Full Moon Over Allan Bank (AW4)

Romantic poet William Wordsworth was a keen horticulturalist and spent a lot of time in his gardens. Here he is in the grounds of Allan Bank, the house in Grasmere, in the Lake District, to which the Wordsworth household reluctantly removed in 1808 after conditions at Dove Cottage became too cramped. Here he lived for some two years with his wife, Mary, their three children, his sister Dorothy and sister-in-law Sara Hutchinson who was the object of fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s deep and life-long crush. Coleridge and Thomas de Quincey, another poet, were frequent long-stay visitors to Allan Bank.