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Dorothy Wordsworth Poetry

He Said He Had Been a Soldier

by Dorothy Wordsworth

He said he had been a soldier,
That his wife and children
Had died in Jamaica.
He had a begger’s wallet over his shoulders,
And a coat of shreds and patches.
And though his body was bent,
He was tall
And had the look of one
Used to have been upright.

I talked a while, and then
I gave him a piece of cold bacon
And a penny.

Address to A Child During A Boisterous Winter Evening (1836)

by Dorothy Wordsworth

What way does the wind come? What way does he go?
He rides over the water, and over the snow,
Through wood, and through vale; and o’er rocky height,
Which the goat cannot climb, takes his sounding flight;
He tosses about in every bare tree,
As, if you look up, you plainly may see;
But how he will come, and whither he goes,
There’s never a scholar in England knows.

He will suddenly stop in a cunning nook,
And ring a sharp ’larum; but, if you should look,
There’s nothing to see but a cushion of snow,
Round as a pillow, and whiter than milk,
And softer than if it were cover

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Introduction to Dorothy Wordsworth's Lake District

On Christmas Day of 2021, admirers of Dorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855) around the world celebrated the sestercentennial of a writer who, after long years in her elder brother’s shadow, has at last gained an independent reputation. Dorothy (fig. 1) is now widely known as one of nineteenth-century England’s most perspicacious nature writers and keen-eyed chroniclers of the everyday. There has never been a better time to study her life and work, as besides an ever-growing body of biographical and critical studies, recent decades have seen the arrival of several important print collections of her writings, including the first-ever classroom anthology of her “greatest hits” as a diarist, travel writer, and poet.

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See Susan Levin’s classroom anthology Dorothy Wordsworth: A Longman Cultural Edition (2009). Other important additions to the modern DW library include Pamela Woof’s Oxford World’s Classics edition of The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals (2002) and Carol Kyros Walker’s illustrated edition of DW’s Recolle

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Dorothy Wordsworth

For the poet, daughter of William Wordsworth, see Dora Wordsworth.

English author, poet and diarist

Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth (25 December 1771 – 25 January 1855) was an English author, poet, and diarist. She was the sister of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and the two were close all their adult lives. Dorothy Wordsworth had no ambitions to be a public author, yet she left behind numerous letters, diary entries, topographical descriptions, poems, and other writings.

Early life and education

Dorothy Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland on December 25, 1771. She was the sister of English Romantic poet William Wordsworth and the third of five children born to Ann Cookson and John Wordsworth. Following the death of her mother in 1778, Dorothy was sent alone to live with her second cousin, Elizabeth Threlkeld, in Halifax, West Yorkshire until 1787. During this period, Dorothy attended boarding school at Hipperholme before transferring to a day-school in Halifax.^[1]

In 1787, Dorothy moved to her grandparents' house in Pen