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JOURNALS DOROTHY WORDSWORTH VOL. 1 -- 1897 -- CONTENTS - PAGE 1s SCOSI, AXD A. n. I 803-C1ozfilzit.tJ . I VIII. JOURSAI, 01- A 3Iotsr, .11s Iilrrr, IY Iororrrl- AND VII, I, IAAI VOIIIISVORTIE, NOVEIIIEK 71, ro I 31-11, I So5 . . 151 VOL. I1 IiECOLLECTIONS OF A TOUR MADE IN SCOTLAND A.D. 1803 DAY IAG E 14. Left Loch Kctterinc . . 5 Garrisoi House-Highland Girls . . . - 6 Ferryhouse at Ilversneyde 7 L Poem to the Highland Girl I I lieturn to Tarbet . . 13 I. Coleridgc rcsolves to go home . . . . 14 Arrochar-L Long . 15 Iarted with Coleride . 17 Glen Croe-The CoL1, ler . 18 Glen Kinglas-Cairndow . 20 IG. Koxl to Inverary . . 21 Inverary . . . . 22 17. Vale of Arey . . . 27 - Kilchurn 18. och Loch Awe . . . . 29 Castle . . . 33 Lalrnally . . . . Awe . . . . 36 Taynuilt . . . . 38 21. Road to Inveroran . . Jnveroran-Iublic-house . Itoad to Tyndrum . . lyntlruni . . . . Loch Llochnrt . . . 22. Killin . . . . . Loch Tay . . . . Kenmore . . . . 23. Lord 1rendalbanes grountls Vale of lay- Al, erfelly - Frills of Jlones . . River Tummel -- Valc of lummel . . . . Incally-Blnir . . . 24. Iluke of iltlrcls garclens . Falls of liruar- hloutnin- roac o 1, octl l11nn1e1 . 1, och I ttmmel . . . CONTENTS DAY Cunawe-Loch Etive . Tinkers . . . PAGE . 39 43 19. Road by Loch Etive downwarcls . . . 15 Dunstafflage Castle . . 47 Loch Crerar . . . qg Strath of Appin- Portna- croish . . . . 51 Islands of Loch Linnhe . 52 3Iorven . . . - 52 Lord Iweedclale . . . 53 Strnth of 1uror . . . 55 Iallachulili . . 56 20. Road to Glen Coe up Loch Leven . . . 57 I3lacksmiths house, . . 58 Glen Coe . . . . 62 Whisky hovel . . . 65 Kings House . . 65 Iiivers TummeI and Garry . go Fa5cally . . . . 91 2 j. Pass of Killicmnkie -Sonnet. . . . g2 Ialloflurnmel. . . 93 1unkelrl . . . 94 Fallofthelran. . . 26. I olc of Athol, gardens . z Glcri of the Rran-Kulnl, ling 13rig . . . . 96 Narrow Glen-Poern . . 97, Cricff . . . . 99 27. Strath krnc. . . . 99 Lord hIelvillcs house-1, ach 1rnc . . . . IOO Strath 1Syer-1, och r.lilnaig IOI lruce the Iravellcr - lis, of I, cry--Callantlcr . . 102 4 CONTENTS DAY IIIGI AY IAGE E. rontl to thr Trossachs - 1 30. blolntnin - loatl to 1, och I, , I1 Vet1nnchlr . . 103 T.ocll Achl-ly --lrossnch.- lond 1111 T, och Kettcl-ine . 1o.t, Iocn Stelqin, q Vest - .nrtl . . . . 105 Il, tlllans hut . . . 1-36 o. 1011 to I, och I, onloltl . 1-36 Voil. . . . . 117 Poem 111 Solitary lcller . . . . I 18 StrntllICyer . . . 119 31. 1, och 1, uljnni . . . 121 Cnllander - Stirliiig - Fnl- kirk . . . . . 122 IVLII 111 J, ocl I, OIIIOII 1uri.h . . . . 123 l . . . I I I i n . . . . . 125 1-1101, 1oys l.nvc-l, cln . I 12 1 34. Iolit-TTnwthorilci . I 26 Ioltrnnx 11nt . . . I 1 lontl to Ieellcs . . . 17 IiECOLLECTIONS OF A TOUR SCOTLAN L. A.U. 1 S03 Coztilzzi TfIllD JVEEA7 Szozdry, A zlAfzst 2 8th.-MTe were dcsiroris to 11ai.c crossed the nountains above Glengyle to Glenfrlloch, at the head of Loch Lonlond, 1311t it rained so heavily that it was impossible, so the ferryman engaged to row us to the point where Coleridge and I had rested, vhilc Willianl was going on our doultful adventure. lhe hostess provided us with tea and sugar for our lreak- fast the water was boiled in an iron pan, a11d dealt out to us in a jug, a proof that she does not often drink tea, though she said she had alcvays tea ancl sugar in tlic house. She and the rest of the family breakfasted on curds and whey, as taken out of the pot inwhich she was making cheese she insisted upon my taking sonc also and hcr husband joined in with the old stoiy, tllat it was v1rra halesome. I thought it exceedingly gootl, and said to myself that they lived nicely with their cow she was meat, drink, and company...

"I should detest," wrote Dorothy Wordsworth, "the idea of setting myself up as an author." Protesting to Lady Beaumont she explained "I have not the powers which Coleridge thinks I have--I know it." Despite her self-deprecatory words, however, the reader of Dorothy Wordsworth's letters will discover a skill with language and a power of description that rivals even the poetry of her more famous brother.
In this selection, Alan G. Hill offers seventy complete letters that together provide a fascinating portrait of the writer and her surroundings. Spontaneous, intimate, and lively, they constitute a life of Dorothy Wordsworth in her own words, following her from youth to the onset of her last tragic illness. In between, we meet a remarkable group of people, for no other observer was so close to Wordsworth, Coleridge, and their circle, shared so completely their feelings and aims, and had such an eye for the landscape that inspired them. To have brought them so vividly before our eyes is surely one of Dorothy Wordsworth's greatest and most enduring achievements.

This volume prints more than 150 letters, most of them previously unpublished, which appeared too late for inclusion in the second edition of The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth (1967-88): they are indispensable for understanding the poet and the inner dynamics of the Wordsworth circle. Of outstanding interest are the unexpectedly tender and fervent letters which Wordsworth wrote to his wife Mary during brief periods of separation in 1810 and 1812: others provide fresh evidence about his contacts with Annette Vallon and his `French' daughter Caroline long after his withdrawal from revolutionary politics in France, and indeed up to the end of his life. Further letters illustrate the poet's literary and personal relations with Coleridge, Hazlitt, De Quincey, and Charles Lamb; his changing political and social views; his life in the Lake District and London; and, above all, his lifelong commitment to poetry and the principles that guided his imaginative life. These letters, varied in tone and subject-matter, will do much to dispel the ideal that he was invariably a reluctant or reserved correspondent. Dorothy Wordsworth, by contrast, fills out all the details of domestic life which her brother thought it unnecessary to dwell on, and her letters add their own characteristic touches to the picture of the Wordsworth circle - until the final breakdown of her health.

This new edition of perhaps the best-loved of all journals is based on a fresh examination of the original manuscripts. There is an enormously expanded commentary full of new information on every aspect of the people, places and books mentioned. The journal is intimately and vividly written and still a compelling read. Dorothy Wordsworth began it in 1800 to give her poet-brother pleasure, and for three years she noted the walks and weathers, the friends, the country neighbours, the beggars on the Grasmere roads. The Journal has many stories: of Wordsworth's marriage, of the concern the Wordsworths felt for Coleridge, and of the composition of poetry. It is an excellent source of information about Wordsworth, his circle and methods of writing. This new edition yields new readings of mis-read or undeciphered words, and restores Dorothy's hasty punctuation. It brings us closer to her as a writer than ever before: her first thoughts, her crossings-out, her after-thoughts, the hurried flow of her expression.

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. It follows Wordsworth through the troubled years of early Victorian England, provides indispensable material for understanding the later phases of his career, while also offering innumerable insights into the great poems of his prime. Many hitherto unpublished letters reveal his pervasive influence as the poet of Man, Nature, and Society, who was acclaimed in his later years as the first of the great Victorian sages. Others illustrate his life in the Lake District and London, his last literary projects (including the publication of Guilt and Sorrow and The Borderers), and his contacts with a new generation of writers, artists, churchmen, and men of affairs, from both Britain and America. Above all, his correspondence bears witness to his lifelong commitment to poetry. For Dorothy Wordsworth, however, these were years of physical decline and near-silence, and the poet's letters provide a moving record of his struggles to come to terms with the problems and cares that afflicted his immediate family circle.

Oxford Scholarly Classics is a new series that makes available again great academic works from the archives of Oxford University Press. Reissued in uniform series design, the reissues will enable libraries, scholars, and students to gain fresh access to some of the finest scholarship of the last century.

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Oxford Scholarly Classics is a new series that makes available again great academic works from the archives of Oxford University Press. Reissued in uniform series design, the reissues will enable libraries, scholars, and students to gain fresh access to some of the finest scholarship of the last century.

Oxford Scholarly Classics is a new series that makes available again great academic works from the archives of Oxford University Press. Reissued in uniform series design, the reissues will enable libraries, scholars, and students to gain fresh access to some of the finest scholarship of the last century.

Oxford Scholarly Classics is a new series that makes available again great academic works from the archives of Oxford University Press. Reissued in uniform series design, the reissues will enable libraries, scholars, and students to gain fresh access to some of the finest scholarship of the last century.