Title
Wordsworthian Landscapes
Subject
Our English Lakes, Mountains and Waterfalls, as seen by William Wordsworth
Description
As well as telling readers how to understand Wordsworth’s poetry, these editions also told tourists what to look for in the landscape. Wordsworth described Dungeon Ghyll Force as ‘a spot, which you may see / If ever you to Langdale go’. This illustration frames the waterfall as a picturesque tourist site.
This book claimed to give ‘the Tourist the additional pleasure of identifying with his own favourite spot any of the poet’s verses which refer especially to it’. From the beginning of tourism in the area, then, the Lake District was experienced as a Wordsworthian landscape.
This book claimed to give ‘the Tourist the additional pleasure of identifying with his own favourite spot any of the poet’s verses which refer especially to it’. From the beginning of tourism in the area, then, the Lake District was experienced as a Wordsworthian landscape.
Creator
Thomas Ogle (photographer)
Publisher
A. W. Bennett
Date
1864
Identifier
1996.11.2