Dorothy Wordsworth’s journals, containing her keen observations of nature, significantly influenced the poetry of her brother William Wordsworth. Many of her descriptions found their way into his poems, including “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” and “A Night-Piece.” He also addresses her and her importance to him in such poems as “Tintern Abbey” and The Prelude.
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