Romanticism:
William Wordsworth & the Age of English Romanticism

Exhibition Statement

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AND THE AGE OF ENGLISH ROMANTICISM was a national humanities project. At its center were sets of 24 full-color poster panel exhibits, each poster 38 x 22 inches, illuminating the life and work of the poet, his contemporaries in literature and art, and the extraordinary age in which they lived. The poster panel exhibits were the permanent record of the key elements in a major treasures exhibition on Wordsworth and Romanticism that opened in 1987 at The New York Public Library.

Attractively designed and visually exciting, this poster panel exhibit combined clearly written commentaries with high quality, full-color reproductions of paintings, watercolors, portraits, manuscripts, and rare books of the major artists and poets of the Age of English Romanticism. Among those represented were John Constable, J.M. W. Turner, Thomas Girtin, John Sell Cotman, William Blake, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe and Mary Shelley, and John Keats.

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