Wild and romantic: Early guides to the English lake district
By John Brown, Richard Cumberland, John Dalton, Thomas Gray, Thomas Pennant, Adam Walker, Arthur Young · Running time 02:13:50 · Travel & Geography
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A collection of some of the most significant literary work on the English Lake District prior to Thomas West’s A guide to the Lakes (1778). The poet Thomas Gray takes the reader from Brough south to Kendal on his return from a tour in Scotland. An agricultural reformer, Arthur Young, also returning from Scotland, begins his journey in the northern parts of Cumberland with dry descriptions of local farming, but on arriving in Keswick, his account turns to the picturesque scenery around Derwent Water, Ullswater and Windermere. ‘Wild and romantic’ is Young’s phrase, yet the agriculturalist in him
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