Recently I wrote about a fragment of Claire Clairmont’s journal being included in Young Romantics: The Tangled Lives of English Poetry’s Greatest Generation. A number of reviews have appeared since the book was published so I’ve decided to include some of them here.

My library doesn’t have the book so I haven’t read it yet. I am going to have to purchase it. I did, however, find Midnight Fires: A Mystery with Mary Wollstonecraft
at my library. I was very surprised about that. I should read it soon although at first glance it looks dull and I’m more into science fiction than I am mysteries. My article about that books is available here.

Anyway, back to Young Romantics.

The review from The Independent asks a number of what if questions and ultimately decides that the book focuses on the connections that led to some of The Romantics most famous writings. I think Young Romantics is going to be best known for including a fragment of Claire Clairmont’s journal written when she was a cranky and bitter old lady.

The Financial Times thinks that The Romantics have been written about extensively and that while nothing new is included here it is an exciting and “well-told tale” and Scotland on Sunday focuses on The Romantics as working together socially rather than as individuals writing in solitude.

I am hoping to purchases the book in the near-ish future and and include my thoughts about it. If any of you have read it, please let me know what you thought of it.

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