The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels
English
By (author): Adam Nicolson
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2019
This is a book of wonders Sunday Times
Spellbinding and intelligent Financial Times
Extraordinary and engrossing Spectator
It was the most extraordinary year. In a book brimming with poetry and nature writing, biography and adventure, Adam Nicolson walks in the footsteps of Coleridge, Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy during the months in the late 1790s they spent together in the Quantock Hills.
Out of it came The Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Lyrical Ballads and Tintern Abbey; Coleridges unmatched hymns to friendship and fatherhood; Wordsworths revolutionary verses and paeans to the unity of soul and cosmos, love and understanding. In short, a poetry that sought to remake the world.
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