Recollections Of A Tour Made In Scotland A D 1803

Dorothy Wordsworth, sister of the famous poet William Wordsworth, records the details of their journey to Scotland in 1803. She writes about the breathtaking landscapes and the customs of the Scottish people, offering an intimate view of a journey through a place that was relatively unknown to travelers of the time. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

'Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, A.D. 1803' is a travel memoir by Dorothy Wordsworth, recounting her journey through the Scottish Highlands with her brother William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Considered a masterpiece of Scottish travel literature, it offers a fascinating insight into the burgeoning Romanticism movement and the literary pilgrimage of the three authors to places significant to Romanticists such as Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott. Dorothy's vivid descriptions and judgments of the Scottish landscapes reflect both her personal aesthetics and the in-fashion aesthetics of the sublime, beautiful, and picturesque, making this book a classic of picturesque travel writing.

Excerpt from Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland: A D. 1803 During the following summers the Poet was busy with walking tours in Switzerland and North Italy, his resid ence in France, his absorption in the French Revolution, which kept him some years longer apart from his sister. During those years Miss Wordsworth lived much with her uncle Dr. Cookson, who was a canon of Windsor and a favourite with the Court, and there met with people of more learning and refinement, but not of greater worth, than those she had left in her northern home. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 by John Campbell Shairp Those who have long known the poetry of Wordsworth will be no strangers to the existence of this Journal of his sister, which is now for the first time published entire. They will have by heart those few wonderful sentences from it which here and there stand at the head of the Poet's 'Memorials of a Tour in Scotland in 1803.' Especially they will remember that 'Extract from the Journal of my Companion' which preludes the 'Address to Kilchurn Castle upon Loch Awe, ' and they may sometimes have asked themselves whether the prose of the sister is not as truly poetic and as memorable as her brother's verse. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.