The making of the poets
Subtitle: Byron and Shelley in their time
By: Ian Gilmour.
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
Subjects: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Childhood and youth.; Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 -- Childhood and youth.; Poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Byron and Shelley both died young. By the time Byron left Harrow, almost half his life was over; and when Shelley left Eton, three-fifths of his life were gone. Ian Gilmour's book concentrates on the poets in their childhood and youth, and tells their parallel stories. Their traumatic formative years had a decisive influence on both their later lives." "In this book, Gilmour provides an account of the political, social and economic background to their writings. Byron and Shelley lived in the turbulent age of the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars and the post-Waterloo reaction, an era that shaped many of their ideas and works. They became close friends and kindred spirits, and, as the author demonstrates, had far more in common than is usually recognised."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 340-384) and index.