Letters of Dorothy Wordsworth

by Dorothy Wordsworth

Book Overview

"I should detest," wrote Dorothy Wordsworth, "the idea of setting myself up as an author." Protesting to Lady Beaumont she explained "I have not the powers which Coleridge thinks I have--I know it." Despite her self-deprecatory words, however, the reader of Dorothy Wordsworth's letters will discover a skill with language and a power of description that rivals even the poetry of her more famous brother.
In this selection, Alan G. Hill offers seventy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192813188
• ISBN13: 9780192813183
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.7"