Selections From Byron, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats and Browning

Henry Milner Rideout was a writer whose work you might recognize from The Spinners' Book of Fiction. He explored various fictional themes in his writing.

John Keats was the latest born of the great Romantic poets. Along with Byron and Shelley, he was one of the key figures in the second generation of the movement, despite publishing his work over only a four year period. During his short life, his work was not well received by critics, but his posthumous influence on poets such as Alfred Tennyson and Wilfred Owen was significant. The poetry of Keats was characterised by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of odes which remain among the mo...