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    influence. From this time six important authors surfaced: William Blake, William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Byron, and John Keats. Included in this list should be Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Wollstonecraft. The eighteenth century produce material that shattered the fundamental’s of society. On Christmas day in 1771, Dorothy Wordsworth was born. When her mother passed away seven years later, young Dorothy was shuffled from one relative to another. Even though her brothers received

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    William and Dorothy Wordsworths’ literary relationship has many different aspects to it but Dorothy was never as famous as her brother. By using feminist theory we can truly understand their relationship between the brother and sister and the linking in their writings. By looking at William’s poem ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ which is also known as ‘The daffodils’ and Dorothy’s Grasmere Journal a deep connection is also shown. Both William and his sister Dorothy were great writers, but William

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    history, we also witness the emergence of an inner consciousness of women, which denounced those accepted by society at the time. This is illustrated through observing the parallels and contrasts within the writings of Harriet Martineau and Dorothy Wordsworth. The inner reflections of these women writers not only rejects the “Angel in the House” ideal placed upon women, which is found in “The Paragon” by , but also contradicts those illustrated in “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover.” One can

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    piece together who they are? Whether the person would want you to read their journal or not it is a good way to get to know a person, especially when they can not tell you about them themselves. This is the case with William Wordsworth's sister, Dorothy Wordsworth who wrote in her journal and it is a testimony to not only her life but to the lives of the people around her. You can look at her everyday activities and know exactly what kind of person she is. Most of her journal is the trivial day to day

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    The Implications of Dorothy Wordsworth's Own Intellectual Evaluation Dorothy Wordsworth is extremely critical of her poetic abilities; she personally goes as far to say that she has, "no command of language." Her lack of self-confidence in her poetic talents makes her reluctant to publish poems like A Winter's Ramble in Grasmere Vale. Even when Dorothy overcomes her unwillingness to publish her work she still displays a certain level of self-consciousness for she transmits her poetic works

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    In the Grasmere Journals, Dorothy had written that “the two and a half years she lived with William in Grasmere were the happiest in my whole life” (Wordsworth and Woof, 2002). They were impossible to separate and William gave her life meaning. William was Dorothy’s Stimulus. William gained his ideas from Dorothy innovative nature in the Grasmere Journals. They both understood each other and that will now be discussed in depth. William Wordsworth’s poetry focused on themes and events which were recorded

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    William Wordsworth “Fill your paper with breathings of your heart.” William Wordsworth was a poet who not only inspired himself, but also inspired a number others. As some may know he was a son, brother, and a father. But most importantly, he was a famous poet. He never once let his rough and tragic lifetime get in the way of his creative writing. II: Historical Information from Author’s Time William Wordsworth was a poet who wrote in the Romantic Era. The Romantic Era lasted approximately fifty

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    William Wordsworth was a British poet, credited with ushering in the English Romantic Movement with the publication of Lyrical Ballad in collaboration with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Biographical Perspective of William Wordsworth can be presented multiply ways such as childhood experience, education, marriage, friendship, travels, career, and publication. Childhood experience for William was not particularly a happy one. His mom passed on when he was eight not having the best relationship with

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    Wordsworth is an high English poet and an establishing member of the Romantic Movement in the English literature. He lived and wrote at the period between 1770–1850 which is “the golden era of romanticism”. Like other Romantics, Wordsworth poetry and personality also were greatly influenced by his love for the nature, especially by the spectacles and views of the Lake Country area, where he spent most of his life in nature. Wordsworth is sincere thinker; he showed high tenderness and a love of

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    Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, 1, July 1798” is deeply rooted in its author’s personal history. It was written by the poet William Wordsworth after taking a walking tour along the Welsh Borders with his sister, Dorothy. In the summer of 1973, Wordsworth visited North Wales when he was still quite young and anxious, with the world on his shoulders. He was, at that time, still new in his profession, with very radical political views, as well

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