The Making of Poetry. Adam Nicolson

      

Copyright

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      This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2019

      Copyright © Adam Nicolson 2019

      Cover illustration © Wordsworth in Darkness by Tom Hammick

      All woodcuts photographed by Leigh Simpson

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      Source ISBN: 9780008126490

      Ebook Edition © June 2019 ISBN: 9780008126483

      Version: 2020-01-13

Dedication

      For Tom Hammick

      On the island of his self

Epigraph

      The making of verses, the making of works, occurs in the edges of your life, of your time, in your late nights or early mornings … And my words, the words for me, seem to have more nervous energy when they are touching territory that I know, that I live with … I can lay my hand on [a place] and know it. And the words, the words come alive and get a kind of personality when they are involved with it for me. The landscape is image. It’s almost an element to work with, as much as it is an object of admiration.

      Seamus Heaney, speaking to Patrick Garland on Poets on Poetry, BBC 1, October 1973

      Contents

      1  Cover

      2  Title Page

      3  Copyright

      4  Dedication

      5  Epigraph

      6  Contents

      7  1 Following

      8 2 Meeting – June 1797

      9 3 Searching June 1797

      10  4 Settling – July 1797

      11  5 Walking – July and August 1797

      12  6 Informing – July and August 1797

      13  7 Dreaming – September and October 1797

      14  8 Voyaging – November 1797

      15  9 Diverging – December 1797 and January 1798

      16  10 Mooning – January and February 1798

      17  11 Remembering – February 1798

      18  12 Emerging – March 1798

      19  13 Polarising – March 1798

      20  14 Delighting – April, May and June 1798

      21  15 Authoring – June 1798

      22  16 Arriving – July 1798

      23  17 Leaving – August and September 1798

      24  Acknowledgements

      25  A Note on Tom Hammick’s Pictures

      26  Notes

      27  Bibliography

      28  Index

      29  Also by Adam Nicolson

      30  About the Publisher

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