in fragmentary or incorrect form. | | | Customers who bought books by William Wordsworth also bought books by these authors: | | | Above all, his correspondence bears witness to his lifelong commit |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0198126069
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| | zoak's English 3622 blog: How is this supposed to go? |
| | Dorothy doesn't bother explaining, describing, or introducing, which sometimes gets confusing-- I'm having trouble keeping track of her many friends, neighbours, and penpals. | | | As trying as it sometimes is to read page after page of brief entries about Dorothy's chores, acquaintances, and walks, I find myself actually liking her. | | | Dorothy Wordsworth was apparently the sister of the William Wordsworth. |
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http://zoak23.blogspot.com/2005/01/how-is-this-supposed-to-go.html
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| | Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 96048921 |
| | In particular, he gives long-overdue credit to Dorothy Wordsworth for her profound influence on her brother's major verse, and the effect their relationship had on the work of Coleridge, causing us to view all creative relationships in a new light. | | | He examines the intimate relationship between the three writers for clues to their poems, providing a major reinterpretation of their canonical works based on psychological and intertextual contexts. | | | Publisher description for The poetry of relationship : the Wordsworths and Coleridge, 1797-1800 / Richard E. Matlak. |
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol055/96048921.html
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| | DOROTHY WORDSWORTH - LoveToKnow Article on DOROTHY WORDSWORTH |
| | (1771-1855), English writer and diarist, was the third child and only daughter of John Wordsworth of Cockermouth and his wife, Anne Cookson-Crackanthorpe. | | | The poet William Wordsworth was her brother and a year her senior. | | | From this time forth her life ran on lines closely parallel to those of her great brother, whose companion she continued to be till his death. |
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http://33.1911encyclopedia.org/W/WO/WORDSWORTH_DOROTHY.htm
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| | Dorothy Wordsworth & the Romantic Sensibility |
| | Nature has a power of her own outside of man's grasp. | | | Thesis: Dorothy Wordsworth's writing is read today for her conscious portrayal of nature and the insight she provides into her own romantic sensibility and the lives of people in her circle and community. | | | Dorothy passes no moral judgements; nor does she reveal her political views. |
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http://www.faculty.umb.edu/elizabeth_fay/dwords.html
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| | Dr. Karen Droisen: Dorothy Wordsworth |
| | Provide at least three quotations to illustrate your discussion. | | | You should write no more than 125 words to answer this question. | | | Choose a brief passage from Dorothy Wordsworth's Journals and write an analysis of it in which you identify and comment on some specific and distinguishing aspect of its form and/or content. |
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http://www.unlv.edu/faculty/droisen/434dw.htm
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| | William Wordsworth |
| | Influenced by the ideas of William Godwin, Wordsworth was an early supporter of the French Revolution. | | | Three years later William Wordsworth married Mary Hutchinson. | | | His friend, Samuel Coleridge, who had also renounced his early revolutionary beliefs, lived three miles away at Nether Stowey. |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jwordsworth.htm
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| | Wordsworth and Dorothy |
| | Her Grasmere Journals chronicle life at Dove Cottage and provide insights into the different personalities of the Wordsworth circle; as well as containing many evocative descriptions of nature. | | | Wordsworth often used Dorothy's journal as a starting point for poems, but more than this he recognised her importance to him in their shared response to the world around them. | | | The thought of her was like a flash of light |
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http://www.wordsworth.org.uk/?Page=116
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| | Better news came in 1843, when he was appointed Poet Laureate, upon Southey's death. | | | He was finally reunited for good with his sister Dorothy in 1794. | | | In 1798 (called the _annus_mirabilis_, because of Wordsworth's great outpouring of great verse), he & Coleridge published _Lyrical_Ballads_, firing the first major salvo of the Romantic revolt in England. |
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http://www.usd.edu/~tgannon/txts/wordsbio.txt
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| | The San Antonio College LitWeb William Wordsworth Page |
| | Penguin has published an ample amount of Wordsworth's poetry and prose works in relatively inexpensive editions. | | | The culmination of a work begun fifty years before, it was first published together with the 1805 version in 1926. | | | The Letters of William Wordsworth: A New Selection. |
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http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/wordswor.htm
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| | Links |
| | The Bartleby Archive of the Complete Poetical Works All of Wordsworth's poetry online. | | | A Brief History of William and Dorothy Wordsworth | | | A discussion of Wordsworth and his sister, along with links to photographs of the Lake District. |
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http://members.aol.com/wordspage/links.htm
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| | Wordsworth |
| | Dorothy Wordsworth (his sister), Mary Wordsworth (his wife), Catherine, Thomas and Dora Wordsworth (his children), Sara Hutchinson (Mary's sister) and Hartley Coleridge (son of S.T. Coleridge) | | | Wordsworth had a deep love of nature that was inspired by his rural childhood. | | | See also allusion, Lake Poets, romanticism and 'Poets on Poetry'. |
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http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/wordsworth.htm
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| | The Wordsworth Trust |
| | Dove Cottage was home to the Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and his family for 8½ years (1799-1808). | | | Wordsworth loved and drew inspiration from this landscape of the Lake District, his home. | | | Here Wordsworth wrote many of his most famous poems. |
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http://www.wordsworth.org.uk
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| | William Wordsworth |
| | William Wordsworth: Assessment - Assessment Wordsworth's personality and poetry were deeply influenced by his love of nature,... | | | William Wordsworth: Bibliography - Bibliography See his poetical works, ed. | | | William Wordsworth: Life and Works - Life and Works In 1791 he graduated from Cambridge and traveled abroad. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0852717.html
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| | dorothy |
| | Here she describes the spring flowers that would become the subject for perhaps her brother William's most famous poem: "When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the water side. | | | Dorothy Wordsworth was an engaged and engaging naturalist in her own right. | | | It would take her poetic brother two years of imaginative effort to turn this wonderfully immediate natural description into "When all at once I saw a crowd, / A host, of golden daffodils." (A.N.) |
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http://www.dickinson.edu/~nicholsa/Romnat/dorothy.htm
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| | Dorothy Wordsworth, "Thoughts on my Sickbed" |
| | Dorothy Wordsworth, "Thoughts on my Sickbed" (composed c. | | | * the terrace-walk: at Rydal Mount, the Wordsworth's home, a terrace led from the side of the house to the side of the mountain overlooking Rydal Water and Lake Windermere | | | * I saw the green banks of the Wye: Dorothy recalls her trip with William to the Wye valley in July 1798, the trip that prompted William's "Tintern Abbey" |
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http://www.umd.umich.edu/casl/hum/eng/classes/236/dwordsworth1.html
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| | Wordsworth and Hill (1990) Letters of Dorothy Wordsworth: A selection |
| | Lake District (England); Social life and customs; Women authors, English; Romanticism; Correspondence; 19th century; England; Wordsworth, Dorothy; Wordworth family | | | Wordsworth and Hill (1990) Letters of Dorothy Wordsworth: A selection | | | To view the the latter's ratings, click on Chapters/Papers/Articles in the STATISTICS box, select a publication from the list that appears, and then click on either Quality or Interest in that publication's STATISTICS box. |
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http://www.getcited.org/?PUB=102867246&showStat=Ratings
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| | Details of Dorothy Wordsworth |
| | Use the tabs on the right of this page to see other parts of this entry | | | Shairp, J.C. (ed.) (1974) Recollections of a Tour made in Scotland A.D. 1803, by Dorothy Wordsworth. |
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http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/people/famousdetails210.html
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