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Link to exhibition : http://wordsworth.org.uk/visit/wordsworth-war-waterloo.html

"To mark the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo, the Wordsworth Trust is staging the first-ever exhibition to present William Wordsworth and other writers of the Romantic period as ‘war poets’.

Wordsworth, War & Waterloo displays hand-written manuscripts of William Wordsworth’s war poetry alongside stunning pictures, satirical cartoons and fascinating physical objects from the conflict which pitted Britain and her allies against France. These include a cannon from Nelson’s flagship, cannonballs from the Battle of Salamanca, weapons and costumes. There is also a gruesome collection of teeth. At the time, these were called 'Waterloo Teeth', and no doubt many were taken from the battlefield itself but we cannot state that the ones on display were from this source. 'Waterloo Teet'h became the generic term for teeth taken from corpses and used to make false teeth for the wealthy.

Visitors will discover how the dramatic events of the war changed the lives of people across Britain, including women and children, focusing on how the people from our region reacted to the threat of invasion.

With a particular focus on artistic and literary responses to the conflict, Wordsworth, War & Waterloo demonstrates how war shaped Wordsworth’s ideas about his own role as a poet and how he felt towards the major military and naval figures of the period – Admiral Horatio Nelson, the Duke of Wellington, and, in particular, Napoleon Bonaparte.

It tells the story of the poet’s changing responses to the war that began in 1793 and culminated with Wellington’s victory over Napoleon at Waterloo in June 1815.

The exhibition is richly illustrated with a number of important paintings, drawings and cartoons from the period, bringing together Benjamin Robert Haydon’s portraits of Wordsworth, Wellington and Napoleon for the first time outside London. It also features a range of satirical cartoons on the war and its leading personalities by the brilliant caricaturist James Gillray, and displays J. M. W. Turner’s sketchbook from his visit to the site of the battle."