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In their youth.(Book review)

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Adam Sisman The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge. Viking, 480 pages, $27.95

Writers, craving praise and hating criticism, are unusually contentious. Their personal quarrels, which spill into print, are notorious: Pope and Colley Cibber, Johnson and Lord Chesterfield, Ruskin and Whistler, Wells and Henry James, Wilson and Nabokov. These bitter fights are balanced by many warm, stimulating friendships: Pope and Swift, Johnson and Boswell, Byron and Shelley, Frost and Edward Thomas, Owen and Sassoon. Adam Sisman's book focuses on the apparently ideal six years of friendship (1797-1803), first in Somerset and then in the Lake District, of Wordsworth and ...

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