Dennis, John. “Dorothy Wordsworth.” Leisure Hour, December 1889, pp. 121–25.
“The name of Dorothy Wordsworth is inseparably associated with that of her brother. What he owed to her self-denying affection, to her rare intellect, and to her profound love of Nature, the poet has acknowledged in words as familiar as they are beautiful. This ‘beloved sister,’ at the most critical period of Wordsworth’s early manhood, came to him with the ‘healing power’ which his noble verse has given so largely to others. . . . Her influence was abiding. She had herself a poet’s soul without his faculty of singing; and to her inspiring sympathy, expended without a thought of self, we are indebted for some of her brother’s finest poems” (p. 121).
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