The Making Of The Poets: Byron And Shelley

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Both Byron & Shelley died young. By the time Byron left Harrow, almost half his life was over; & when Shelley left Eton, three-fifths of his life was gone. Ian Gilmour has concentrated on the two poets in their youth, & has told their stories in tandem. Their formative years were packed with incident & had a decisive influence on the later lives of them both. As an historian, Gilmour provides a colourful account of the political, social & economic background to their writings. Byron & Shelley lived in the stormy age of the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars & the post-Napoleon reaction. They became close friends, & though they are usually thought to have been very different from each other, Gilmour shows that they had much more in common than is usually recognised.