<p>PerkinsΒ DavidΒ : <br></p> <p>David Perkins is John P. Marquand Professor of English Literature, Harvard University.</p>
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John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley belong to the second generation of Romantic poets. The Romantics focused on themselves and nature, as opposed to society and universal and general ideas. These two greats helped define and shape the movement.
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 r