The Making of the Poets
Byron and Shelley in Their Time
Written by Ian Gilmour
- Category: Biography & Autobiography
- Format: Trade Paperback
- On Sale: March 10, 2003
- Price: $
- ISBN: 978-0-7126-6767-8 (0-7126-6767-9)
ABOUT THIS BOOK
A highly enjoyable joint biography of the early lives of the Romantic poets, Byron and Shelley.
Both Byron and Shelley died young. This book concentrates on the two poets in their youth, telling their stories in tandem. Their formative years were packed with incident and had a decisive influence on their later lives. As an historian, Gilmour provides a colourful account of the political, social and economic background to their writings -- the stormy age of the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars and the post-Napoleon reaction.
