Young romantics : the Shelleys, Byron and other tangled lives
Daisy Hay
Bok · Engelsk · 2011 · Biografisk
| Omfang | 364 s. : ill.
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| Opplysninger | The author shatters the myth of the Romantic poet as a solitary, introspective genius, telling the story of the communal existence of an astonishingly youthful circle. The fiery, generous spirit of Leigh Hunt, radical journalist and editor of The Examiner, took centre stage. He bound together the restless Shelley and his brilliant wife Mary, author of Frankenstein; Mary's feisty step-sister Claire Clairmont, who became Byron's lover and the mother of his child; and Hunt's charismatic sister-in-law Elizabeth Kent. The history of the group, from its inception in Leigh Hunt's prison cell in 1813 to its ultimate disintegration in the years following 1822; tales of love, betrayal, sacrifice and friendship, all of which were played out against a background of political turbulence and intense literary creativity. This smouldering turmoil of strained relationships and insular friendships would ferment to inspire the drama of Frankenstein, the heady idealism of Shelley's poetry, and Byron's own self-loathing, self-loving public persona.
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| Emner | Byron, George Gordon , 1788-1824
Hunt, Leigh , 1784-1859 Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft , 1797-1851 Shelley, Percy Bysshe , 1792-1822 Vis mer... |
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| ISBN | 978-1-4088-0972-3
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| Hylleplass | 820.9 H
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