ABSTRACT
Ann Wroe claims that Wordsworth's presence has moulded the landscape as surely as streams and rain, so that the whole area round Grasmere, not just Dove Cottage, is a monument and museum to him. If Black's marked the start of a new cultural phenomenon, Wordsworthian tourism, Wroe's article alerts them to how at the start of the twenty-first century the poet remains a continuing force in England's Lake District. As Wordsworth's writings nurtured the immense numbers of tourists to the Lake District, tourism shaped his popular reputation. Although he wrote masterpieces set in the landscape of Wales, the West Country, Scotland and the Alps, Wordsworth has always been popularly associated with the Lake District. This association has much to do with nineteenth-century guidebook's eagerness to locate his poems in the landscape of the district. Cultural Geographers have observed that Wordsworth's growing fame and the development of Lake District tourism influenced each other.
