num_pages: 304
description: Dorothy Wordsworth's The Grasmere Journals , begun in May 1800 while at Dove Cottage, and continued for nearly three years until January 1803, is perhaps the best-loved of all journals. Noting the walks and the weather, the friends, country neighbors and beggars on the roads, WilliamWordsworth's marriage, the composition of poetry, and their concern for Coleridge, her words bring those first years to vivid and intimate life. This edition has been prepared directly from the manuscripts with undeciphered words clarified, first thoughts, later insertions and deletions indicated,and Dorothy's hasty punctuation largely restored. It also offers rich explanatory notes, containing much new detail on friends and family, the scarcely-known people of the Grasmere valley, the books that were read, and the connections with William Wordsworth's poetry.
language: English
title: The Grasmere Journals
titlecomplete: The Grasmere Journals
genres: Biography, Romanticism, Poetry, Nonfiction, Audiobook, Classics, Autobiography, 19th Century, Diary, History
ratings_count: 183
publisher: Oxford University Press