Dorothy Wordsworth Bücher

Ende1799 zieht Dorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855) mit ihrem Bruder, dem Dichter William Wordsworth (1770–1850), nach Grasmere. Wenig später lässt sich auch Williams Dichterfreund Samuel Taylor Coleridge in der Nähe nieder: "drei Menschen, doch nur eine Seele". Die Stunde der 'Lake Poets', der frühen Glanzzeit englischer Romantik hat geschlagen. Das in England längst berühmte, jetzt erstmals ins Deutsche übersetzte "Grasmere-Journal" bietet einen unvergleichlichen Zugang zum Leben der Wordsworths in der urwüchsigen Landschaft des Lake District. Ergänzt wird die Ausgabe durch zwei kurze Journale von 1798: das Alfoxden-Tagebuch und die Aufzeichnungen einer Reise nach Deutschland.

This collection focuses on republishing classic works from the early 1900s and earlier, which have become rare and costly. The editions are designed to be affordable while maintaining high quality, featuring the original text and artwork, ensuring that these timeless pieces remain accessible to modern readers.

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.

A continuous text made up of extracts from Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal and a selection of her brother's poems. Dorothy Wordsworth kept her Journal 'because I shall give William pleasure by it'. In doing so, she never dreamt that she was giving future readers not only the chance to enjoy her fresh and sensitive delight in the beauties that surrounded her at Grasmere but also a rare opportunity to observe 'the progress of a poet's mind'.Colette Clark's skilful and perceptive arrangement of Dorothy's entries alongside William's poems throws a unique light on his creative process, and shows how the interdependence of brother and sister was a vital part in the writing of many of his great poems. By reading these poems in relation to the Journal it is possible to trace the processes by which they were committed to paper and so achieve a fuller understanding of them.A writer in her own right, Dorothy kept her Journal sparse in personal and emotional detail. Yet there is, nevertheless, a deep emotional undercurrent running beneath the surface which only falters when William marries Mary Hutchinson. Never again was Dorothy to achieve the freedom, spontaneity and the limpidly beautiful prose with which she infused and irradiated the Grasmere Journals.