The Guardian

Radical Wordsworth, Well-Kept Secrets, William Wordsworth review – lives of the poet

Republican, eco-warrior young Wordsworth v grand older poet – 250 after his birth, do we still have to take sides? James Boswell started his biography of Dr Johnson on an anxious note: “To write the ...
Daily Mail

Wordsworth, Coleridge – and a biography so beguiling it’s poetry in itself

The Making Of Poetry: Coleridge, The Wordsworths And Their Year Of Marvels Adam Nicolson William Collins £25 For just over a year, two of ...
The Guardian

The Making of Poetry by Adam Nicholson review – Coleridge and Wordsworth's year

How a year spent in the Quantocks and a clash of personalities produced some world famous poems William Hazlitt recorded many peculiarities of his teenage idol Samuel Taylor Coleridge, among which was ...
The New Yorker

Strange Fits of Passion

Has there ever been a great poet as tempting to laugh at as William Wordsworth? The tradition of mocking him is as old as the tradition of revering him. In 1807, when Wordsworth published “Poems, in ...