William Wordsworth in Grasmere, Cumbria (continued)

The memorial to William Wordsworth at the entrance to the village.

The Wordsworth memorial in St Oswald's church:

'TO THE MEMORY OF

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH,

A TRUE PHILOSOPHER AND POET,

WHO, BY THE SAME SPECIAL GIFT AND CALLING OF

ALMIGHTY GOD,

WHETHER HE DISCOURSED ON MAN OR NATURE,

FAILED NOT TO LIFT UP THE HEART

TO HOLY THINGS,

TIRED NOT OF MAINTAINING THE CAUSE

OF THE POOR AND SIMPLE;

AND SO, IN PERILOUS TIMES WAS RAISED UP

TO BE A CHIEF MINISTER,

NOT ONLY OF NOBLEST POESY,

BUT OF HIGH AND SACRED TRUTH.

THIS MEMORIAL

IS PLACED HERE BY HIS FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS,

IN TESTIMONY OF

RESPECT, AFFECTION, AND GRATITUDE.

ANNO MDCCCLI.'

The Wordsworth daffodil garden, a tribute to the poet.

'For oft, when my couch I lie

In vacant of in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude:

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodil.

                             William Wordsworth'

'WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

1850
MARY WORDSWORTH'

'DOROTHY WORDSWORTH

1855'

'DORA QUILLIAN

9TH DAY OF JULY

1847'

'EDWARD QUILLIAN

Born at Oporto, August 12th 1791.

Died at Loughbrigg Holme, July 8th 1851.'

'JOHN WORDSWORTH

BROTHER OF WILLIAM AND DOROTHY

"A SILENT POET", A "CHERISHED VISITANT"

AND LOVER OF THIS VALLEY. BORN 4 DEC:

1772, HE DIED AT HIS POST AS COMMANDER

OF THE EARL OF ABERGAVENNEY WHICH

WAS WRECKED IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL

5 FEBRUARY 1805. HE WAS BURIED AT

WYKE REGIS.'

My other William Wordsworth links:

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William Wordsworth in Cockermouth, Cumbria
William Wordsworth in Hawkshead, Cumbria
William Wordsworth at Dove Cottage and Allan Bank in Grasmere, Cumbria
William Wordsworth at Rydal Mount, Ambleside, Cumbria

William Wordsworth at Dove Cottage and Allan Bank in Grasmere, Cumbria

Dove Cottage, where William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy moved at the end of 1799, to be joined by Mary after her marriage to William in 1802. Before, it had been and inn called the Dove and Olive Bough. Three children were born in four years, and the growing family moved to Allan Bank about a half mile away, on the other side of Grasmere. The cottage is now a memorial to Wordsworth's stay, and an extensive museum has been built a few yards from it.

Bedroom on the ground floor.

The kitchen.

With the adjoining larder.

The master bedroom.

Where the children slept, with newspapers on the wall as insulation. The Wordsworth Trust has faithfully used copies of newspapers of the day.

The living room-cum-study.

William and Dorothy lovingly tended the garden, seen here with an arbour at the back.

The view of the cottage and background from the garden.

In the museum, masks of Coleridge and Wordsworth.

Wordsworth by Francis Legatt Chantrey (1820).

The poet Felicia Hemans (1793–1835), who visited the Wordsworths at Rydal Mount in 1820. Hemans is most popularly remembered for 'Casabianca', specifically for the line 'The boy stood on the burning deck'. This bust was created in 1829 by Angus Fletcher (1799–1862).

Allan Bank once belonged to Canon Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley, a co-founder of the National Trust. The Wordsworths moved here in 1808, although William hated it and called it a 'temple of abomination.'

The chapel at the side of the house.

After a disastrous fire in 2011 caused by an electrical fault, the general consensus was to leave the interior as it is.

Photos of Beatrix Potter and Hardwicke Rawnsley, who was a friend of Potter's father Rupert, who took the photo in 1885. Beatrix first met Rawnsley when she was sixteen.

The view from the window.

My other William Wordsworth links:

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William Wordsworth in Cockermouth, Cumbria
William Wordsworth in Hawkshead, Cumbria
William Wordsworth at Rydal Mount, Ambleside, Cumbria
William Wordsworth in Grasmere, Cumbria (continued)