Throwback Thursday!
In this weeks post I'm going back to December 2011 again!
We're off to Cumbria! To visit Grasmere, the home of William Wordsworth!
I have visited this small village in the Lake District many times as a child and as an adult!
Grasmere is situated on the River Rothay which flows into Grasmere Lake. The Village is over looked by Helms Crag.
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| Snowy View of Helms Crag! |
William Wordsworth resided here for 14 years and lived in Dove Cottage!
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| Dove Cottage! His family and himself are buried in Churchyard of St Oswald's Church.    Head stone of William Wordsworth and His Wife Mary.  who was also a Writer. While Wordsworth lived here in Grasmere, his friend and poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge also visited and stayed with the Wordsworth family. It is also said that while walking over the fells in the area, he muttered stanzas of his most famous poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Wordsworth described the village as "the loveliest spot that man hath ever found." Wordsworth later sold Dove Cottage to friend and poet Thomas de Quincey as the Wordsworth family moved into a bigger house in the village. However Dove Cottage is his most famous residence, which is now open to the public to see and is run by the Wordsworth Trust. While living here he wrote this selection of poems; "Ode: Intimations of Immortality", "Ode to Duty", "My Heart Leaps Up" and "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. I was lucky enough to visit this lovely village in December 2011, I went here on a trip with the University, as we were studying Romanticism and Wordsworth!  (We are slightly nuts haha!) That's all for this time, hope you liked it and would visit Grasmere yourself! Claire x |
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