Title: The domestication of genius
Description: Focusing on the lives of Byron, Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Landon, North explores how biographies by writers including Thomas Moore, Mary Shelley Thomas De Quincey, both perpetuated and, by revealing private weaknesses and domestic failures, challenged the myth of 'the Romantic poet'.
Subjects: English prose literature, Literature and society, History and criticism, Romanticism, Biography as a literary form, English Poets, Biography, History, English prose literature, history and criticism, Poets, biography, Romanticism, great britain, Authors, english
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 19th century