By the time the quintessential Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850) died, he was England's Poet Laureate, and he was revered by people of Victorian England. This wood engraving of Wordsworth's grave illustrated an 1860 article titled "A Group of Graves" in Once a Week magazine (vol. 3, p. 273). This image is in the Public Domain.
In the article, author Mackenzie Wolcott describes the situation of the graveyard by the river Rotha and the simple graves of Wordsworth and members of his family. The article also describes the grave of Hartley Coleridge,…