A review by casparb
The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels by Adam Nicolson

milky tiff, the book isn't trying to be a scholarly thing but kind of pretends to be. It also feels a little too specific to be """popular""" as such. Nicolson likes to lean into yr much-received & overflowing LOVe for big Capital Letters NATURE ... morton sighs. and the general tone of this book doesn't go a whole lot further than - these poets were good and I like them and here are some manuscript parallels to the month in question in 1798. It's a pretty uncritical worship, and I end up just wondering why the book needed to be written, it all ends up a very aristocratic mode of lit-crit. honestly if you want a go at looking into the wordsworths' lives, just read dorothy's journals. they're the good ones