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Wordsworth’s Killarney

C. Hunt, after A. Nicholl, ‘Lower Lake, Killarney’, from Picturesque Sketches of Some of the Finest Landscape and Coast Scenery of Ireland (Dublin, 1835). V.g.29.

The exhibition Ireland and the English Lake Poets continues in the Long Room of the Old Library this month, running until the end of May. Amongst literary treasures on show, the exhibition features a rare print of Killarney’s Lower Lake by Charles Hunt (after Andrew Nicholl). In this blog post, curator Dr. Brandon Yen explores the impression Killarney made on Wordsworth and his fellow writers. Continue reading “Wordsworth’s Killarney”