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Traces the friendship and collaborations of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from their initial encounter as young men in 1795, to their creation of Lyrical Ballads, to their role in initiating England's Romantic Movement.

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‘Remarkable…compelling…excellent…this is a story with everything…Sisman persuasively outlines the reasons why these two great writers were attracted to each other, and why they fell out. Read it. Not just because it's a colourful tale, but because of what it reveals about the neuroses underpinning the creative impulse.’ Daily Telegraph

‘…an elegant tour d'horizon, a scholarly and charming summary of an often explored partnership…Adam Sisman is good at recording the complicated relationships between all concerned…Sisman has done his research thoroughly.’ The Times

‘Refreshingly direct, thoughtful and objective…Adam Sisman's insightful portrait of the lifelong friendship between two proud and complex men justifies his publisher's faith in the capacity of literary biography to thrive and endure. Sisman, like Holmes before him, has a gift for registering his subjects both in their time and our own. Their agonies, hopes and humiliations make for painful but absorbing reading.’ Sunday Times

‘Unputdownable…this is a very good book…Adam Sisman unfolds the whole of this complex and fascinating story so well that when one reaches its sad end one is moved as though learning it for the first time.’ Literary Review

‘A study of this brilliant, tricky friendship has been long overdue and “The Friendship” does the job marvellously well…the revolutionary background of their writing is described more vividly and with more clarity than in any study before…Wordsworth and Coleridge's momentous friendship and its pitiful conclusion has always had the dramatic intensity of a love story, but in Adam Sisman's hands it becomes more than this, and takes on the fatal inevitability of great tragedy.’ Sunday Telegraph

‘perceptive and affectionate…excellent…Sisman has done his research…his book is solid, trustworthy, grounded…in the very best sense.’ The Observer

‘Accumulating the evidence bit by bit, he makes the reader vividly aware of the events unfolding at the time. But in the end, argues Mr. Sisman, the friendship was central.’The Economist

‘This is a fine example of the new genre of professional biography written with great skill by someone who is not an academic specialist…Sisman weaves his double narrative with great skill…acute in its assessment of sources. It's strength is to keep multiple considerations in play concerning the personalities involved.’ Irish Times

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Adam Sisman is the author of A.J.P. Taylor: A Biography and BoswellÂ’s Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography.

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  • PublisherViking Pr
  • Publication date2007
  • ISBN 10 0670038229
  • ISBN 13 9780670038220
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  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages480
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