Wildly romantic : the English Romantic poets--the mad, the bad, and the dangerous

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Title:

Wildly romantic : the English Romantic poets--the mad, the bad, and the dangerous

Author:

Andronik, Catherine M.

Personal Author:

Andronik, Catherine M.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

New York : Henry Holt and Co., [2007]

Physical Description:

264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary:

"In the early 1800s, poetry could land a person in jail. Those who tried to change the world through their poems risked notoriety, or courted it. Among the most subversive were a group of young writers known as the Romantics: Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth and John Keats. These rebels believed poetry should express strong feelings in ordinary language. And they were barely out of their teens when their words changed literature forever."--Dust jacket.

Language:

English

Reading Level:

1070 Lexile.

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader AR UG 8.0 9.0 114841.

Reading Counts RC High School 9.4 11 Quiz: 40945 Guided reading level: NR.

Subject Term:

Poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

Romanticism -- Great Britain -- Juvenile literature.

Poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography. -- Juvenile literature.

Romanticism -- Great Britain. -- Juvenile literature.