Book description
The beautiful and peaceful heart of the Lake District, Grasmere was
an inspiration to both Dorothy and William Wordsworth. Hills, lakes
and orchards, letter writing, walks and welcome visitors (including
fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge) provoked in Dorothy's journal
great, lyrical prose, which in turn influenced her brother's
unsurpassed poetry. The two - journal entries and poems - are here set
side by side, a glorious celebration of life and nature around Dove
Cottage, over the first year they called it home.
Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English
countryside - but it has profoundly shaped us too. It has provoked a
huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians and
people who live and work on the land - as well as those who are
travelling through it.English Journeys celebrates this long
tradition with a series of twenty books on all aspects of the
countryside, from stargazey pie and country churches, to man's
relationship with nature and songs celebrating the patterns of the
countryside (as well as ghosts and love-struck soldiers).
William and Dorothy Wordsworth
(1770-1850 and 1771-1855) were inseparable companions throughout their
adult years. After William married, Dorothy continued to live with her
brother and his wife. William's major works include the
Lyrical
Ballads
and
The Prelude.
