The period between June 1797 and September 1798, when Coleridge was with Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy at their house in the Quantocks, was possibly ‘the most famous moment in the history of English poetry’. To study that year, Nicholson walked in the footsteps of the poets, exploring their natural, social and personal environments, attempting to understand the physical experience that gave rise to works such as The Ancient Mariner and Lyrical Ballads. With woodcuts and paintings by Tom Hammick.