• remorse Remorse is by no means an unalloyed virtue in Enlightenment usage, as Johnson's definition
    of it makes clear. Contemporary literary usage had, indeed, suggested that this was
    a tragic passion. Coleridge's Remorse, which was produced in 1813, represents the
    passion as a static rankling, and Byron, who had a hand in bringing that tragedy to
    the stage at Drury Lane, recasts its essential situation into the unavailing grief
    of Manfred.