The Dark Employments of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley
by
Reeve Parker
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Troubled politically and personally, Wordsworth and Coleridge turned in 1797 to the London stage. Their tragedies, The Borderers and Osorio, were set in medieval Britain and early modern Spain to avoid the Lord Chamberlain's censorship. Drury Lane rejected both, but fifteen years later Coleridge's...