Alhough Mr Johnston paints Wordsworth as a flawed character, he also reclaims him as a swashbuckling young Romantic in the Byronic mode.

ECONOMIST: British poets

The plaiting of fiction and personal documentary by now a classic mode of indie modernism lends extra poignancy and self-deprecation to the low-key romantic agonies and financial struggles of ambitious yet uncertain bohemians.

NEWYORKER: Open Five