Dorothy Wordsworth and Romanticism, rev. ed.

Like her more famous brother William, Dorothy Wordsworth was also an important writer. Yet her work has found a wide readership only in recent years. Appearing in 1987, the first edition of this book was the first full-length scholarly study of the author and was also the first to collect her poems, discovered at Dove cottage and in other libraries. This new edition adds critical readings based on the latest research into Wordsworth’s life and work and will further the argument for her place among the important writers of Romanticism.

Susan M. Levin is professor and director of Literature and Communications at Stevens Institute of Technology and the performer of a recital, “Songs by Women Composers: 1650 to the Present.”

Susan M. Levin
Format: softcover (6 x 9)
Pages: 239
Bibliographic Info: appendix, notes, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2009
pISBN: 978-0-7864-4164-8
Imprint: McFarland

Introduction to the Revised Edition      1

I. Home      13
II. Travel      66
III. Poems      98
IV. Dorothy Wordsworth and the Women of Romanticism      139

Appendix: The Collected Poems of Dorothy Wordsworth      157
Chapter Notes      215
Selected Bibliography      219
Index      229