Excerpt from Osorio a Tragedy, as Originally Written in 1797
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.
The story of the fortunes and misfortunes of Coleridge"s Osorio, with which alone we are concerned here, will take longer to tell.
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