DOVE COTTAGE & WORDSWORTH MUSEUM

If he is a Lake District personality that has entered history, it is William Wordsworth, a talented Victorian poet of the Victorian era. The village of Grasmere is always attached to it. It is here Dove Cottage, its family home, as well as a museum dedicated to its life and work. Eight years ago, he wrote the most cajoled texts of his career. Although he accepted the title of a crown poet, the prodigy never wrote a single line for Victoria, which earned him the nickname of «queen's canary who doesn't sing»… Today, we discover the objects of its daily everyday life. When he left the scene in 1809, it was Thomas de Quincy, just twenty years old, who settled there with the tidy sum of five thousand pounds. It will remain 28 years ago and made it the cradle of the Lake Poets, artists inspired by the immense beauty of the park, including Lord Byron and John Keats. The Wordsworth Museum reinstated these figures of English literature in an international historical and cultural context. The finger touches their remarkable genius through portraits, personal effects, paintings and manuscripts. A must-see from the region. The most passionate enthusiasts will also be able to go to Allan Bank, where Wordsworth moved to 1809 and Rydal Mount, where he lived from 1813 until his death in 1850.