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Revolution and Romanticism
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A facsimile reprint in the Revolution & Romanticism series chosen and introduced by Jonathan Wordsworth ISBN 1 85477 052 7 200 x 127 mm 88 pages |
JAMES PLUMPTRE The Lakers 1798 In the late 1790s the Reverend James Plumptre made three walking tours in the Lake District, taking with him as reading matter Uvedale Price’s On the Picturesque. The result was The Lakers, a satire on the vogue for tourism and the picturesque that may be compared to the later Tour of Dr Syntax by Combe and Rowlandson. Plumptre’s play is engagingly readable, appearing in the same year as Lyrical Ballads and showing (as Jane Austen does in Sense and Sensibility) the humorous side of a tradition that had opened the eyes of Wordsworth and his generation to the appreciation of landscape. £25 $48 Anna: Such curious truths are contained in it - why, |
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