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Helvellyn
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Helvellyn (hĕlvĕl`ĭn), mountain, 3,118 ft (950 m) high, in the Lake District, NW England, SE of Keswick. Near the summit is a memorial to Charles Gough, who died (1805) there of exposure. He was commemorated in poems by Sir Walter Scott Scott, Sir Walter, 1771–1832, Scottish novelist and poet, b. Edinburgh. He is considered the father of both the regional and the historical novel.

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 and William Wordsworth Wordsworth, William, 1770–1850, English poet, b. Cockermouth, Cumberland. One of the great English poets, he was a leader of the romantic movement in England.

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In 1791 he graduated from Cambridge and traveled abroad.
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Helvellyn
a mountain in NW England, in the Lake District. Height: 949 m (3114 ft.)


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