Handsomely-bound journal
The first entry of a journal which provided the material for some of the best travel writing of the 20th...
A poet’s sister or a sister poet?
In Dorothy Wordsworth's journals, you sense the extent to which she supported her brother's writing. Some things she records become...
The fungus and the toadstool
Thoreau has a habit of bringing interesting things home from his walks the better to observe them. Twigs, fungi, animals...
A record of experiences and growth
Recently I've become curious about how people view journals, what they use them for, and have been experimenting with writing...
The impatient shout of a thrush
A few years ago I noted Keats' delight in a thrush in his garden, and so found a kindred...
Flowering and marking
Dorothy Wordsworth refers to 'flowering and marking', meaning to embroider identification signs on linen. Â IÂ recently bought some wonderful, secondhand and...
The lovable vigour of weeds
Yes, I know what he means. I'm becoming increasingly tolerant of weeds and have started protecting and even nurturing some....
The richest of all soils
The use of 'rich soil' to represent fertile ground for writing isn't surprising but this reference to 'decayed literature' is. ...
Of the unspoken
A short and thoughtful statement. He doesn't elaborate and it is hard to know what drew him to this conclusion. ...
How hard one must work … and how!
In recent weeks, while typing up scores of quotations from Thoreau on the nature of writing, I started reading some...
The past as a concertina of time
I collect comments on and perceptions of time. This one is striking and I am as guilty of it as...
As free and lawless as a lamb’s bleat
First, the unusual simile, I never thought of a lamb's bleat as free or lawless. Then the idea that a...
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