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- Title
Topographical Measures: Wordsworth's and Crosthwaite's Lines on the Lake District.
- Authors
Carlson, Julia S.
- Abstract
The article considers the development of travel literature featuring the Lake District of England in the 18th and 19th centuries by focusing on the interrelationship between cartography, poetry, and travel writing. The author focuses on the maps in the book "A Series of Accurate Maps of the Principal Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland & Lancashire [...] First Surveyed and Planned Between 1783 and 1794," by Peter Crosthwaite, with an introduction by William Rollinson, which feature local literary landmarks and poetry excerpts. He also considers how the poetry of English poet William Wordsworth makes use of cartography and inscriptions. Travel guides including "Black's Picturesque Guide to the Lakes" are discussed.
- Subjects
LAKE District (England); ENGLAND; UNITED Kingdom; CARTOGRAPHY; WORDSWORTH, William, 1770-1850; CROSTHWAITE, Peter, 1735-1808; INSCRIPTIONS; ENGLAND description &; travel; TRAVEL guidebooks; 19TH century English poetry; LITERARY criticism; GUIDEBOOKS
- Publication
Romanticism, 2010, Vol 16, Issue 1, p72
- ISSN
1354-991X
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.3366/E1354991X10000887