Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Guide to the Lakes" in English language version.
Wordsworth had prepared the Guide to the Lakes in the hope that his work might serve in some way as a corrective to previous studies of local scenery.
Travel literature of the Lake District developed as the eighteenth century progressed. Early published works included descriptions of the area using language of the sublime to describe their author's experiences, comparing landscape views to the works of European artists.
Wordsworth had prepared the Guide to the Lakes in the hope that his work might serve in some way as a corrective to previous studies of local scenery.
Wordsworth's Guide to the Lakes has not been considered in the context of the development of geography in Britain during the early nineteenth century. This paper examines its distinctive approach to the description and analysis of landscape and locates it within the literature of geography, arguing that it was one of the first systematic geographical studies of a region within the British Isles.
There are modern editions in print, but they're of the expanded fifth edition of 1835. I needed the original 1810 text, written as an anonymous introduction to a volume of Lakeland engravings by a provincial cleric, the Rev. Joseph Wilkinson.
But a decade later, in financial straits, Wordsworth wrote the first version of a guidebook addressed to these same "moping Son[s] of Idleness" (as he calls them in the next line of The Brothers), now dignified as "Persons of taste, and feeling for Landscape."
