"bought by Edmund Lee, a businessman from London, for his son, an aspiring poet. Unfortunately, the younger Lee was not inspired to greatness by Wordsworth's old house. The Wordsworth Trust bought the cottage for £650 in 1890. The Trust was formed by the Reverend Stopford Brooke with the express purpose of preserving this place, which was so closely bound with Wordsworth's works. The cottage became commonly known as ""Dove Cottage"" only after it was acquired by the Trust. The Wordsworth Trust has kept the cottage open to the public since July 1891. The cottage remains largely unchanged from Wordsworth's day,"
"associations, personal, literary and moral, which gather around this cottage"". As well as Dorothy Wordsworth, these associations included Thomas De Quincey (who himself had the tenancy of Dove Cottage between 1809 and 1835), Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, Sir Walter Scott, Sir Humphry Davy and Sir George Beaumont. The Wordsworth Trust’s collection contains over 90% of Wordsworth’s verse manuscripts, and the largest collection of working papers, letters and other manuscript material relating to Wordsworth and his family anywhere in the world. It includes each of the 23 surviving manuscript versions of The Prelude, and all of the surviving notebooks in"
"Dove Cottage Trust) in December 1891. Its creation followed a successful appeal for funds to purchase Dove Cottage, ""for the eternal possession of those who love English poetry all over the world"". Dove Cottage itself opened to visitors on 27 July 1891. The appeal to purchase Dove Cottage was led by Stopford Brooke; the Wordsworth Trust's other founding trustees included Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley, Professor William Knight, The Rt Rev John Wordsworth and the Duke of Argyll. Their model was Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon, which had been purchased for the nation in 1847, but part of their motivation was also ""the"
"70,000 visitors a year. Dove Cottage was built in the early 17th century, beside the main road from Ambleside in the south to Keswick in the north. It was probably purpose-built as a public house, and it is first recorded as the ""Dove and Olive"", an inn included in a list of public houses in Westmoreland in 1617. It remained a public house, sometimes called the ""Dove and Olive Branch"", until it closed in 1793. The history of the cottage is referred to in William's 1806 poem, ""The Waggoner"", in which the protagonist passes by ""Where once the Dove and"
"The Dove, Hammersmith The Dove is a Grade II listed public house at 19 Upper Mall, Hammersmith, London W6 9TA. It dates from the early 18th century. A number of historical figures have been associated with the pub beside the River Thames. Among these are Graham Greene, Ernest Hemingway, Dylan Thomas and William Morris who lived next door. James Thompson is said to have written the words for the 1740 song ""Rule, Britannia!"" there. The pub appears in the 1930 A. P. Herbert novel ""The Water Gipsies"", loosely disguised as the fictitious ""The Pigeons"". The front bar of the pub"
"the Lakes (apart from Wordsworth). ""For the most part other Romantic poets either struggle with a Lake Poet identity or come to define themselves against what the Lakes seem to offer in poetic terms."" For Wordsworth, who settled at Dove Cottage, Grasmere, with his sister Dorothy after some years of wandering, the Lakes became bound up with his identity as a poet. Born and brought up on the fringes of the Lake District (at Cockermouth and Penrith), Wordsworth came back to the area in December 1799 and settled into a 'poetic retirement' within his 'native mountains.' Although Wordsworth did not"
"the Lakes (apart from Wordsworth). ""For the most part other Romantic poets either struggle with a Lake Poet identity or come to define themselves against what the Lakes seem to offer in poetic terms."" For Wordsworth, who settled at Dove Cottage, Grasmere, with his sister Dorothy after some years of wandering, the Lakes became bound up with his identity as a poet. Born and brought up on the fringes of the Lake District (at Cockermouth and Penrith), Wordsworth came back to the area in December 1799 and settled into a 'poetic retirement' within his 'native mountains.' Although Wordsworth did not"
"was also outside in the garden. William and Dorothy took particular pleasure in the garden and orchard behind the house, their ""little nook of mountain-ground"", which was deliberately arranged in an informal ""wild"" state. William became a key member of a group of Romantic poets in the Lake District, later known as the Lake Poets. Robert Southey lived in Greta Hall in nearby Keswick. Southey and Coleridge were married to sisters, Sarah and Edith Fricker, and Coleridge himself moved his family to Keswick in 1800. Both Coleridge and Southey became a frequent visitors to Dove Cottage, but Coleridge's marriage was"
"the inspiration for his poem ""I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"" in 1804. Dove Cottage did not provide enough space for the Wordsworths' growing family and many visitors, and they left Dove Cottage for Allan Bank in Grasmere in May 1808. William had condemned this house as an eyesore when it was first built, and they moved on again in 1810 to the Old Rectory in the centre of Grasmere. Finally, in 1813, they moved to the much larger and better appointed Rydal Mount, a few miles to the south just outside Ambleside. The Wordsworths continued to rent this property"
"John Clare Cottage John Clare Cottage is a cottage and literary museum in Helpston, Peterborough, United Kingdom. The English poet John Clare (1793-1864) was born here. The thatched Grade II* cottage at 12 Woodgate, Helpston, originally consisted of five smaller tenement buildings, that were joined into a single structure at a later date. The cottage was bought by the John Clare Trust in 2005. In May 2007, the Trust gained £1.27 million of funding from the Heritage Lottery Fundand commissioned Jefferson Sheard Architects to create a new landscape design and Visitor Centre, including a cafe, shop and exhibition space. The"
"to 1808, and establishing it “for the eternal possession of those who love English poetry all over the world"". Dove Cottage is now administered by the Wordsworth Trust. Brooke published in 1865 his ""Life and Letters of FW Robertson (of Brighton)"", and in 1876 wrote an admirable primer of ""English Literature"" (new and revised ed., 1900—but see below), followed in 1892 by ""The History of Early English Literature"" (2 vols, 1892) down to the accession of Alfred the Great, and ""English Literature from the Beginnings to the Norman Conquest"" (1898). He gave the inaugural lecture to the Irish Literary Society,"
"which had Gothic turrets and battlements, was demolished in 1925 to make way for retirement accommodation. The poet Robert Southey, who later in his life became one of the Lake poets and the Poet Laureate, lived in the village for a year in 1798–99, during which he wrote his ""Eclogues"" and much other poetry. His social circle at the time included the Wedgwoods of Cote House and chemist Humphry Davy, who was also living in Bristol then. Southey took part in Davy's experiments with laughing gas. William Pennefather (1816-1873), the Irish-born clergyman noted for his hymns and sermons, went to"
"Robert Woof (scholar) Dr. Robert Samuel Woof (20 April 1931 – 7 November 2005) was an English scholar, most famous for having been the first Director of the Wordsworth Trust and Museums Director of the Wordsworth Museum at Dove Cottage in Grasmere, Lake District, Cumbria. Dove Cottage is known as the centre for British Romanticism movement, having been the home of William Wordsworth from 1799–1808. The actress Emily Woof is his daughter. Born in Lancaster, England, Robert Samuel Woof was the youngest of three children; their father was bailiff of Home Farm, part of the Royal Albert Institution, Lancaster Early"
"17th century Scottish poet William Drummond of Hawthornden was buried within its grounds. Sir John Lauder, 1st Baronet of Fountainhall was born at Melville Mill, Lasswade, in 1595; and the present 18th-century Barony House was known as Lasswade Cottage when Sir Walter Scott rented it (1798-1804). He was visited here by the writer James Hogg (the 'Ettrick Shepherd') and the Wordsworths. Thomas de Quincey, author of ""Confessions of an English Opium Eater"", also lived in nearby Polton for some years, from 1843, in the cottage now known as de Quincey Cottage. The Scottish landscape artist William McTaggart moved to Lasswade"
"friend Wordsworth). Her guide to the Lakes (""Complete guide to the Lakes"", 1855) was a rather factual and clear-eyed description about what to find there and about the condition of the people. De Quincey moved into Dove Cottage in 1809 after having met his hero Wordsworth a couple of times before at Allan Bank, where the Wordsworths lived during 1808-1811, and then at Rydal Mount (""Recollections of the Lake Poets"", edited essays, 1834-1840). His worship of Wordsworth turned sour after De Quincey married a local girl and the Wordsworths refused to meet her. Instead, according to Nicholson, he turned more"
"residents of Wells Station to the heritage of the region and provide a cultural as well as a recreational retreat. °·Pow wow drum:written by david campbell David Campbell (poet) David Watt Ian Campbell (16 July 191529 July 1979) was an Australian poet who wrote over 15 volumes of prose and poetry. He was also a talented rugby union player who represented England in two tests. Campbell was born on 16 July 1915 at Ellerslie Station, near Adelong, New South Wales. He was the third child of Australian-born parents Alfred Campbell, a grazier and medical practitioner, and his wife Edith Madge,"
"Heytesbury. The Nobel Prize winning novelist William Golding, author of ""Lord of the Flies"", ""The Inheritors"", etc. is buried in the village churchyard, having lived the middle part of his life in a cottage on the banks of the River Chalke. He also named the Gaia hypothesis which was conceived by his fellow walking companion Dr James Lovelock who lived in the village from c. 1960-1980 at both 'Pixies Cottage' Misselfore and at 'Clovers Cottage' Mead End. International violinist Iona Brown lived in the village at 'Misselfore Cottage' from 1968 until her death in 2004. She took part in an"
"Edgar Allan Poe Cottage The Edgar Allan Poe Cottage (or Poe Cottage) is the former home of American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It is located on Kingsbridge Road and the Grand Concourse in the Fordham neighborhood of the Bronx, New York, a short distance from its original location, and is now in the northern part of Poe Park. The cottage is a part of the Historic House Trust, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, has been administered by the Bronx County Historical Society since 1975, and is believed to have been built in 1797. The Poe family—which included"
"District well from his childhood. He moved away to study at the University of Cambridge in 1787, and then travelled in Britain and Europe for 12 years. William first encountered Dove Cottage when on a walking tour of the Lake District with Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1799. William had been close to his sister Dorothy in their childhood, but they had spent many years apart. Although they had lived together in Somerset in 1797 and in Germany in 1798, William wanted to find a permanent home for them together. Dove Cottage was empty and available for rent, and they took"
"is listed in the Guinness book of Records as the smallest public bar in the United Kingdom. T. J. Cobden-Sanderson named his Doves Bindery and the Doves Press after the pub. The Dove, Hammersmith The Dove is a Grade II listed public house at 19 Upper Mall, Hammersmith, London W6 9TA. It dates from the early 18th century. A number of historical figures have been associated with the pub beside the River Thames. Among these are Graham Greene, Ernest Hemingway, Dylan Thomas and William Morris who lived next door. James Thompson is said to have written the words for the"
"and Thomas De Quincey. Martineau settled in a house she had built near Ambleside in 1845. As befitted her sociology-based background, her views concentrated on the need for the Lakes to be connected more with the outside world (for example, she was in favour of improved sanitation and of the new railways being set up through the district, unlike her friend Wordsworth). Her guide to the Lakes (""Complete guide to the Lakes"", 1855) was a rather factual and clear-eyed description about what to find there and about the condition of the people. De Quincey moved into Dove Cottage in 1809"
"Æ, Yeats and his artist brother Jack, George Moore, Seán O'Casey, George Bernard Shaw, Katharine Tynan and Violet Martin. Yeats wrote five poems about, or set in, the house and grounds: ""The Wild Swans at Coole"", ""I walked among the seven woods of Coole"", ""In the Seven Woods"", ""Coole Park, 1929"" and ""Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931"". Lady Gregory, whom Shaw once described as ""the greatest living Irishwoman"", died at home aged 80 from breast cancer, and is buried in the New Cemetery in Bohermore, County Galway. The entire contents of Coole Park were auctioned three months after her death,"
"David Campbell (poet) David Watt Ian Campbell (16 July 191529 July 1979) was an Australian poet who wrote over 15 volumes of prose and poetry. He was also a talented rugby union player who represented England in two tests. Campbell was born on 16 July 1915 at Ellerslie Station, near Adelong, New South Wales. He was the third child of Australian-born parents Alfred Campbell, a grazier and medical practitioner, and his wife Edith Madge, née Watt. In 1930, Campbell went to The King's School, Parramatta, and in 1935, with the support of the headmaster, he enrolled at Jesus College, Cambridge,"
"Rydal Mount Rydal Mount is a house in the small village of Rydal, near Ambleside in the English Lake District. It is best known as the home of the poet William Wordsworth from 1813 to his death in 1850. It is currently operated as a writer's home museum. Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth in Cumberland in 1770, and knew the Lake District well from his childhood. He moved away to study at the University of Cambridge in 1787, and then travelled in Britain and Europe for 12 years. He spent over 8 years at Dove Cottage in nearby Grasmere from"
"the road if the police saw him. As a teenager he walked from there to C.B.S. Charleville every day, a distance of 11 km (7 miles) each morning and evening (the family could not afford a bicycle). De Valera regularly visited the cottage in later life. It is today a museum containing de Valera memorabilia, including the trunk he brought back from New York. The house is a detached three-bay single-storey house. Poet Thomas McCarthy wrote, in 1984, ""Returning to De Valera's Cottage"", about the strange shadow the cottage cast over the village. De Valera's Cottage De Valera's Cottage is"
"He submitted his own poems, as well as poems by James Joyce, Robert Frost, D. H. Lawrence, Yeats, H.D. and Aldington, and collected material for a 64-page anthology, ""Des Imagistes"" (1914). The Imagist movement began to attract attention from critics. In November 1913 Yeats, whose eyesight was failing, rented Stone Cottage in Coleman's Hatch, Sussex, and invited Pound to accompany him as his secretary. They stayed there for 10 weeks, reading and writing, walking in the woods and fencing. It was the first of three winters they spent together at Stone Cottage, including two with Dorothy after she and Pound"
"national football team, and Canada men's national football team, and was formerly the home ground for rugby league team . The original 'Cottage' was built in 1780, by William Craven, the sixth Baron Craven and was located on the centre circle of the pitch. At the time, the surrounding areas were woods which made up part of Anne Boleyn's hunting grounds. The Cottage was lived in by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (who wrote ""The Last Days of Pompeii"") and other somewhat notable (and moneyed) persons until it was destroyed by fire in May 1888. Many rumours persist among Fulham fans of past"
"published in the 1920s and 1930s include Brian Coffey (1905–1995), Denis Devlin (1908–1959), Thomas MacGreevy (1893–1967), Blanaid Salkeld (1880–1959), and Mary Devenport O'Neill (1879–1967). Coffey's two late long poems ""Advent"" (1975) and ""Death of Hektor"" (1982) are perhaps his most important works; the latter deals with the theme of nuclear apocalypse through motifs from Greek mythology. Of this group, Devlin is the least experimental; his friendship with Allen Tate while working at the Irish embassy in Washington is one index of the traditional tendencies of his verse. Long poems such as 'Lough Derg' (1946) and 'The Heavenly Foreigner' (written in"
"cottage. Liam says the poem was put to music years later by a local musician. Liam did not know the date the poem was written but he remembers it from the 1930s. A variation of Liam Buckley's account from Jack McAuliffe's niece also exists which suggests it was written in the adjoining cottage occupied by Bob Boyle. The Cliffs of Fluteneen I have traveled afar from my own native home. Away o’er the billows, away o’er the foam I have seen many sights but no equal I’ve seen To the old rocky slopes by the cliffs of Fluteneeen I have"
"national campaign and significant private funding. In 1909 they handed it over to the National Trust who have run it as a writer's home museum since then. In the later 20th and early 21st centuries further renovation and expansion was undertaken, since when it has won awards as a tourist attraction. The cottage was constructed in the 17th century as two attached buildings. One contained a parlour, kitchen and service room on the ground floor and three corresponding bed chambers above, and an adjoining byre or barn. The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge rented the cottage for three years from 1797."
"Sidney Lanier Cottage The Sidney Lanier Cottage is a historic cottage on High Street in Macon, Georgia that was the birthplace of poet Sidney Lanier. It was built in 1840 and was renovated to its present Gothic Revival style in 1880. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Sidney Lanier was born in the High Street home of his grandfather in 1842. Lanier is best known for his regional poems, including ""The Marshes of Glynn"", ""The Song of the Chattahoochee"", and ""Sunrise"". Lanier's parents, Sterling Robert Sampson Lanier and Mary Jane Anderson Lanier, were living"
"third. A biographer of Emerson described the group as ""the occasional meetings of a changing body of liberal thinkers, agreeing in nothing but their liberality"". Frederic Henry Hedge wrote of the group's nature: ""There was no club in the strict sense... only occasional meetings of like-minded men and women"". Alcott preferred the term ""Symposium"" for their group. In late April 1840, Alcott moved to the town of Concord urged by Emerson. He rented a home for $50 a year within walking distance of Emerson's house; he named it Dove Cottage, though they also called it Concordia Cottage. A supporter of"
"cause of the siblings settling at Dove Cottage in Grasmere in the Lake District, this time with another poet, Robert Southey nearby. Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey came to be known as the ""Lake Poets"". Throughout this period many of Wordsworth's poems revolved around themes of death, endurance, separation and grief. In 1802, Lowther's heir, William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale, paid the 4,000 pounds owed to Wordsworth's father through Lowther's failure to pay his aide. It was this repayment that afforded Wordsworth the financial means to marry. On 4 October, following his visit with Dorothy to France to arrange matters"