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037    |bFarrar Straus & Giroux, C/O Mps 16365 James Madison Hwy,
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100 1  Nicolson, Adam,|d1957-|eauthor. 
245 14 The making of poetry :|bColeridge, the Wordsworths, and 
       their year of marvels /|cAdam Nicolson ; with woodcuts and
       paintings by Tom Hammick. 
250    First American edition. 
264  1 New York :|bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,|c2020. 
300    390 pages :|billustrations (chiefly color) ;|c24 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-377) and 
       index. 
520    "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 poetry 
       Wordsworth and Coleridge made was not from settled 
       conclusions but from the adventure on which they embarked,
       thinking of poetry as a challenge to all received ideas, 
       stripping away the dead matter, looking to shed 
       consciousness and so change the world. What emerges is a 
       portrait of these great figures seen not as literary 
       monuments but as young men, troubled, ambitious, dreaming 
       of a vision of wholeness, knowing they had greatness in 
       them but still in urgent search of the paths toward it. 
       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."--
       |cAmazon. 
600 10 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,|d1772-1834|xHomes and haunts
       |zEngland|zQuantock Hills. 
600 10 Wordsworth, William,|d1770-1850|xHomes and haunts|zEngland
       |zQuantock Hills. 
600 10 Wordsworth, Dorothy,|d1771-1855|xHomes and haunts|zEngland
       |zQuantock Hills. 
650  0 English poetry|y18th century|xHistory and criticism. 
650  0 Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) 
651  0 Quantock Hills (England) 
775 08 |iReproduction of (manifestation):|aNicolson, Adam, 1957-
       |tMaking of poetry|dLondon : William Collins, an imprint 
       of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2019|z9780008126476 
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