> Yes it kind of boggles the imagination to imagine Keats with a mistress
> studying to be a Barrister at the University of London, Shelley married
> to
> the UK Director of Red Cross' Blood Supply Services, Byron's favorite girl
> friend as Director of Financial Services for the Hudson Bay Company, and
> on
> and on. All that would have given Romantic Poetry and the 19th Century an
> interesting twist - at least a much more layered - and no doubt embattled
> sense of gender, power and relationships.
Yes, but they all did twist the night away with Lord B. out at the Chateau,
no?
> Oh well, still seduced by pure beauty & all of that,
>
> Stephen V
> Blog: http://stephenvincent.durationpress.com
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