num_pages: 272
description: Meet the rebellious young poets who brought about a literary revolutionRock 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 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.
language: English
title: Wildly Romantic: The English Romantic Poets: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous
titlecomplete: Wildly Romantic: The English Romantic Poets: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous
genres: Biography, Romanticism, Poetry, British Literature, Nonfiction, History, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 141
publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)