Young Romantics The Tangled Lives of English Poetry's Greatest Generation

Name: Young Romantics The Tangled Lives of English Poetry's Greatest Generation
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ISBN: 9780374123758

ISBN-10: 0374123756

ISBN-13: 9780374123758

Edition: 2010

Authors: Daisy Hay

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Young Romanticstells the story of the interlinked lives of the young English Romantic poets from an entirely fresh perspectivecelebrating their extreme youth and outsize yearning for friendship as well as their individuality and political radicalism. The book focuses on the network of writers and readers who gathered around Percy Bysshe Shelley and the campaigning journalist Leigh Hunt. They included Lord Byron, John Keats, and Mary Shelley, as well as a host of fascinating lesser-known figures: Mary Shelley's stepsister and Byron's mistress, Claire Clairmont; Hunt's botanist sister-in-law, Elizabeth Kent; the musician Vincent Novello; the painters Benjamin Haydon and Joseph Severn; and…

Book details

List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 4/27/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Daisy Hay is currently studying for her PhD at New Hall, Cambridge.ï¿½ This is her first book