02883cam a2200361 i 4500 413289699 TxAuBib 20200224120000.0 200114s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780374200213 HRD 35.00 0374200211 HRD 35.00 (OCoLC)1135866900 TxAuBib rda Nicolson, Adam, 1957- The Making of poetry [BOOK] : Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and their year of marvels / Adam Nicolson ; with woodcuts and paintings by Tom Hammick. First American edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. 390 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Originally published in 2019 by William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Great Britain" -Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and index. June 1797 to September 1798 is the most famous year in English poetry. Out of it came Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and “Kubla Khan,” as well as his unmatched hymns to friendship and fatherhood, and William Wordsworth’s revolutionary songs in Lyrical Ballads along with “Tintern Abbey,” Wordsworth's paean to the unity of soul and cosmos, love and understanding. In The Making of Poetry, Adam Nicolson embeds himself in the reality of this unique moment, exploring the idea that these poems came from this particular place and time, 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. The artist Tom Hammick accompanied Nicolson for much of the year, making woodcuts from the fallen timber in the park at Alfoxden where the Wordsworths lived. Interspersed throughout the book, his images bridge the centuries, depicting lives at the source of our modern sensibility: a psychic landscape of doubt and possibility, full of beauty and thick with desire for a kind of connectedness that seems permanently at hand and yet always out of reach. Provided by publisher. 20200224. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 1772-1834 Homes and haunts England Quantock Hills. Wordsworth, William 1770-1850 Home and haunts England Quantock Hills. Wordsworth, Dorothy 1771-1855 Homes and haunts England Quantock Hills. English poetry 18th century History and criticism. Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Quantock Hills (England.) Hammick, Tom, 1963-, artist.