Young Romantics

“[An] eminently readable account of the interconnected lives of Leigh Hunt, Percy and Mary Shelley, Mary’s stepsister Claire Clairmont, Lord Byron and Keats.” — Independent Young Romantics tells the story of the interlinked lives of the young English Romantic poets from an entirely fresh perspective—celebrating their extreme youth and outsize yearning for friendship as well as their individuality and political radicalism. The book focuses on the network of writers and readers who gathered around