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The Making of Poetry - Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels (Hardcover)
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The Making of Poetry - Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels (Hardcover)
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2019 Wordsworth and
Coleridge as you've never seen them before in this new book by Adam
Nicolson, brimming with poetry, art and nature writing. Proof that
poetry can change the world. It is the most famous year in English
poetry. Out of it came The Ancient Mariner and 'Kubla Khan', as
well as Coleridge's unmatched hymns to friendship and fatherhood,
Wordsworth's revolutionary verses in Lyrical Ballads and the
greatness of 'Tintern Abbey', his paean to the unity of soul and
cosmos, love and understanding. Bestselling and award-winning
writer Adam Nicolson tells the story, almost day by day, of the
year in the late 1790s that Coleridge, Wordsworth, his sister
Dorothy and an ever-shifting cast of friends, dependants and
acolytes spent together in the Quantock Hills in Somerset. To a
degree never shown before, The Making of Poetry explores the idea
that these poems came from this place, and that only by
experiencing the physical circumstances of the year, in all
weathers and all seasons, at night and at dawn, in sunlit reverie
and moonlit walks, can the genesis of the poetry start to be
understood. What emerges is a portrait of these great figures as
young people, troubled, ambitious, dreaming of a vision of
wholeness, knowing they had greatness in them but still in urgent
search of the paths towards it. The poetry they made was not from
settled conclusions but from the adventure on which they were all
embarked, seeing what they wrote as a way of stripping away all the
dead matter, exfoliating consciousness, penetrating its depths.
Poetry for them was not an ornament for civilisation but a
challenge to it, a means of remaking the world.
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