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  3. [A] As its subtitle suggests, this is a romantic book about some young Romantics, but it sets off by offering a revisionist inte

[A] As its subtitle suggests, this is a romantic book about some young Romantics, but it sets off by offering a revisionist inte

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问题    [A] As its subtitle suggests, this is a romantic book about some young Romantics, but it sets off by offering a revisionist interpretation of an experience that its principals—Dorothy in particular— celebrated as an ecstatic moment of "unbridled delight and wellbeing". Furthermore Nicolson, in the footsteps of Wordsworth, comes with his own Coleridge, the prodigiously gifted and colourful artist Tom Hammick, whose dreamy woodcuts and paintings are scattered through the narrative. Quite soon, despite Nicolson’s first intentions, most revisionist thoughts have been quietly put to sleep with biographer and artist in full flow.
   [B] English literature has many such magic moments: 1599—the year of Hamlet, As You Like It and Julius Caesar—is one; 1922—the publication of Ulysses and The Waste Land—another. But none is more famous in English poetry than 1797-98, partly because its leading characters made it so. Still, the record of their imaginative frenzy is off the Richter scale. This was the year in which two young men of genius and their muse found the inspiration for Kubla Khan, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Lyrical Ballads, among many others, and transformed the English literary imagination forever.
   [C] Nicolson has long nurtured a penchant for "great literature" (books on Homer and the King James Bible) and our landscape (Sissinghurst, the Somerset Levels and the national coastline). On this occasion, poetry and place are perfectly braided together in prose whose biographical mood pays tribute to Richard Holmes and whose topographical fervour evokes Robert Macfarlane. On top of these influences, Nicolson embeds himself in the story of this year, as if a part of him longs to be a fly on the wall in Nether Stowey and Alfoxden.
   [D] Wordsworth and Coleridge, at 27 and 24 respectively, with Dorothy in between, make an enthralling, quotable trio. Nicolson, whose method is "to lower myself into the pool of their minds", paints a memorable triptych of the two poets and their Dolly in nonstop discussion about nature, art and life itself, carried away, in Coleridge’ s account, with "an ebullient Fancy, a flowing Utterance, a light and dancing Heart, and a disposition to catch fire".
   [E] When the poets were not at home, they were walking and talking, sometimes 20, 40, even 70 miles at a stretch, often "by the light of the good moon". It seems that Coleridge never drew breath, spinning first Kubla Khan and then The Rime of the Ancient Mariner out of thin air, his head reeling with opium.
   [F] From June 1797 to the autumn of 1798, while Britain was at war with revolutionary France, Coleridge, Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, known as "Dolly", lived on the edge of the Quan-tock Hills in Somerset and began to explore a new way of looking at the world, and their place in it, as devotees of nature and the unfettered mind, almost single-handedly inventing the Romantic Movement in whose long shadow we live today. This is Adam Nicholson’s subject in The Making of Poetry.
   [G] Despite its avowed revisionism, and its references to the rural poor and the Tory repression, The Making of Poetry buys into an idea inspired by the greenwood of merrie England, in which the free-born Englishman, liberated from court and cloister, finds deepest self-expression in the forest under the canopy of the heavens.
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答案G
解析 本题需要确定文章最后一段的内容。文章最后一段往往起对全文进行总结、概括的作用。分析G段可知，该段指出《诗歌创作》对生来自由的英国人的影响，即进行自我表达。故本题选G。
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