false 2665338 3 The night before the marriage of her brother William Wordsworth to their childhood friend, Dorothy Wordsworth wore his wedding ring upon her finger; too distraught to attend the ceremony, she collapsed utterly when it was done. She would never recover, changing over time from what Thomas de Quincey described as &#8220;the very wildest person I have ever known&#8221; to a recluse. But this handmaiden to her brother and his close friend Coleridge was herself a writer of spectacular originality. Both men borrowed her imagery&#8212;hammered out on their epic walks across the English countryside&#8212;for the best of their work. Her words survive intact in the <I>Grasmere Journals</I>, which record the Wordsworths&#8217; life of severe asceticism mixed with an ecstatic communion with nature. In this inspired close reading of the journals, Frances Wilson reconstructs the rich and strange emotional life of a woman too often dismissed as a self-effacing saint. It is a feat of imaginative biography. 2690566 6 3 2008 The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth total:22|5:4|4:2|3:10|2:5|1:1| 22 69 68 10 2665338 0571230474 9780571230471 17 7 3.14 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2665338.The_Ballad_of_Dorothy_Wordsworth 3 0 false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 07:47:47 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 07:55:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4733121 0374108676 9780374108670 4 2 3.14 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4733121.The_Ballad_of_Dorothy_Wordsworth_A_Life 3 1 false Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 21:22:05 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 18:30:41 -0800 2009 boring. Repetitive, is a better word. Meandering.

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