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Culture: Rhyme and reason for romantics; Actor Linus Roache talks to Mike Davies about the volatile relationship between 19th century poets Coleridge and Wordsworth.

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20011001
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Byline: Mike Davies

Listen. Hear that rumbling? That's the sound of literary critics responding to Julien Temple's Pandaemonium, a fictionalised account of the volatile friendship between revolutionary 19th century Romantic poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth.

Temple nails his colours firmly to the mast as a Coleridge man, which is why the Wordsworth Society is probably busy as you read this penning vitriolic hate mail about their idol's portrayal as a weak, untalented leech who rode on his friend's coat tails and then turned government agent and betrayed ...

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