Wildly Romantic: The English Romantic Poets: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous
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Meet the rebellious young poets who brought about a literary revolution
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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 Romanticis a smart, sexy, and fascinating look at these original bad boys—and girls.
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