The Grasmere Journals

This is a new edition of one of the best-loved of all journals. Dorothy Wordsworth's record of the walks and weather in Grasmere, and friends and neighbours was written between 1800 and 1803. There are many stories: of Wordsworth's marriage, of their concern for Coleridge, of the composition of poetry. Here the editor has returned to the original manuscripts and has produced new readings of mis-read or undeciphered words. We are brought closer to Dorothy Wordsworth as a writer as her first thoughts, her crossings-out, and her afterthougts are revealed, in this fresh reading of a marvellous personal record.