“The Critic’s Notebook,” by the Editors

“The Critic’s Notebook,” by the Editors

Nonfiction: On the Romantics, by Margaret Drabble (Thames & Hudson): This satchel-sized, forest-green volume is ripe to be taken to go and thumbed through in the setting its subjects favored: nature, full of what Wordsworth called “that beauty, which . . . Hath terror in it.” Wordsworth, his sister Dorothy, and their friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge take up much of Margaret Drabble’s attention in On the Romantics, an affectionate survey of the tit…