The Friendship Wordsworth & Coleridge

by Sisman, Adam

• ISBN13: 9780143112969
• ISBN10: 0143112961
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-29
• Publisher: Penguin Books

Summary

The friendship between William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge produced dazzling results-most notably Lyrical Ballads, the volume that launched the Romantic movement. Though much has been written about each poet, The Friendship is the first modern biography to consider them together. Award-winning author Adam sisman presents, "with unmatched thoroughness, balance and verve" (The Nation), a wonderfully readable account that brilliantly evokes these two extraordinary personalities and situates them in their time. The result offers insights into the rich but neglected topic of close friendship, exploring the influence each writer had on the other, as well as providing glimpses of the creative process itself. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Adam Sisman is the author of Boswell-'s Presumptuous Task, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He lives with his wife, novelist Robyn Sisman.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. xi
Maps
Wordsworth and Coleridge's West Country	p. xiv
Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lakes	p. xv
Introduction	p. xxi
Prologue	p. xxvii
Strangers
Revolution	p. 3
Reaction	p. 27
Idealism	p. 61
Sedition	p. 86
Friends
Contact	p. 123
Retreat	p. 151
Communion	p. 176
Collaboration	p. 213
Separation	p. 252
Amalgamation	p. 280
Acquaintances
Subordination	p. 329
Estrangement	p. 381
Coleridge's Plan for The Recluse	p. 427
Acknowledgments	p. 433
Notes	p. 435
Index	p. 457
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