The book provides a thorough chronicle and analysis of centuries-old theatrical contacts between two cities – Osijek and Pécs – which historically shared the cultural space of the Pannonian Plain, especially during the period of the Habsburg Monarchy.
In her preface Mrs. Moorman modestly claims that she has not learned "many new facts about Wordsworth," but she certainly enriches the outline of his early years.
Žmegač does not only talk about the visual arts, but about the "spirit" of the era that permeates literature: sensuality, the moment, subjectivity, decorativeness, eroticism, decadence, but also the crisis of identity in the fin-de-siècle atmosphere.
Zavod za znanost o književnosti Filozofskoga fakulteta, 1997.