Picture courtesy of the Wordsworth Trust and Dove Cottage, located in Grasemere, was home to William and Dorothy Wordsworth between the years of 17. The Norton Anthology: English Literature 8th Edition Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Wordsworth The second Dorothy Wordsworth (18041847), aka Dora, was, of course, named after her aunt and in many ways followed in the first Dorothy’s footsteps.
Not only did Wordsworth and Coleridge have similar poetic interests, but the two developed a deep and lasting friendship that was able to withstand the trials of their drug addiction, bouts of depression and mutual artistic criticism. Dorothy’s account of this feat was a bit troublingly borrowed, without attribution, by her brother in his A Guide through the District of the Lakes. Their mutual friend Robert Southey, who was also a poet, worked with them and the trio became known at the “Lake Poets.” In this page, we will more deeply explore the relationship between these two Romantic poets and the people, like Southey, who shaped their lives and their poetry while they lived in Grasmere. Many of her brother's poems were suggested by scenes and. Wordsworth was the only sister of Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and his lifelong and sympathetic companion, and endowed in no small degree with the same love of and insight into nature as is evidenced by her Journals.
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Dorothy did not set out to be an author, and her writings comprise only of a series of letters, diary entries and short stories. She was the sister of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and the two were close for all of their lives. She was separated from her brothers at the age of six, upon the death of her mother. Over the course of their collaboration, the second edition followed suit in 1800. Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth (25 December 1771 - 25 January 1855) was an English poet, story writer, and diarist. Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth (25 December 1771 25 January 1855) was an English author, poet and diarist. Dorothy Wordsworth was the only sister of William Wordsworth, the English Romantic poet. She is probably best known, however, as the sister of famous English Romantic poet, William Wordsworth. In 1798, the two poets joined together to publish the first edition of Lyrical Ballads, a collection of poems that is considered by many to be the definitive starting point of the Romantic Era. Dorothy Wordsworth (Decem January 25 1855) was an English poet and diarist.
During this time, Wordsworth and Coleridge greatly influenced, criticized and inspired eachother’s poetry. It was a threatening misty morningbut mild. Upon meeting Wordsworth, Coleridge decided to move to Grasmere to be in close proximity to his fellow poet. This excerpt taken from Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth: The Alfoxden Journal 1798, The Grasmere Journals 1800-1803, ed. She was the sister of the Romantic poet William. In a chance meeting that would change the course of poetic history, Samuel Taylor Coleridge made the acquaintance of William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, in Somerset in 1795. Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth (25 December 1771 25 January 1855) was an English author, poet, and diarist. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth
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