translate English to French: The major "Second generation" Romantic Poets were Lord Byron , Percy Bysse Shelley and John Keats .
One of his masters in thinking was the eminent scholar Ernest Renan (1823-1892), an intellectual influence of the first importance on educated Frenchmen of his day. Both Renan and Anatole France were convinced that absolute truth was forever beyond human reach and that consequently all questions should be regarded from many sides.