Young romantics : the tangled lives of English poetry's greatest generation / Daisy Hay.
2010
PR590 .H297 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
Young romantics : the tangled lives of English poetry's greatest generation / Daisy Hay.
Author
Hay, Daisy, 1981-
Edition
1st American ed.
ISBN
9780374123758 (alk. paper)
0374123756 (alk. paper)
0374123756 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
Language
English
Description
xix, 364 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PR590 .H297 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
821/.809
Summary
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 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 writers such as Charles and Mary Lamb, Thomas Love Peacock, and William Hazlitt. They were characterized by talent, idealism, and youthful ardor, and these qualities shaped and informed their politically oppositional stances--as did their chaotic family arrangements, which often left the young women, despite their talents, facing the consequences of the men's philosophies.
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"Originally published in 2010 by Bloomsbury Publishing, Great Britain, as Young Romantics: the Shelleys, Byron and other tangled lives."
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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