Wordsworth Grasmere, including Dove Cottage, the Museum and the Café, will close early on Thursday 1 October, with last entry at 13.20 and closing at 14.00. We’ll be back to our usual opening hours on Friday 2 October.

What is Romanticism?

Romanticism is a general, collective term to describe much of the art and literature produced during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

During this period, there was a broad shift of emphasis in the arts, away from the structured, intellectual, reasoned approach of the 18th century (which is often called the ‘Age of Reason’, or the ‘Enlightenment’) towards ways of looking at the world which recognised the importance of the emotions and the imagination.