Works discussed include Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Fugitive Pieces / Hours of Idleness, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, and Don Juan.
For another taste of Romantic poetry, try our episode on Poetry and Ruins, which includes a look at Shelley’s Ozymandias.
Jacke recounts his own attempts to write a Keatsian poem in the Bad Poetry episode.
Byron makes a cameo appearance – he was on the scene when both Frankenstein and vampires were invented – in our Mary Shelley episode.
Want some of the older Romantics? Try our episode on Coleridge and the Person from Porlock.
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