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Young romantics : the tangled lives of English poetry's greatest generation / Daisy Hay.

by Hay, Daisy, 1981-

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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.

Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859.

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.

Keats, John, 1795-1821.

Poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography.

English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism.

Romanticism -- Great Britain.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1011/2009045650-b.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1011/2009045650-d.html

9780374123758 (hc : alk. paper)

xix, 364 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.

1st American ed.

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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