On life and writing: the fast and the slow of it
I was charmed by Dorothy Wordsworth's journals, wishing I could reverse time's arrow to accompany her on a walk to...
The proper form of fairy goblets
Acorns as fairy goblets, of course. But what is this 'moss cup' that Dorothy Wordsworth considers a better goblet for...
Pulling apples
Wordsworth uses this term several times - apparently an obsolete term for picking or gathering apples.
'We pulled...
New-dropped lamb
You can see the wobbly gait of these fragile newborns.
'Young lambs in a green pasture in the...
Of tea and stars
A charming juxtaposition of homeliness and magnificence - people drinking tea but noticing a sky sprinkled with stars.
Need some negus?
A hot drink of port, sugar, lemon, and spice, named after a Colonel Francis Negus (d. 1732), who invented it. ...
A real craving of nature
Branwell Bronte, the sister-eclipsed son in a family of six, caused them and his father great heartache through alcoholism and...
Gem-like brightness
A sudden burst of light after dullness, startling and enlivening the spirit.
'It was a sullen coldish Evening,...
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...
Sea-like sound
I like the description of a sound in the trees resembling the sea; land and water confounded.
'There...
Enchanting woods and beautiful trees
The detail, delicacy and richness of Dorothy Wordsworth's descriptions of nature are worthy of Thoreau (whose journal I am now...
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