Nature. We all know what it means. (Cows, the sky, puddles, volcanoes …) But what does it mean to have this single, oddly abstract word for the entire domain of the organic and nonhuman? How did we ...

In Coleridge and Wordsworth: Lyrical Ballads & Other Poems, readers encounter a seminal collection that captures the fervor and foundational spirit of the Romantic era. This anthology not only ...

On The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels, by Adam Nicolson. A compelling portrait of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge emerges from Adam Nicolson’s ...

IN the absence of any adequate biography of Coleridge, these two volumes of his letters, 1 edited by his grandson, Mr. Ernest Hartley Coleridge, will be eagerly welcomed. By far the greater part of ...

With “Pandaemonium,” a vivid depiction of the most creative period in the life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, involving his relationship with William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy, director Julien ...

ADAM SISMAN'S most recent book was a skilful account of a literary friendship between Dr Johnson, the great 18th-century raconteur, essayist, dictionary-maker and poet, and his faithful amanuensis and ...

In February 1798, in a house on the edge of Somerset’s Quantock Hills, William Wordsworth sat drafting the first exploratory passages of his great poem, “The Prelude.” At the same time, his friend, ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Hazlitt both testified that William Wordsworth in his radical years believed in the doctrine of philosophical necessity. Prompted by that testimony, this essay ...