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- Romanticism: 100 Poems
- Romanticism: 100 Poems
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction
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- Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788–1857; German)
- George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788–1824; English/Scottish)
- Susan Evance (1788?–? English)
- Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869; French)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822; English)
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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822; English)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2021
- Romanticism: 100 Poems
- Romanticism: 100 Poems
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788–1857; German)
- George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788–1824; English/Scottish)
- Susan Evance (1788?–? English)
- Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869; French)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822; English)
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Part
Summary
For a long time Shelley and Byron, and to a lesser extent Keats, more or less defined what it meant to be a (male) “Romantic Poet”: radical, impulsive, bohemian, idealistic, world-weary, and young. Though less well-known than his friend Byron, his atheist views (which led to his expulsion from Oxford University), his wife’s death by suicide, his elopement with Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, and his drowning in the Gulf of La Spezia in a boat called Don Juan, were all notorious. Even those who disapproved of his opinions and way of life, such as Wordsworth, acknowledged his mastery of every kind of poetry.
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- Romanticism: 100 Poems , pp. 85 - 94Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021