Özdemir — Two Poems by Dorothy Wordsworth (2005)

Abstract: “Dorothy Wordsworth’s work has revealed itself of paradigmatic value to feminist criticism seeking a more complete and truthful picture of Romanticism, thought by scholars working in the area to be possible only through a recapturing of texts hitherto not allowed into the canon, these being often texts by acknowledged or unacknowledged woman writers. Rectifying the traditional attitude to Dorothy Wordsworth’s work, which treated it merely as a textual-biographical source illuminating William Wordsworth’s life and work, Margaret Homans and Susan Levin drew attention to the value of her writing both in its own right and as a part of Romantic literary activity/history. Özdemir examines the dialogic interaction of two poems by Dorothy Wordsworth mainly with ‘Tintern Abbey’ in addition to some other poems by Wordsworth.”