Wildly Romantic: The English Romantic Poets: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous

By Catherine M. Andronik

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. Wildly Romantic is a smart, sexy, and fascinating look at these original bad boys-- and girls.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805077839
• ISBN13: 9780805077834
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12