Helvellyn

Helvellyn is the third highest peak in the Lake District, a mountainous area of England made famous because of William Wordworth's Romantic-era poetry. Wordsworth regularly climbed the mountain and is associated with the peak because of a portrait, Wordsworth on Helvellyn, by Benjamin Robert Haydon.

EBB, "On a Portrait of Wordsworth" Timeline

Haydon portrait of WordsworthThis timeline and its connected geospatial map are designed to support a COVE critical and teaching edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "On a Portrait of Wordsworth, by R. B. Haydon."  By using these new tools, we unpack the full cultural and historical complexity of this 14-line poem, an ekphrasis of Haydon's portrait.  You can link to the other two documents of this edition here:

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