THE WONDERFUL YEAR
WORDSWORTH AND COLERIDGE, 1795- | 1834, by H. M. Margoliuth; Oxiord University Press (Home University Library). Enflish price, 6/-. OLERIDGE : and Wordsworth first met in 1795, at Bristol; but the two poets were not living within walking (continued on next page)
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(continued from previous page) : distance of each other until 1797. It was then, too, that Coleridge had his first meeting with Wordsworth’s _ sister, Dorothy. Close association brought a creative excitement. There were longsometimes heroic-walks; ideas passed between the friends and, were filled out with Coleridge’s intellectual power, Wordsworth’s vision of nature, and Dorothy’s eye for detail. From this ferment camé Lyrical Ballads. The amazing fact is that the period of most intense effort was a single year. Between July, 1797, and July, 1798, Coleridge wrote The Ancient Mariner and many smaller pieces, including "Kubla Khan," "Frost at Midnight" and "Fears in Solitude." Most of Wordsworth’s contributions to the Ballads belong to the same wonderful year; and ne also wrote Peter Bell and several hundred lines of The Recluse, later to be used in The Prelude and The Excursion. That was virtually the end of collabo! ration. Friendship remained, though it was to suffer strain and interruption; but the creative union of these remarkable minds was over. The story of this friendship-the most fruitful in English literature-is told clearly and briefly by an author who has already written an excellent study of Blake for the same
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 736, 21 August 1953, Page 13
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241THE WONDERFUL YEAR New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 736, 21 August 1953, Page 13
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