Osorio a Tragedy, as Originally Written in 1797 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Osorio a Tragedy, as Originally Written in 1797<br><br>In the summer of 1797 two of the greatest of modern English poets, Coleridge and Wordsworth, met for the first time at Racedown in Dorsetshire. Wordsworth was in his twenty-eighth and Coleridge in his twenty-fifth year, in the spring-tide of his creative faculty. He had come over on a visit to Wordsworth from Nether-Stowey in Somersetshire, where he had been engaged in writing the tragedy of Osorio. Wordsworth was also occupied with a tragedy, The Borderers, which was completed in the following November, offered to the managers of Covent Garden Theatre, and summarily rejected by them, and which only saw the light forty-five years afterwards.<br><br>The story of the fortunes and misfortunes of Coleridge's Osorio, with which alone we are concerned here, will take longer to tell.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.