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  2. Guide to the Lakes - Wikipedia

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    For example, in 1775 the poet Thomas Gray published a journal of his visit to the area, describing the vale of Grasmere as "an unsuspected paradise." [ 5 ] The first Lakeland visitors' guide (as opposed to a traveller's journal) appeared in 1778, when Thomas West published a route for travellers that included advice on viewing the landscape.

  3. Lake Poets - Wikipedia

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    The "Lake Poet School" (or 'Bards of the Lake', or the 'Lake School') was initially a derogatory term ("the School of whining and hypochondriacal poets that haunt the Lakes", according to Francis Jeffrey as reported by Coleridge) [1] that was also a misnomer, as it was neither particularly born out of the Lake District, nor was it a cohesive school of poetry.

  4. La donna del lago - Wikipedia

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    La donna del lago (English: The Lady of the Lake) is an opera composed by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola (whose verses are described as "limpid" by one critic) [1] based on the French translation [2] of The Lady of the Lake, a narrative poem written in 1810 by Sir Walter Scott, whose work continued to popularize the image of the romantic Scottish Highlands.

  5. Robert Southey - Wikipedia

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    Robert Southey (/ ˈ s aʊ ð i, ˈ s ʌ ð i /; [a] 12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death. Like the other Lake Poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey began as a radical but became steadily more conservative as he gained respect for Britain and its institutions.

  6. The Cremation of Sam McGee - Wikipedia

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    "The Cremation of Sam McGee" is among the most famous of Robert W. Service's poems. It was published in 1907 in Songs of a Sourdough. (A "sourdough", in this sense, is a resident of the Yukon.) [1] It concerns the cremation of a prospector who freezes to death near Lake Laberge [2] (spelled "Lebarge" by Service), Yukon, Canada, as told by the man who cremates him.

  7. NYT ‘Connections’ Hints and Answers Today, Wednesday, December 11

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    today's connections game answers for wednesday, december 11, 2024: 1. utopia: paradise, seventh heaven, shangri-la, xanadu 2. things you shake: hairspray, magic 8 ...

  8. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud - Wikipedia

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    The inspiration for the poem came from a walk Wordsworth took with his sister Dorothy around Glencoyne Bay, Ullswater, in the Lake District. [8] [4] He would draw on this to compose "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" in 1804, inspired by Dorothy's journal entry describing the walk near a lake at Grasmere in England: [8]

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    The "Yellowstone" Season 5 finale just left viewers wanting more and they may just get their wish.On Dec. 15, the popular series wrapped up its fifth season with an explosive finale that killed ...