One of the Sonnets is addressed to Skiddaw. In his poem, ‘At the Grave of Burns’, Wordsworth says:

"Huge Criffel's hoary top ascends

By Skiddaw seen,

Neighbours we were, and loving friends

We might have been."

And his sister Dorothy records in her Journal of the Scotch tour of 1803: "Aug. i8tA. Went to the churchyard where Burns is buried. ... I cannot take leave  of the country which we passed through to-day without  mentioning that we saw the Cumberland mountains, within  half a mile of Ellisland, Burns' house, the last view we had  of them."

“Pelion and Ossa flourish side by side,

Together in immortal books enrolled :

His ancient dower Olympus hath not sold ;

And that inspiring Hill, which " did divide

Into two ample horns his forehead wide,"

Shines with poetic radiance as of old ;

While not an English Mountain we behold

By the celestial Muses glorified.

Yet round our sea-girt shore they rise in crowds :

What was the great Parnassus' self to Thee,

Mount Skiddaw ? In his natural sovereignty

Our British Hill is nobler far ; he shrouds

His double front among Atlantic clouds,

And pours forth streams more sweet than Castaly.”

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