Recollections of the Lakes And the Lake Poets (English Library)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. This is a good, clean copy. Some yellowing due to age of the paper, but firm binding, no tears, no writing on the text pages. Taken from back cover: "This edition contains the most complete collection of De Quincey's Lake papers to appear in a single volume and the text used here is that of the original articles. It is immensely readable and alive - an anecdotal, conversational, contemporaneous portrait and account of Grasmere, Worsworth, Coleridge, and Southey, and so near the bone that Wordsworth and his family would have nothing further to do with De Quincey after it appeared. Within this first-hand biographical/critical discussion of the lives and works of these poets, De Quincey's life of Wordsworth may still be the best we have.".