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Wordsworth and the Ordnance Survey in Ireland: "dreaming o'er the map of things".(William Wordsworth)

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From: Wordsworth Circle
Date: 20060322
Author:Hewitt, Rachel

Wordsworth had been planning a visit to Ireland ever since his first meeting with the Irish Astronomer Royal, William Rowan Hamilton, in September, 1827. Introduced by Caesar Otway, author of Sketches in Ireland, whose book Wordsworth received that same year (Shaver 191), they were on an excursion to Helvellyn, and, according to Hamilton, reluctant to part: "[Wordsworth] walked back with our party as far as their lodge; and then ... I offered to walk back with him, while my party proceeded to the hotel. This offer he accepted, and our conversation had become so interesting that ...

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