Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Romantic-Era Travel Journal of the Scottish Highlands, Landscape, Memory, and Rural LifeBy Dorothy Wordsworth
Length9h 50m
About this audiobook
Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 is Dorothy Wordsworth's vivid prose record of the Highland journey she undertook with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Composed as a travel journal, it combines precise observation of landscape, weather, roads, cottages, and local manners with a Romantic sensitivity to solitude, sublimity, and ordinary life. Its lucid, unadorned style gives the work documentary authority while placing it within the wider Romantic revaluation of nature, memory, and rural culture. Dorothy Wordsworth, long known chiefly as William's sister and companion, was herself a writer of remarkable perceptiveness. Her journals and letters reveal a disciplined attention to detail and an emotional intelligence that nourished the Wordsworthian poetic project. This Scottish tour, made during a period of intense creative exchange among the Lake Poets, allowed her to encounter landscapes and communities that tested and extended her habits of seeing. This book is recommended to readers of Romantic literature, travel writing, women's life-writing, and cultural history. It offers not merely a companion text to canonical poetry, but an independent act of witness: quiet, exact, humane, and enduringly illuminating.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A succinct Introduction situates the work's timeless appeal and themes.
- The Synopsis outlines the central plot, highlighting key developments without spoiling critical twists.
- A detailed Historical Context immerses you in the era's events and influences that shaped the writing.
- A thorough Analysis dissects symbols, motifs, and character arcs to unearth underlying meanings.
- Reflection questions prompt you to engage personally with the work's messages, connecting them to modern life.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
Audiobook details
GenreTravel
Length9 hrs 50 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 12, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
19COMPOSED AT CORA LINN, in sight of wallace’s tower .
2Introduction
20APPENDIX C.
3Synopsis
21ADDRESS TO KILCHURN CASTLE.
4Historical Context
22APPENDIX D.
5PREFACE.
23THE BLIND HIGHLAND BOY. a tale told by the fireside , after returning to the vale of grasmere .
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6FIRST WEEK.
24APPENDIX E.
7SECOND WEEK.
25EFFUSION, in the pleasure-ground on the banks of the bran , near dunkeld .
8THIRD WEEK.
26APPENDIX F.
9FOURTH WEEK.
27THE BROWNIE’S CELL.
10MEMORANDUM BY THE AUTHOR.
28APPENDIX G.
11FIFTH WEEK.
29YARROW VISITED, September 1814.
12SIXTH WEEK.
30YARROW REVISITED.
13SONNET
31ON THE DEPARTURE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT FROM ABBOTSFORD FOR NAPLES.
14APPENDIX A.
32THE TROSSACHS.
15TO THE SONS OF BURNS, after visiting the grave of their father.
33DISTANCES FROM PLACE TO PLACE.
16AT THE GRAVE OF BURNS. 1803. seven years after his death .
34Analysis
17THOUGHTS suggested the day following , on the banks of nith , near the poet’s residence .
35Reflection
18APPENDIX B.
36Memorable Quotes
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