Meet the rebellious young poets who brought about a literary revolution. Rock 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 Romantics: 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.
Related: Biography - Autobiography- Memoir, England (UK), Europe, Young Adult (ages 14-18)
- ISBN: 9780805077834
- Author: Andronik, Catherine M.
- Published: 2007, Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
- Themes: 19th Century, Poets, Revolution
- Descriptors: Biography - Autobiography- Memoir, England (UK), Europe, Young Adult (ages 14-18)
- No. of pages: 272