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  • Yet it was here, and later at the far grander Rydal Mount nearby, that Wordsworth wrote his greatest poetry, including "The Prelude," his long-meditated masterpiece.

    Modern Reliquaries Eric Ormsby 2012

  • A Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, Tillbrook was acquainted with Southey and Wordsworth, near whose home at Rydal he purchased a cottage.

    Index of People 2009

  • Umbrellas were blown inside out in Keswick, slates flew off a roof in Rydal and laden clothes-lines snapped in Grasmere.

    Country diary: Lake District 2011

  • But even conventional compositions can offer startling insights, such as the views of Haweswater in the album that Thomas Chubbard compiled for the wealthy Daniel Daulby when he came to live at Rydal Mount in 1796, showing the small figure-of-eight lake beneath the crags of High Street, before the later reservoir drowned the village and its farms.

    A passion for painting in the Lake District 2011

  • An example would be the funeral way that runs from Rydal to Ambleside in the Lake District where a coffin stone, on which the coffin was placed while the parishioners rested, still exists.

    December 2007 Maxine 2007

  • An example would be the funeral way that runs from Rydal to Ambleside in the Lake District where a coffin stone, on which the coffin was placed while the parishioners rested, still exists.

    Sunday Salon: The Coffin Trail Maxine 2007

  • An example would be the funeral way that runs from Rydal to Ambleside in the Lake District where a coffin stone, on which the coffin was placed while the parishioners rested, still exists.

    Sunday Salon: The Coffin Trail Maxine 2007

  • I grew up in a suburb of Philadelphia called Rydal.

    Joshua David Stein: World Cup: Give Me Something to Believe In 2008

  • News at Eleven: Here is Wordsworth on the grass walk at Rydal Mount: . . . he would set his heäd a bit forrad, and put his hands behint his back.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Rus Bowden 2006

  • Unusual within his corpus in that it is fancifully mythological and playfully erotic, this poem is nevertheless an evocation of a particular oak-tree in the familiar landscape of Rydal Park, Grasmere. 1

    Wordsworth's 'The Haunted Tree' and the Sexual Politics of Landscape 2001

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