Dorothy wordsworth

Dorothy Wordsworth’s Journal of a Few Months’ Residence in Portugal (1847) || A lively travelogue by William Wordsworth’s daughter Dorothy, recording her observations of the Iberian peninsula, circa 1845. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dorothy-wordsworths-journal-of-a-few-months-residence-in-portugal-1847/

This article for seniors explores the Lake District, this beautiful part of England providing inspiration for Romantic poets and travellers alike.

Two pages from Dorothy Wordsworth’s Grasmere Journal – European Romanticisms in Association

A Christmas poem by Carol Ann Duffy

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Dorothy Wordsworth 1771-1855

In the spring of 1802 Wordsworth was inspired to write "Daffodils" after a walk along the shore of Ullswater in England’s Lake District with his sister Dorothy. He almost certainly used the account of this walk as recorded in Dorothy's journal to help prompt his own later recollections. In hindsight, he is said to have claimed that the two lines he considered the best, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; were in fact composed by Dorothy. "Daffodils" has three…

The Romantic poet William Wordsworth lived in quaint little Dove Cottage, on the edge of Grasmere, from 1799 until 1808. Having spent many years living and travelling outside his home county, he saw Dove Cottage while on a walking tour with his friend and fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and realised it would be a good place for him and his sister Dorothy to settle. The years he lived there were good ones – a time when he wrote some of his best-known work including I Wandered Lonely as a…

Inquiring readers, frequent contributor, Tony Grant, has done it again and brought the 19th century alive through his discussion of poetry. One can walk the paths along Grasmere in the Lake District with him and William Wordsworth, inhaling the clean crisp air and regarding the sad cautionary tale of Martha Ray, the woman in the…