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The Gardenthatconnects: a Communityof Wordsworthand TheTheEnglishSociety English Society of Japan The GardenthatConnects: A Communityof Wordsworthand his Readersi YOSHIKAWA Saeko A garden connects humans and nature, family and also sociable gardens, as were the gardens at Nether friends, difllerent times, differcnt classes and difflerent cli- Stowey and Greta Hall. 1[hey mediated between private mates. Coleridge's garden at Nether Stowey was a space and public life, which is one important feature of Ro- for cultivating friendship,2 and John Thelwall dreamt of mantic gardens, Over the years, Wordsworth's gardens a simitarly sociable life digging a garden pler,S At Greta cennected a wide range ofpeople, malcing an actual and Hal1 in Keswick, a stranger could walk into the garden imaginary literary community His gardens served to dis- and become acquainted with the occupier Southey4 John seminarc his ideas and sensibiliry among yisitors and cul- Claudius Loudon, editor of the Gkinteneis Mbugngine and tivated the taste for appreciating his poctrM Starting from advocate of public gardens, claimcd that such spaces a network of family and friends based in Dove Cettage " could [bring] the rich more into contact with the poor" garden, this essay will trace how the Wbrdsworthian lit- ("Summary View" 710). David Lester Richardson, a erary comrnuniry was developed at Rydal Mount and professor at Calcutta,5 hoped that the taste fbr floricul-then circled back to Dove Cottage, where it now draws "brother ture would be shared between his exiles" and in numerous non-English-spealcing visitors. I will con- "narive IJerordsworth's friends"inCalcutta(8). sider how gardens mediated between the Karen Sayer in Cbunt?JJ Cbtnges; A Cbeltuml Histou, and his rcaders th[ough time 2nd space, across so- poet "where argues that the large-scale formal garden had once cial and cultural differences, and fostered the peer's bcen the site ofcontrelled Nature and public displaori . werld-wide reputation, by the Victorian period the garden had become that much more homels and vernacular" (40). Wil- private 1. Dove Cottage,1799-1808 iJVrordswoTth's liam gardens at Dovc Cottage and Rydal "homets Mount were such private': spaces, but they were On Christmas Eve of 1799, only four days after moving into Dove Cottage, Wordsworth and his sis[er Dorothy i lhis is a revised version of the at the NASSR "?brdsworth had already begun to a at the "Romanticpaperpresented plan garden Connections," at the SupernumeraryCenference, back oF the house (X)Ullliam and Derothy Wordsworth, University ofTbkyo on 13 June 2014. IEhis research is supported Leuers, E}irly lears 274) , Making a garden was for them by JSPS KAKENHI, Grant Number 25S70298 and 15H03189. retrieve Z "the a way to and strengthen family ties, which had Coleridge rcrnarks in Biqgraphia Litenert'a that cultiva- been since the early death of their As tion of . fricndship" was his chief motiye in cheosing Nether precarious parents. Stowcy for his residence (1: 188) . Dorothy's Gmsmere fouruats record in detail, the garden S ''Lines See John Thelwall, Vltitten at Bridgwater in Somerset- was the product ef co-operation between William and ":Ib shire" (i)7ti324-25). DorothF which is cetebrated in VVilliam's poem, a 4 "strolled John iJailson recounts how he into a nurscry-garden, Butterfiy" ("I've watch'd you now a fu11 halfhour"): ,..and found [himselfl at the door of [Southey's]= (401). rlhus mediated by the garden, Wilson made acquainted with the 'Ihis plot ofOrchard-ground is ours; poet Southey. 5 My trees they are, my Sister's Aowers; Dayid Lester Richardsen (1801-1865) was a poet and writer (1O-11) based in Calcutta and professor of English at Hindu Corlege. `:Kchardson," See The garden brought b2ck to Wordsworth childhood [ i7 (T43)l NII-Electronic Library Service TheTheEnglishSociety English Society of Japan i8 (i44) YOSHIKAVeLkSaeko memories of"[hisl Father's House" at Cockermouth the g2rden, whose alkctions are likened to shadow and "[his] ("The Sparrow's Ncst" 8), and memories of Fa- sunshine, breeze and calm, harmonizing the garden and ther's family" ("Tb a Butterfly" ["Stay near me-do not people gathered there. iJCrllson iJainder- take thy flight''] 9). Coming to stay a while, his brother subsequently [ook up his residence at "his John exulted to find that Father's Children had once mere to enjoy rhe company ofieUbrdsworth and his liter- again a home together" (VUilliam and Dorothy W6rd- ary circle; and many fo11owed him. De Quincey lived in sworrh, Lettet33 Ekenly lears 649) . And then, as thc poem Grasmerel the Arnold family made their summer home "Farewell" tells us, Mary Hutchinson, his fuiure wife, was at Fox How undet Loughrigg; Edward Qliillinan who "She'11 welcomed by the garden as a new family membcr: lived at I.oughrigg Holme became the husband of Dora come to you [the gatden] ; te yeu herselfwill wed; 1 Wordsworth, the poet's daughter, Harriet Martineau And love the blessed life which we lead here" (31-32) . built her house, the Knoll, at Ambleside (Lindop 31, large literary The garden also fostered titerary friendships. Here 35-36,49-50).Inthls way a circle gtadual- came Coleridge, Sourhey, Charles LIoyd, Clarkson, ly formed, centred on Rydal Mount and attracting all Humphry Davy; Daltlter' Scott, and De Qpincey (Gill, kinds ofother literati and literary tourists. Shared sensi- "the W7Uizam Wbndsworth 183-84, 244-45, 272-73). In retro- bilities were cultivated, such that the old Iabel of spect we can see that a literary circle was being formed Lalce School" seriously underestimated the scale oF litet- there, although at that time ic was perhaps little more ary community in the area, This li[erary circle would than an extended famiLy circle. Dovc Cottage garden, continue to flourish after Wordsworth:s death, and sur- then, was basically a private, personal space; while a wid- vived until the turn of the centuryL7 iOahen er, more inclusive social space was evenrually to be real- the aurhor Charles Mackay arrived at Rydal in "the ized in Rydal Mount. 1 846 he fbund Bard of the Excursien walking in his garden" (41), He spent two hours with Wofdsworth, "poets, talking abour poetrB criticism, hill-climbing, au- 2. Rydal Mount, 1813-1870s6 tograph-hunting, and various other matters" (42). "young Immediately after rhe Wbrdsworths moved in in May Mackay also mentions another enthusiast in lit- a of com- erature, who, come 18I3, RydalMount became hub intellectual ]ike[himselel, had to p2y histe- 'Ihese municy: It attracted writers and arrists both male andi fe- spects to the bard" (44). two literary tourists met male, from home and abroad, John Keats arrived unan- in Wordsworth's gnrden and became companion travel- nounced in the summer of 1818 (Gill, U}7ainm WloreZiworth lers for three days among the Lakes, Mackay offers an 329). John Wilson described his own visir of the same image of Rydal Mount garden as a kind ofopen-air salon year in an article for Blackwoods ELfinbutgh M}ignzine: where literary men and women might gather and talk about Iiterature, politics, and current aflhirs. During the calm summer evening we sat in a sort of Female writers also played a crucial role in publicizing hanging garden, beneath rhc shadow of some old the garden at Rydal Mount. It was visited by such popu- pine-trees] , , . now was I charmed by the goodness lar writers as Maria Jane JewsburF Felicia Hemans, Leti- of his heart; for young and old were alike the ob- tia Landon, fydia Sigourney and Harriet Martineau; all jects oF his affectiens, rhat wandered carelessty of them wrote down their impressions of the house and among them all, and seemed, in that quiet garden garden for popular magazincs,8 Arnong them Jewsbury's of Eden, at once shadow and sunshine, breeze and 7 calm. (744) An ebituary fbr Miss Frances ArnoJd, youngest child of 'lhomas `'she Arnold at Fox How remarks that shared to the fu11 the interests of the wide literary circle that in the i)ebrdsworth flollrished Here is represented as ifhe were a genius of Lake Country for fifty years afler 'Jebrdsworth died" ("Dcath ef 6 This and the fo11owing sectLens are partly built upon. and de- MissArnold"). 8 veloped fiom, what is discussed in chapters 4 and 8 of my own See Barker 577-78, 622, 759-60; William and Dorothy iJObrdsworth, book, Sk7}'aiam il7brttFworth and the fi;vention of fo"ttsm, 1820- Letters, Later }?zars 125-26. See also Ybshikawa 56- 1900. 57, 65, 76, 83, 102. NII-ElectionicNII-Electronic Library Service TheTheEnglishSociety English Society of Japan The Garden that Conneas, A Community ofi)Obrdsworth and hjs Readers (i45) i9 "A poem Poet's Home" was particularly influential: John Griscom, N,H. Carrer and Emerson,ii all ofwhom had praise for the poet's garden, and through their writ- Lo"3 and whire, yet scarcely seen ings Wordsworth would gain a wlder readership in the Are its walls, for mantling green; United States. One American, Benjamin Tha[cher Not a window lets in light, (1809-1840), author, editor and admirer of iJ7ord- But through flowers clustering bright; sworth, recounts how the poer showed him around when t-ttt-t-tt-t---t--t-t----t-t-tt-t-t-tttt-t he visited in October 1837: Winding walk, and sheltered nook, For student grave, and graver book; The little yard of rocky mQuntain-side, which he Or a bird-like bower, perchance, had given him off his own, was covered with every Fit fbr maiden and rom2nce. (15-18, 23-26) variety ofbeaurifu1 English plants, The rocks them- selves bloomed with lichens and mosses; the fences 'Ihe poet's home and garden is portrayed here as display- and the little swinging wicket had their share; and `'mantling" ing a symbiotic relationship together man the doorway and windows ofthe smal1 snug cottage "Rydal IJUlater and nature, Landon's peem and Grasmere in the corner, under the trees, which finished the Lake, rhe Residence of"JVordsworth" (1838) cenvcyed a feast of the picture, were wreathed over with matted iJerasn't similar image, in which the garden nestling in the hill- masses ofvines.
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