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The Making of Poetry

Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels
By Adam Nicolson
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The Making of Poetry by Adam Nicolson explores the creative journey of Romantic poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. The book vividly captures the period between 1797 and 1798 when both poets resided in Somerset, England, and produced some of their most influential works. Nicolson interlaces history with personal reflection, offering a rich portrait of the landscape and its profound impact on their inspiration and literary accomplishments.
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You might enjoy this book if you're fascinated by the intertwining lives and creative processes of Romantic poets such as Wordsworth and Coleridge. It offers an immersive journey into their artistic world, full of nature, inspiration, and the era's vibrant intellectual landscape.

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The Making of Poetry

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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’; Coleridge’s unmatched hymns to friendship and fatherhood; Wordsworth’s 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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Adam Nicolson's The Making of Poetry is praised for its vivid portrayal of poetry and landscape, captivating readers with its brilliant prose and evocative illustrations. Reviews highlight the book's insightful exploration of Wordsworth and Coleridge's creative processes, with Nicolson’s writing drawing comparisons to renowned literary figures such as Richard Holmes and Robert Macfarlane. It is acclaimed for its originality, intensity, and the infectious enthusiasm Nicolson brings to the interplay between poetry, nature, and intellectual discovery.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780008126490

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 February 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: William Collins

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 33.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 410g

Pages: 400

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About the Author

Adam Nicolson is the author of many books on history, travel and the environment. He is winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and the British Topography Prize and lives on at Sissinghust Castle in Kent. His most recent book for HarperCollins is Sissinghurst, a wonderful and personal biography of a place – the story of a heritage, of a vision of connecting once more buildings and garden, fields and farms and of how that dream was realised.

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