Exhibition: Wordsworth, War and Waterloo
To mark the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo, the Wordsworth Trust is staging the first-ever exhibition to present William Wordsworth and other writers of the Romantic period as ‘war poets’.
With a particular focus on artistic and literary responses to the conflict, Wordsworth, War & Waterloo will demonstrate how war shaped Wordsworth’s ideas about his own role as a poet and how he felt towards the major military and naval figures of the period – Admiral Horatio Nelson, the Duke of Welli
Dove Cottage and Museum are open daily from 9:30 am until 5:30pm
Ticket prices (including 25 minute tour of the cottage and admission to the museum)
Adult: £7.75
Students: £6.75 (on production of
Dove Cottage, Grasmere, Cumbria LA22 9SH
Wed 6 May to Wed 1 Jul 2015