They made this attempt through the medium of poetry-one of the men was William Wordsworth, the other was Samuel Taylor Coleridge-and they failed, obviously. (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 become so estranged from our own sustaining element that we could point at it and call it “nature”? I love nature: There aren’t many things you can say that are simultaneously as banal and as ontologically forlorn as that.Īdam Nicolson’s The Making of Poetry is a glowingly-one might almost say throbbingly-detailed account of an experimental year: the period from the summer of 1797 to the autumn of 1798 when two men, high on revolution, made a do-or-die attempt to rewire the relationship between the mind and the world. Picture courtesy of the Wordsworth Trust and Dove Cottage, located in Grasemere, was home to William and Dorothy Wordsworth between the years of 17.Nature.
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The Norton Anthology: English Literature 8th Edition Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Wordsworth Not only did Wordsworth and Coleridge have similar poetic interests, but the two developed a deep and lasting friendship that was able to withstand the trials of their drug addiction, bouts of depression and mutual artistic criticism. Their mutual friend Robert Southey, who was also a poet, worked with them and the trio became known at the “Lake Poets.” In this page, we will more deeply explore the relationship between these two Romantic poets and the people, like Southey, who shaped their lives and their poetry while they lived in Grasmere. Over the course of their collaboration, the second edition followed suit in 1800. In 1798, the two poets joined together to publish the first edition of Lyrical Ballads, a collection of poems that is considered by many to be the definitive starting point of the Romantic Era. During this time, Wordsworth and Coleridge greatly influenced, criticized and inspired eachother’s poetry.
Upon meeting Wordsworth, Coleridge decided to move to Grasmere to be in close proximity to his fellow poet. In a chance meeting that would change the course of poetic history, Samuel Taylor Coleridge made the acquaintance of William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, in Somerset in 1795. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth
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