Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday
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Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday
Narrated by:
Carol Ann Duffy
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Narrated by:
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Carol Ann Duffy
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By:
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Carol Ann Duffy
Summary
It is Christmas Eve, 1799, and Dorothy Wordsworth is awake in the dead of night. She stands outside in the winter cold, waiting patiently.
When the new day breaks, it will bring family and friends to Dorothy's door. For tomorrow is a double joy: tomorrow is her Christmas birthday.
Carol Ann Duffy's wonderful poem 'Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday' takes us to the frozen landscape of the Lake District, where a merry celebration is about to begin in the Wordsworths' cottage.
This festive poem evokes the snowy Lake District as Dorothy celebrates her birthday with her brother, William Wordsworth, and fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
©2016 Carol Ann Duffy (P)2016 Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd
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Critic Reviews
Duffy's spellbinding verse, spiced with witty, wintry illustrations, recaptures a magic most of us left behind in childhood (Maggie Fergusson)
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