Dorothy begins her journal on May 14, 1800, and continues it until January 16, 1803. Through concise landscape sketches infused with nuanced natural moods, it creates an overwhelmingly vivid image of a romantic way of life in the pristine lake and hill landscape of the Lake District. With the freshness of first-time sights and discoveries, scenes unfold before our eyes that have entered some of the most famous poems in English literature, such as the dance of the daffodils on the shores of Ullswater. We follow the rhythm of a self-sufficient poetic life: writing, composing, reading and reciting, tending to the house and garden, making fires, baking, catching pike, walking and hiking, visiting and entertaining friends – all in the natural tempo of inner and outer circumstances. This Grasmere Journal, translated into German for the first time, is based on a unique sensitivity.