Wild and romantic: Early guides to the English lake district
Author: first_name: John
last_name: Brown
first_name: Richard
last_name: Cumberland
first_name: John
last_name: Dalton
first_name: Thomas
last_name: Gray
first_name: Thomas
last_name: Pennant
first_name: Adam
last_name: Walker
first_name: Arthur
last_name: Young
Language: English
Year: 1802

A collection of some of the most significant literary work on the English Lake District prior to Thomas West’s A guide to the Lakes (1778). The poet Thomas Gray takes the reader from Brough south to Kendal on his return from a tour in Scotland. An agricultural reformer, Arthur Young, also returning from Scotland, begins his journey in the northern parts of Cumberland with dry descriptions of local farming, but on arriving in Keswick, his account turns to the picturesque scenery around Derwent Wa