Romanticism : Life Literature and Landscape

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Provides access to the working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and his fellow writers of the Romantic period..

William Wordsworth’s original verse manuscripts, working notebooks, correspondence, and selected annotated editions are major features of the collection. The collection also includes writings of Dorothy Wordsworth, such as her Grasmere Journals, Alfoxden diary, and travel journals. Other highlights include verse manuscripts by and correspondence from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey and Robert Southey.

The collection also includes over 2,500 art pieces from the Wordsworth Trust’s fine art collection. The primary subject of the art collection is the Lake District in Great Britain. Pieces are by significant romantic artists, including John Constable, J.M.W. Turner, Thomas Gainsborough, Benjamin Robert Haydon, and John Ruskin.

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Date Coverage

  • 1768-1903

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