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The Romantics: everything you wanted to know

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Who were the Romantics? And how did they shake up society and culture at the turn of the 19th century? Speaking to Ellie Cawthorne, Daisy Hay answers your top questions on the rebellious literary movement whose members’ lives were as unconventional as their art, touching on the intense but difficult collaboration between Wordsworth and Coleridge, the outrageous reputation of Lord Byron, and the literary significance of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. (Ad) Daisy Hay is the author of Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives (Bloomsbury, 2011). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Young-Romantics-Shelleys-Byron-Tangled/dp/1408809729/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.

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1:05.0

Welcome to the History Extra podcast.

1:11.8

Fascinating historical conversations from BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed.

1:27.6

Who were the Romantics? And how did they shake up society and culture at the turn of the 19th century?

1:33.7

On today's Everything You Wanted to Know episode, we're tackling a rebellious literary movement whose members' lives were as unconventional as their art.

1:38.1

To tell us more about the Romantics, I spoke to Daisy Hay,

1:42.2

Professor of English Literature at the University of Exeter,

1:45.6

and the author of Young Romantics, The Shelley's, Byron and Other Tangled Lives.

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