The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels by Adam Nicolson

Author:Adam Nicolson [Nicolson, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2019-05-29T22:00:00+00:00

She was all fire, and, as this ardour looked out in the very gleam of her wild eyes … I may sum up in one brief abstract the amount of Miss Wordsworth’s character, as a companion, by saying that she was the very wildest (in the sense of the most natural) person I have ever known; and also the truest, most inevitable, and at the same time the quickest and readiest in her sympathy with either joy or sorrow, with laughter or with tears, with the realities of life or the larger realities of the poets!

If there was wildness buried within Wordsworth’s solemn demeanour, that shared wildness found something of an outlet to the world in his sister. But this was a manner that had no appeal for Sara Coleridge. Her daughter, also called Sara Coleridge, wrote much later that Dorothy had ‘greater enthusiasm than my mother possessed. She never admires anything she doesn’t understand,’ adding that her mother’s ‘very honesty stood in the way’.

Day after day Sara would suffer the trial of seeing Coleridge off into the hills with the two Wordsworths, or, as Dorothy’s journal occasionally shows, with Dorothy alone. One small incident between Sara and Dorothy, which De Quincey claimed was told him by Dorothy herself, hints at the nature of the relationship.

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