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THE GANG: COLERIDGE, THE HUTCHINSONS & THE WORDSWORTHS IN 1802.(Review)

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From: American Scholar
Date: 20010622
Author:NEHRING, CRISTINA

THE GANG: COLERIDGE, THE HUTCHINSONS & THE WORDSWORTHS IN 1802 By John Worthen. Yale University Press. $30.

William Wordsworth was not a man to doubt his own merits. "He says he does not see much difficulty in writing like Shakespeare, if he had a mind to try it," Charles Lamb told a friend in 1808. "Nothing," Lamb added, "is wanting but the mind."

While Wordsworth's reputation with the general public soared--he became poet laureate in the latter part of his life and lived to see the very chairs he sat on declared sacred--Lamb's skepticism was echoed by some of the harder ...

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