Roe Nicholas. English Romantic Writers and the West Country

Springer, 2010. — 323 p.Long confounded with a monolithic British entity or misrepresented as 'Lakers' and 'Cockneys', the diverse regional forms of 'English Romanticism' are ripe for reassessment. Ranging west of a line between the Wye at Tintern and Jane Austen's Chawton, this book offers a first reconfiguration of Romantic culture in terms of English regional identity.
It may surprise some readers to learn that Jonathan Wordsworth, despite his family name and ancestry (he was the direct descendant of William Wordsworth’s younger brother Christopher), was a West Country man at heart. He was born and grew up in Dorset, where his father was a master at Bryanston, and always retained deep-rooted Wessex sympathies.