English Literature / Unit 12 ENL 1130 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Dorothy Wordsworth's Journals
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The idea
Dorothy Wordsworth recorded daily life and landscape in her Alfoxden and Grasmere journals, written with the expectation that William would read and use them. The Grasmere Journal, first published in eighteen ninety-seven, records the daffodils that became his poem.
In practice
Exact notes on weather, walks, people.
Where people slip
Her prose fed his poems.
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