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William Wordsworth, Landscape Architect.(Essay)

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From: Wordsworth Circle
Date: 20070922
Author:Thompson, Ian H.

In a comment reported by Percival Graves, Wordsworth believed that besides poetry he had two callings: art critic and landscape gardener. Citing this comment, in Wordsworth and the Art of Landscape. (1968), Russell Noyes concluded that "Wordsworth was a rounded and eminent practitioner of the art of landscape on its highest levels"(91). Curiously, although Noyes graduated in landscape architecture before turning to the study of literature, he does not refer to Wordsworth as a "landscape architect" anywhere in his book, although he agrees with the Rev. R.P. Graves that Wordsworth ...

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