Young Romantics: The Tangled Lives of English Poetry's Greatest Generation
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781429946087 (1429946083)
Publish date: April 27th 2010
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
Writing,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Books About Books,
19th Century,
Biography Memoir,
Poetry
Incest! Suicide! Adultery! Child Abandonment! Ménage à trois! Revolution! Free love! Atheism! Vegetarianism! Counter-culture! So, an account of the 1960s? Try 1810s. As the subtitle proclaims, this is about "the Shelleys, Byron, and other tangled lives"--including Keats: "a story of exceptional men ...