Wordsworth loved and drew inspiration from this landscape of the Lake District, his home. Today we hope that the importance of place has been retained: that interacting with Wordsworth’s work, in the place it was created, allows the freshness of the original inspiration to live.
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** LATEST NEWS ** FREE Wordsworth Trust Events in Cumbria Autumn / Winter 2007/08 view full programme here.
The Wordsworth Trust's special exhibitions
headhearthole : Kate Davis Until 30th Dec 2007
| Award winning artist Kate Davis has taken inspiration from the Lake District landscape to create a striking exhibition in Grasmere that takes her art outside the confines of the gallery. Kate has placed some of her work on the windows of a nearby cottage and has created an installation inside the Wordsworth Trust's boathouse, which also served as her studio. Drawing on her previous work relating the human anatomy to landscape, Davis has taken her three most significant sites in Grasmere and equated them to the three axes of the body: the head, the heart and the hole. | |||
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Dante Rediscovered: from Blake to Rodin until 20th Nov 2007 |
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| This exhibition traces the discovery of Dante's Commedia (the Divine Comedy) during the Romantic period. Highlights include sculpture by Auguste Rodin, illustrations by William Blake, Henry Fuseli, Francisco Goya, as well as pre-Raphaelite artists Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones. The exhibitoin will also examine Dante's influence on writers from the Romantics onwards, and include annotated copies of the Commedia belonging to Wordsworth, Coleridge and Keats. Accompanying the exhibition are two beautifully produced books. The main catalogue is also available as a limited edition of 200, numbered casebound volume. Available from our on-line shop. | |||
Publication - new edition
William Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age
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This volume presents two works by perhaps Britain’s finest essayist, William Hazlitt. His celebrated essay, ‘My First Acquaintance with Poets’, is a brilliant image of writers at work in their youth. The sense of promise in the descriptions of Wordsworth and Coleridge is unsurpassed. Later, in The Spirit of the Age, Hazlitt comes as judge, testing twenty-four of his contemporaries against the necessity of the time, the necessity to believe in progress, to advance the state of our fellow man. Lurking behind this grand judgemental hauteur is a subtle-eyed psychology, and wonderful flashes of human understanding remind one of Hazlitt’s inimitable pursuit of the ‘gusto’ of living. Robert Woof’s introductory notes place Hazlitt’s subjects in a wider context, indicating the general scope of their lives, and showing how they touch upon each other’s activities. Illustrating Hazlitt’s prose portraits are a series of actual portraits (chiefly from the National Portrait Gallery) by a rich variety of painters who offer their own images of those men who, for Hazlitt, best represented the Spirit of the Age. Available from our on-line shop price £14.95, paperback, 352pp ISBN 1 870787 90 0. | ||
