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Please, help to bring peace to a trouble domestic scene. My dear wife once read a poem, purporting to be by Dorothy Wordsworth, which was a pastiche of Daffodils.
She cannot remeber who wrote it, what it was called, or where she read it, but now urgently needs it (goodness knows for what!!)
Each line of the poem is interspersed with a parenthetical domestic problem, and the poem serves to show that Dorothy was a far better poet than her brother, but that domestic duties prevented her from achieving her true potential.
Any ideas who, what, where?
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The best I can come up with quickly is The Grasmere Journals. You might get you a copy and give it to her for your next weekiversary or whatever handy occasion is up coming.
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for your next weekiversary spoken like a man smitten 
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Dear RC: I was unable to find an answer to your question, but I did find a very fine Atlantic Monthly article about Wordsworth, his sister, and Coleridge. http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/50dec/mallaby.htm
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spoken like a man's mitten
What, gloves can talk?
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What, glove scan talk?
they use sign language, Geoff.
Thanks for the links to Dot and Bill - some very interesting stuff there which I enjoyed reading.
But the thingy I'm looking for isn't actually written by Dorothy - it is a modern, female (I think) writer, who is making the point (again, I think!) that Dorothy would have been noted as a better poet than her brother, if it wasn't for the fact that she had to spend all of her time looking after him. (It is a feminist dig at the supposed helplessness of men generally)
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This might be worth a look, Rhuby. I couldn't access the actual text, OR register. But perhaps if you try from work, the Oxford University Press will acknowledge you as already registered.
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Volume 43: January - December 1996
Issue 1: March 1996
Abstract
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William and Dorothy Wordsworth and Anthony Harrison's Poetical Recreations
D. Wu University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
Pages: 32 - 33
Part of the OUP Notes and Queries WWW service
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I've tried OUP but can't find the bit you speak of. Do you have the URL, Jackie? it sounds interesting (although rather unlikely to be what I'm actually looking for - none the worse for that, though!) 
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I'm sorry, I should have put it--but I'd lost my mind and was thinking it was from askjeeves, which adds its own codes: any url I've ever copied from there takes up about half the screen, and often doesn't work. But this is a nice, simple google: http://www3.oup.co.uk/jnls/list/notesj/hdb/Volume_43/Issue_01/430032.sgm.abs.html
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