30 Great Myths about the Romantics

Brimming with the fascinating eccentricities of a complex andconfusing movement whose influences continue to resonate deeply,30 Great Myths About the Romantics adds great clarity towhat we know or think we know about one ofthe most important periods in literary history. * Explores the various misconceptions commonly associated withRomanticism, offering provocative insights that correct and clarifyseveral of the commonly-held myths about the key figures of thisera * Corrects some of the biases and beliefs about the Romanticsthat have crept into the 21st-century zeitgeist for examplethat they were a bunch of drug-addled atheists who believed in freelove; that Blake was a madman; and that Wordsworth slept with hissister * Celebrates several of the mythic objects, characters, and ideasthat have passed down from the Romantics into contemporary culture from Blake s Jerusalem and Keats sOde on a Grecian Urn to the literary genre of thevampire * Engagingly written to provide readers with a fun yet scholarlyintroduction to Romanticism and key writers of the period, applyingthe most up-to-date scholarship to the series of myths thatcontinue to shape our appreciation of their work