On my Twitter feed, I follow the Romanticism blog, which shares quotes and poems from the great Keats, Byron, Wordsworth, Blake, and all the others.
This morning, I have a few quotes for you:
Lord Byron: "All men are intrinsical rascals and I am only sorry that not being a dog I can't bite them." Knowing Byron, he was most likely talking about himself here.
Keatsy: "Does Shelley go on telling strange Stories of the Death of Kings? Tell him there are strange Stories of the death of Poets." Sound familiar? You should recognize the Shelley poem regarding the "king of kings" and the ironic end to his immortality. And wait, would this inspire Shelley to write an elegy upon the death of a young Romantic poet, a young "Adonais"?
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