in Surrey, is Burford Bridge near Dorking, where Keats wrote part of
his _Endymion_, where George Meredith had his summer home, and where
"the country of his poetry" is located.
In London, it is a pleasure to trace some of the greatest literary
associations in the world. We may stand at the corner of Monkwell and
Silver streets, on the site of a building in which Shakespeare wrote
some of his greatest plays. Milton lived in the vicinity and is buried
not far distant in St. Giles Church. In Westminster Abbey we find the
graves of many of the greatest authors, from Chaucer to Tennyson.
London is not only Dickens Land and Thackeray Land, but also the
"Land" of many other writers. We may still eat in the Old Cheshire
Cheese, where Johnson and Goldsmith dined.
Those interested in literary England ought to include the cathedral
towns in their itinerary, so that they may visit the wonderful "poems
in stone," some of which, _e.g_., Canterbury (Chaucer), Winchester
(Izaak Walton, Jane Austen), Lichfield (Johnson), have literary
associations. For this reason, all of the cathedral towns in England
have been included in the literary map.
REFERENCE LIST FOR LITERARY ENGLAND:
Baedeker's _Great Britain_ (includes England and Scotland).
Baedeker's _London and its Environs_.
Adcock's _Famous Houses and Literary Shrines of London_.
Lang's _Literary London_.
Hutton's _Literary Landmarks in London_.
Lucas's _A Wanderer in London_.
Shelley's _Literary By-Paths in Old England_.
Baildon's _Homes and Haunts of Famous Authors_.
Bates's _From Gretna Green to Land's End_.
Masson's _In the Footsteps of the Poets_.
Wolfe's _A Literary Pilgrimage among the Haunts of Famous British
Authors_.
Salmon's _Literary Rambles in the West of England_.
Hutton's _A Book of the Wye_.
Headlam's _Oxford (Medieval Towns Series)_.
Winter's _Shakespeare's England_.
Murray's _Handbook of Warwickshire_.
Lee's _Stratford-on-Avon, from the Earliest Times to the Death of
Shakespeare_.
Tompkins's _Stratford-on-Avon_ (Dent's _Temple Topographies_).
Brassington's _Shakespeare's Homeland_.
Winter's _Grey Days and Gold_ (Shakespeare).
Collingwood's _The Lake Counties_ (Dent's County Guides).
Wordsworth's _The Prelude_ (Books I.-V.).
Rawnsley's _Literary Associations of the English Lakes_.
Knight's _Through the Wordsworth Country_.
Bradley's _Highways and Byways in the English Lakes_.
Jerrold's _Surrey_ (Dent's
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