The making of poetry : Coleridge, the Wordsworths and their year of marvels

Nicolson, Adam, 1957- author.

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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 songs in Lyrical Ballads and the greatness of Tintern Abbey, his paean to the...

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