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Young Romantics - The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives (Paperback)
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Young Romantics - The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives (Paperback)
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'A most impressive achievement' Michael Holroyd 'Enthralling'
Sunday Times 'Masterly' Telegraph _______________________ 'The web
of our Life is of mingled Yarn' - John Keats In Young Romantics
Daisy Hay shatters the myth of the Romantic poet as a solitary,
introspective genius, telling the story of the communal existence
of an astonishingly youthful circle. The fiery, generous spirit of
Leigh Hunt, radical journalist and editor of The Examiner, took
centre stage. He bound together the restless Shelley and his
brilliant wife Mary, author of Frankenstein; Mary's feisty
step-sister Claire Clairmont, who became Byron's lover and the
mother of his child; and Hunt's charismatic sister-in-law Elizabeth
Kent. With authority, sparkling prose and constant insight Daisy
Hay describes their travels in France, Switzerland and Italy, their
artistic triumphs, their headstrong ways, their grievous losses and
their devastating tragedies. Young Romantics explores the history
of the group, from its inception in Leigh Hunt's prison cell in
1813 to its ultimate disintegration in the years following 1822. It
encompasses tales of love, betrayal, sacrifice and friendship, all
of which were played out against a background of political
turbulence and intense literary creativity. This smouldering
turmoil of strained relationships and insular friendships would
ferment to inspire the drama of Frankenstein, the heady idealism of
Shelley's poetry, and Byron's own self-loathing, self-loving public
persona. Above all the characters are rendered on the page with
marvellous vitality, and this is a gloriously entrancing and
revelatory read, the debut of a young biographer of the highest
calibre and enormous promise.
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