The English Romantics

About the Book

Not normally would one think of poets as political agitators. However the best of them were, are, but usually just in their early careers. The English Romantic Poets who died young, such as Shelley and Byron will always be remembered as great poets who wrote line after line of how things ought to be; they were dreamers who dreamed of a better political state. The ones such as Wordsworth and Southey who lived on through their middle years, did not continue to hold the revolutionary views of their youth. This volume concerns itself not so much with their poetry as it does with the lives of the early 19th century literary giants: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Hunt, Keats, Southey and Byron.

Just flip through the index and see how broadly Mr. Landry deals with his subject; and how he has interrelated the lives and works of these famous poetic men. The historical background and the engraved portraitures are worth the price alone. Just read this book and then try not to bring up, at your next dinner party, the subject of the life, loves and poems of William Wordsworth, or of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, or of Percy Bysshe Shelley, or of Leigh Hunt, or of John Keats, or of Robert Southey, or of Lord Byron.

About the Author

Peter Landry is a graduate of Saint Mary's University (Comm.) and from Dalhousie University of Law. He has carried on a general practice of law in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He has lectured at schools and has run university courses for various professional groups. Mr. Landry is currently a member of the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society and is a past member of the Canadian Bar Association, American Trial Lawyers Association, and the Commonwealth Lawyers Association. Like most lawyers, Mr. Landry has read and written a lot of material over the years in the subjects of law, history and philosophy. Since from almost the very beginning of the World Wide Web, Mr. Landry has had his own personal web page, which has grown into an extensive complex of pages dealing with those subject areas in which he has an interest. His website is www.blupete.com. Mr. Landry's site has proven to be very popular, especially to those with interest in the subjects of law, history and philosophy.