Another line of poetry-in-prose in Dorothy’s journal. I was struck by the sea described as a basin full to the margin, and turnips being laid alongside the fields and the sea, of equal importance.
‘The sea, like a basin full to the margin; the fresh-ploughed field dark; the turnips of a lively rough green.’Â 24 February 1798.
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Source: Dorothy Wordsworth, The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals, ed. and introduction by Pamela Woof (Oxford: Oxford World’s Classics, 2008 (2002)), p. 147
