Daisy Hay
Autor de Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives
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Daisy Hay is the author of Young Romantics: The Tangled Lives of English Poetry's Greatest Generation. She has a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Cambridge and an M.A. in Romantic and sentimental literature from the University of York. She is a lectured and archival studies at the mostrar más university of Exeter. mostrar menos
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- 20th Century
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- female
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- UK
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- university teacher (eighteenth century literature)
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- Murray Edwards College, Cambridge (as New Hall College|bye-fellow)
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Leigh Hunt is now largely forgotten. Of all the writers involved in the Romantic period described in this book he was the most long-lived, born in 1784 and died in August 1859. Although he was a poet, writer and essayist in his own right, as much work went into his publishing business. He was the central figure in the ‘Hunt Circle’ which included great writers such as Charles Lamb, Shelley, William Hazlitt, Benjamin Haydon, Keats and many others.
The book follows a group of writers and their friends as they settle in Italy, and most attention is given to Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron and Claire Claremont. There are also very interesting appearances of other poets and writers of the period, of course, John Keats, but also for example, Thomas Love Peacock.
A very interesting book to introduce the Romantic writers.… (más)