The Making of Poetry

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. The Making of Poetry tells the story of how two young men of genius, living on the edge of the Quantock Hills in Somerset, developed a new understanding of the world, of nature and of themselves. Bestselling and award-winning writer Adam Nicolson recreates this 'year of miracles' by embedding himself in the lives they led in Nether Stowey, over 200 years ago. The 16 months these poets spent here has a claim to being the most famous moment in the history of English poetry. It has always been portrayed as a time of delight and overabundant creativity, from which extraordinary poetry emerged. In fact, it was a time of adventure and perplexity. Wordsworth and Coleridge were both in retreat from the revolutionary politics of the 1790s. Wordsworth was unheard of and Coleridge under attack. Both wanted escape...