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3 unusual facts about Guide to the Lakes


Guide to the Lakes

By 1810, Wordsworth was living near Grasmere with his sister and collaborator Dorothy Wordsworth, his sister-in-law, his wife, and their four small children.

He includes in this section a long passage transcribed nearly intact from the 1805 journal of his sister Dorothy Wordsworth about a trip they took from their home in Grasmere to Ullswater (see Sélincourt footnote pp 181 – 182).

This section of the guidebook is an ode in blank verse by Wordsworth evoking the hard ascent and joyful descent of Kirkstone Pass, a high mountain pass between Ambleside and Patterdale.



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