Volume 54, Number 6 · April 12, 2007
The Passionate Partnership
By Richard Holmes
The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge
by Adam Sisman
Viking, 480 pp., $27.95
Coleridge once said that people should take time to lean on gates. There is a wooden gate above a field in Dorset which is well worth leaning on. It is a plain, five-bar farm gate, and in early summer is shrouded in hawthorn blossoms. It opens off a little lane, and gives onto a gently sloping, twenty-acre field that curves down to a Georgian farmhouse called Racedown Lodge. Somewhere beyond in the valley, full of birdsong, flows the river Synderford. This is a particularly good gate for contemplating the mysteries of Romantic friendship.
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