"Young Romantics" tells the story of the interlinked lives of
the young English Romantic poets from an entirely fresh
perspective--celebrating their extreme youth and outsize yearning
for friendship as well as their individuality and political
radicalism. The book 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 fascinating 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. "In firm, clear,
often elegant prose, Daisy Hay] narrates the main events in the
lives of her subjects from 1813, when they began to coalesce around
Hunt in London, till 1822" (Ben Downing, "The New York Times Book
Review").
"Young Romantics" is an enthralling tale of love, betrayal,
sacrifice, and friendship played out against a backdrop of
political turbulence and intense literary creativity. "Hay's
account of the passionate and messy lives of her Romantics is
vivid, picturesque, and finely told" (Richard Eder, "The Boston
Globe").
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