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This anthology contains nine masterpieces by nine major Victorian and Romantic poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Arnold, Browning, Tennyson, and Swinburne. Professor Kauvar and Sorensen have carefully selected the tests of these nine verse dramas, most of which were stage failures during their authors' lifetimes, and have provided a critical introduction to each. Contains: The Borderers, Remorse, Manfred, The Cenci, Otho the Great, Empedocles on Etna, King Victor and King Charles, Becket, and Atlanta in Calydon.