Dorothy Wordsworth

Dorothy Wordsworth was a talented writer who did not give herself enough credit for her work. She wouldn’t have had her writings published if it weren’t for her brother William and her friends. She wrote to “please” her brother (290). While reading her biography it seemed as though Dorothy and William were unusually close siblings. She had 3 other brothers, but she was not as close to them as she was with William. William also seemed to be her inspiration to her writings.
In Dorothy’s writings, I can tell she really loves nature, and it showed in her works. Her admiration of her brother was often revealed in her poetry especially in her poem Thoughts on My Sick Bed. She made several references of his poems throughout her own work. Her love of nature also appeared in this poem, because in every stanza, even while in sick and in bed, she describes in great description of flowers and animals. It must have bothered her greatly to be confined inside and not being able to enjoy the outside world. When she says
“yet never in those careless days,
When springtime in rock, field, or bower,
Was but a fountain of earthly hope
A promise of fruits and the splendid flower."
I can actually tell she had a respect for nature, and how peaceful it made her. In “The Grasmere Journals” she describes the wilderness and wildlife that she sees in great detail that I can vividly picture them in my own mind as if I were there. “A beautiful, yellow, palish yellow flower, that looked thick round, and double, and smelt very sweet” (294). That quote stuck out to be. A person who was not fond of nature would not go into such detail in describing a simple thing like a flower in this way. She had great works, and it’s a shame that she did not make more effort into publishing more of her work.