Clouds of Glory (1978)

Directed by

Ken Russell

Genre

drama

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 2 episodes

Rated

12

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Ken Russell directed two documentaries about the Romantic poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The first focuses on Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy. The second adapts Coleridge's famous poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

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What happens

Clouds of Glory is a 1978 British television series of documentaries directed by Ken Russell. It was co-written by Melvyn Bragg. It was Russell and Bragg's fifth collaboration on a biographical work. Two episodes were produced, William and Dorothy (on William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy) and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (on Samuel Taylor Coleridge). The Los Angeles Times called it "flat out brilliant". A third planned episode, King of the Crocodiles (on Robert Southey) was cancelled for financial reasons. Filming locations included Derwentwater, Thirlmere, Troutbeck, and Borrowdale, and a cottage in Stonethwaite was used to represent the Wordsworths' home, Dove Cottage. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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