Young romantics : the Shelleys, Byron and other tangled lives / Daisy Hay.

London : Bloomsbury, 2010.

xix, 364 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), map, ports. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Leigh Hunt takes centre stage in a circle that was to include Shelley and his wife Mary, Mary's half sister Claire Clairmont and Hunt's sister-in-law Elizabeth. Daisy Hay tells the story of the scandal and tragedy, gossip and poetry of the turbulent communal existence of of this youthful group between 1814 and 1824.

9780747586272 (hbk)

821.809
A821.809HAY

English

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