Wildly Romantic: The English Romantic Poets: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous
- ISBN-10
- 1429989734
- ISBN-13
- 9781429989732
- Category
- Young Adult Nonfiction
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-04-17
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
- Author
- Catherine M. Andronik
Description
Meet the rebellious young poets who brought about a literary revolution Rock stars may think they invented sex, drugs, and rock and roll, but the Romantic poets truly created the mold. In the early 1800s, poetry could land a person in jail. Those who tried to change the world through their poems risked notoriety—or courted it. Among the most subversive were a group of young writers known as the Romantics: Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Cole-ridge, William Wordsworth, and John Keats. These rebels believed poetry should express strong feelings in ordinary language, and their words changed literature forever. Wildly Romantic is a smart, sexy, and fascinating look at these original bad boys—and girls.
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