The remains of Claife Station on the western shore of Windermere below Claife Heights can be visited today. The Lake District is intimately associated with English literature in the 18th and 19th centuries. Thomas Gray was the first to bring the region to attention, when he wrote a journal of his Grand Tour in , but it was William Wordsworth whose poems were most famous and influential.
Wordsworth's poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", inspired by the sight of daffodils on the shores of Ullswater, remains one of the most famous in the English language. Out of his long life of eighty years, sixty were spent amid its lakes and mountains, first as a schoolboy at Hawkshead, and afterwards living in Grasmere and Rydal Mount Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey became known as the Lake Poets.
William Wordsworth published his Guide to the Lakes in , and by it had reached its fifth edition, now called A Guide through the District of the Lakes in the North of England. This book was particularly influential in popularising the region. Wordsworth's favourite valley was Dunnerdale or the Duddon Valley nestling in the south-west of the Lake District.
The poet and his wife lie buried in the churchyard of Grasmere and very near to them are the remains of Hartley Coleridge son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge , who himself lived for many years in Keswick, Ambleside and Grasmere. Robert Southey, the Poet Laureate and friend of Wordsworth, was a resident of Keswick for forty years , and was buried in Crosthwaite churchyard. From to John Wilson lived at Windermere. De Quincey spent the greater part of the years to at Grasmere, in the first cottage which Wordsworth had inhabited.
In addition to these residents or natives of the Lake District, a variety of other poets and writers made visits to the Lake District or were bound by ties of friendship with those already mentioned above. SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. Bennet Mrs. Bennet Lydia Bennet Charlotte Lucas.
Why does Charlotte Lucas marry Mr. Why is Lizzy Mr. Why does Darcy dislike Wickham? Why does Lizzy form a negative first impression of Darcy? According to Mr. What role do letters play in the novel?
What is revealed about the characters after Elizabeth rejects Mr. How is the novel a critique of the social norms of its time?
How are Mr. The housekeeper, Mrs. Darcy tells her that he has just arrived to prepare his home for a group of guests that includes the Bingleys and his own sister, Georgiana. After Elizabeth learns that Wickham is to marry Mary King, she receives an invitation from the Gardiners for a summer tour to the Lakes. After she accepts, the Gardiners are forced to settle for a visit to Derbyshire — Mrs. Gardiner has spent many years in her youth — so that Mr. Pemberley is handsome and solid, and for the first time, Elizabeth imagines herself living there.
After the meal, she grills Elizabeth concerning her upbringing, deciding that the Bennet sisters have been badly reared.
The failure of Mrs. Shortly thereafter, Darcy and a cousin named Colonel Fitzwilliam visit their aunt at Rosings. When Mr. Collins pays his respects, the two men accompany him back to his parsonage and visit briefly with Elizabeth and Charlotte. Another invitation to Rosings follows, and Colonel Fitzwilliam pays special attention to Elizabeth during the dinner. After the meal, she plays the pianoforte and pokes fun at Darcy, informing Colonel Fitzwilliam of his bad behavior at the Meryton ball, at which he refused to dance with her.
Lady Catherine lectures Elizabeth on the proper manner of playing the instrument, forcing Elizabeth to remain at the keyboard until the end of the evening. The next day, Darcy visits the parsonage and tells Elizabeth that Bingley is unlikely to spend much of his time at Netherfield Park in the future.
The rest of their conversation is awkward, and when Darcy departs, Charlotte declares that he must be in love with Elizabeth, or he would never have called in such an odd manner. In the days that follow, both Darcy and his cousin visit frequently, however, and eventually Charlotte surmises that it is perhaps Colonel Fitzwilliam who is interested in Elizabeth. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. Elizabeth encounters Darcy and his cousin frequently in her walks through the countryside.
During one conversation, Colonel Fitzwilliam mentions that Darcy claims to have recently saved a friend from an imprudent marriage. Alone at the parsonage, Elizabeth is still mulling over what Fitzwilliam has told her when Darcy enters and abruptly declares his love for her. Darcy grimly departs. But in asking the question, Elizabeth seems to violate her own principles—she herself has already refused to marry Mr.
Collins for social advantage, and she does so again when Darcy proposes. It appears that sympathy for Wickham leads Elizabeth to betray her conscience. The only individual who dares to stand up to the haughty Lady Catherine is Elizabeth unsurprisingly, as elsewhere she sees through the pretensions of pompous and arrogant people like Mr.
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