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    Wildly Romantic: The English Romantic Poets: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous

    By Catherine M. Andronik

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    Meet the rebellious young poets who brought about a literary revolution

    Rock stars may think they invented sex, drugs, and rock and roll, but the Romantic poets truly created the mold.

    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 Cole-ridge, William Wordsworth, and John Keats. These rebels believed poetry should express strong feelings in ordinary language, and their words changed literature forever.

    Wildly Romantic is a smart, sexy, and fascinating look at these original bad boys—and girls.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateApr 17, 2007
    ISBN9781429989732
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    Wildly Romantic: The English Romantic Poets: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous
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    Catherine M. Andronik

    Catherine M. Andronik is a high school teacher librarian who specializes in writing children's and young adult biographies. She shares her Connecticut home with a variety of rescue parrots and also enjoys showing her horse in western dressage.

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    • 5/5
      Wild indeed!!!
    • 4/5
      This book, aimed at Young Adults, covers the lives of Romantic Poets (many who knew and were acquainted with each other) who lived in England during the Romantic Period.Even if you don’t really read poetry, you are probably familiar with the names of some of the Romantic poets. William Wordsworth. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Lord Byron. Percy Bysshe Shelley. John Keats. The lives of these poets are focused upon in “Wildly Romantic”. Many of these poets had messy personal lives — drug addicition (mainly to opium), sexual entanglements, children out of wedlock, bouts of poverty. The author does not shy away from covering these issues; not for salacious reasons, but rather to show that these poets were all too human. And yet they managed to write poetry that has stayed with us to this day.How they came up with some of their poetry is also covered in this book. Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” was inspired by this:“Late one evening in early winter, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Dorothy [Wordsworth's sister] had gone for a walk in the hills. They could see the sea below, whitecaps foaming and its color changing from blue through shades of gray as the sun set. Then the moon rose and spread a path of cool light on the dark rippling water. For five months Coleridge wrote and revised, combining his impressions of the ocean with a dream about a ghost ship a neighbor had told him…”Andronik uses humor here and there, which would appeal to YA readers, but also to readers in general. Many of us know that Lord Byron was infamous for his love life. As Andronik puts it:“Byron soon stopped attending meetings of Parliament. There were so many fascinating distractions, primarily female. For most people, a love triangle is a difficult situation to escape gracefully. Byron being Byron, love didn’t come in a triangle. It came in something closer to a pentagram.”Interspersed throughout this book are examples of poems by the Romantic poets. The placement of the poems are in between chapters, rather than embedded among the text. I liked this format.This book would be an excellent, and very readable, introduction to the English Romantic poets. I didn’t realize that it was geared towards Young Adults until after I started reading, but this shouldn’t be considered a problem. I find it interesting that this is an Young Adult book – because, truthfully, how many Young Adults would become aware of this book, even if they like poetry or historical accounts? Perhaps this is why (at the time I wrote this review), even though this book was published in 2007, it hasn’t (as far as I know) yet undergone a paperback run. However, it can still be purchased as a new book in hardback. “Wildly Romantic” has definitely piqued my interest in reading more of the Romantic poetry, even though I gravitate more towards the poetry of today’s era. These Romantic poets were considered revolutionary during their era (mid-1800s).
    • 5/5
      This is the perfect book to get middle- and high-schoolers interested in 18th- and 19th-century poetry. (And let's face it, they're not going to get hooked on it of their own accord.) The scandalous details will reel 'em in and make the poets much more memorable than otherwise.It's long been my opinion that people, especially students, are better off knowing the follies of the heroes of history (like the fact that Ben Franklin was a raging sex fiend, for example) -- not to demonize the aforementioned heroes or demean their accomplishments, but simply to make them more human.
    • 4/5
      It's hard to believe now, but the great poets of the early 19th century were just as reckless and wild as any contemporary celebrity. In fact, there were their era's version of our television and movie stars. People gossiped about their lives as much as they read their poems -- it seems those dead poets weren't stuffy at all!This book tells the stories of this wild bunch: William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, John Keats and others. They were revolutionaries, drug addicts, polygamists, womanizers, advocates of free love; one was even a pyromaniac. I knew of Byron's reputation as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know" but I wasn't aware of the wild side of many of the other poets. It certainly changes the way one looks at classic Romantic poetry!Each chapter is followed by examples of poetry by the poets just discussed, which really helps to bring them alive. Even if you think you aren't interested in Romantic poetry, you will probably be interested in the lives of these wildly romantic guys.
    • 5/5
      Rebellion against the literary conventions of previous generations was their reason for being-- their poetry made them famous; but sex, drugs, and scandal made them superstars of the 19th century English-speaking world.