Greta Hall Revisited

 The following day, in Keswick, I found myself revisiting Greta Hall.

My friend, Dave, was full of excitement as he'd never visited the place before.

Of course, while visiting Greta Hall, we were paying homage to Wordsworth's co-creator of the Lyrical Ballads (1798), Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

Whose Rime of the Ancient Mariner tells a great allegorical/symbolic tale of the Christian purgation (painful purging of sin) process, and whose Kubla Khan is so masterfully put to music by my all-time, favourite band, Rush.

However, it is the lesser known Robert Southey who lived much longer at Greta Hall:

Have only encountered Southey's The Cataract of Lodore (1820) poem and The Book of the Church (1824), a history of the Church in England, which was written parallel to Wordsworth's similar themed Ecclesiastical Sonnets (1822/1850) collection.

Unlike the last time I visited Greta Hall, the place now seemed to be occupied so we didn't hang around long.

What a majestic place Greta Hall is, it should be much better known and cherished by English natives as a great piece of English culture.