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SE60 Dove Cottage, William Wordworths home 1799-1808 |
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Dove Cottage was formerly an inn called 'The Dove and Olive Bough'. The cottage was home to William and Dorothy Wordsworth from 1799 to 1808. It was here he wrote Michael, Resolution and Independence , Ode: Intimations of Immortality and completed The Prelude (1805). The daily life of the pot and his family is recorded in his sister Dorothy's famous Journals. There were many literary visitors to Dove Cottage including Sir Walter Scott, Robert Southey, Coleridge and Thomas de Quincey. De Quincey described the cottage as "gleaming in the midst of trees, with a vast and seemingly never ending series of ascents rising above it".
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