Somerset Lost and Found

Danger - Poets in the Quantocks!


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Drug addiction, marital breakups, professional rivalries - yes life for an 18th century creative artist wasn't so different from today. So Coleridge found when he settled in Nether Stowey north of Taunton, followed by his great friend William Wordsworth. We examine Coleridge and Wordsworth's time in Somerset - a period when they created the Romantic Poetry movement and also succumbed to Laudanum addiction and professional rivalry.

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Somerset Lost and FoundBy Phil Lowe