“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.” Diana Athill, Literary Review

“Such a satisfying book….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.” Frances Wilson, Sunday Telegraph