The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: Volume VIII. A Supplement of New LettersClarendon Press, 1967 - 328 páginas This volume prints more than 150 letters, most of them previously unpublished, which appeared too late for inclusion in the second edition of The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth (1967-88): they are indispensable for understanding the poet and the inner dynamics of the Wordsworth circle. Of outstanding interest are the unexpectedly tender and fervent letters which Wordsworth wrote to his wife Mary during brief periods of separation in 1810 and 1812: others provide fresh evidence about his contacts with Annette Vallon and his `French' daughter Caroline long after his withdrawal from revolutionary politics in France, and indeed up to the end of his life. Further letters illustrate the poet's literary and personal relations with Coleridge, Hazlitt, De Quincey, and Charles Lamb; his changing political and social views; his life in the Lake District and London; and, above all, his lifelong commitment to poetry and the principles that guided his imaginative life. These letters, varied in tone and subject-matter, will do much to dispel the ideal that he was invariably a reluctant or reserved correspondent. Dorothy Wordsworth, by contrast, fills out all the details of domestic life which her brother thought it unnecessary to dwell on, and her letters add their own characteristic touches to the picture of the Wordsworth circle - until the final breakdown of her health. |
Términos y frases comunes
Address affectionate Ambleside Beaumont bless Bocking Brinsop brother Catharine Charles Clarkson Cockermouth Coleorton Coleridge daughter dear Sir dearest dined Dora Dorothy Dorothy Wordsworth Esqre faithfully feel follows LY pt Grasmere Grosvenor Square happy hear Henry Hindwell Hitherto unpublished hope House Hutchinson James James Watt June Kendal Penny Post Keswick Lady letter follows LY Library London look Lord Lonsdale M. W.'s hand Mary Miss Monday Monkhouse Montagu morning never obliged Penny Post Penrith pleasure Poems Postmark Pray Radnor received Revd RMVB Rydal Mount Sara Sept Sir George Sister sorry Southey Stamp stay tell thanks thee thing Thomas Thomas Hutchinson thought tion W. W. to JOHN W. W. to UNKNOWN walk week Westmorland wife William Wordsworth wish WL MSS Wm Wordsworth W. W. write written wrote yesterday