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Creativity on the manuscript page: William Wordsworth’s Diaries Notebook (DC MS 19)

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posted on 2016-08-01, 13:58 authored by Wim Van-MierloWim Van-Mierlo
Unprepossessing and tattered from use, the small, black-covered notebook which contains the earliest known version of William Wordsworth (1770-1850) great autobiographical poem The Prelude is a manuscript that speaks to the imagination. One of the prized treasures of The Wordsworth Museum at Dove Cottage, Grasmere (DC MS 19), the notebook was a cheap, ordinary, ephemeral affair; and despite being designated “Diaries”, written on a paper label on the front cover, its original intended use was to be merely practical. So why was it so significant that it was worth preserving?

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  • The Arts, English and Drama

Department

  • English and Drama

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Manuscript of the Month

Citation

VAN MIERLO, W., 2014. Creativity on the manuscript page: William Wordsworth’s Diaries Notebook (DC MS 19). Manuscript of the Month, 02/2014

Publisher

Centre for the Studies of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC), Universität Hamburg

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2014

Notes

This paper is available online at: https://www.manuscript-cultures.uni-hamburg.de/mom/2014_02_mom_e.html

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  • en

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