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Dove Cottage. Coordinates: 54.4543°N 3.0164°W. Dove Cottage. Dove Cottage is a house on the edge of Grasmere in the Lake District of England. It is best known as the home of the poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy Wordsworth from December 1799 to May 1808, where they spent over eight years of "plain living, but high thinking".
The Wordsworth Trust's charitable purposes comprise preserving Dove Cottage and its environs, and advancing the public knowledge and enjoyment of the works of Wordsworth and the Romantic period. [2] The Wordsworth Trust is a member of the Cumbria Museum Consortium , along with Lakeland Arts and the Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Trust . [3]
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 ...
Wordsworth House is a Georgian townhouse situated in Cockermouth, Cumbria, England, and in the ownership of the National Trust. It was built in the mid-18th century. William Wordsworth was born in the house in 1770. The house is a Grade I listed building. It is open to the public as a writer's house museum from March to October each year.
Rydal Mount. Coordinates: 54.4487°N 2.9824°W. Rydal Mount, where the poet William Wordsworth lived. 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 .
Dove Cottage, Wordsworth's home near Grasmere in the Lake District. Wordsworth was born in the Lake District and spent much of his life living there. Wordsworth and his friends Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge became known as Lake Poets not only because they lived in this area but also because its landscapes and people inspired their work.
John Benson (1745–1808), who built and lived in the house from about 1780 was a wealthy landowner whose family had been in the Windermere district from the 15th Century. He owned many properties in the area including William Wordsworth’s house “Dove Cottage”. Wordsworth visited him at Dove’s Nest to pay the rent.
Wordsworth wrote "My Heart Leaps Up" on the night of March 26, 1802. He was staying at Dove Cottage in Grasmere with his sister, Dorothy. After he wrote it, he often thought about altering it, but decided to leave it as it was originally written. It was first published in Poems, in Two Volumes in 1807. [1]