"As the ultimate example of the Romantic artist, William Blake made radical developments in art technique to communicate his vision. However visual art was just one facet of his achievement. In his famous illuminated books, Blake combined painting, engraving and poetry, some of which are now the most famous in the English language. However, Blake's visual art can be far more readily appreciated, and pictures such as The ancient of days remain a powerful...

All of life in a single day takes place on the morning of June 16, 1904 in Dublin, Ireland. Leopold Bloom is a tragic figure who walks the streets of Dublin while his wife Molly, commits adultery with barely the regard to try to conceal it. Intermingled is Stephen Dedalus, an English poet who is in the service of the Catholic Church in Ireland. Take a journey into the lives and minds of these three characters in this enthralling story of love, loss,...

John Keats, English poet, was a key advocate of the English Romantic movement during the early nineteenth century. Elaborate word choice and sensual imagery characterize Keats' poetry, including a series of odes, his masterpieces, which remain among the most popular poems in English literature. During his very short life, his work received constant critical attacks from periodicals of the day, but his posthumous influence on poets such as Alfred...

A study of the prominent poets of the Romantic period featuring the works of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats and Byron. Includes interpretation and analysis by Dr. Robert Woof, Dr. Julia North and Derrick Woolf.

Byron charts the rise and fall of an irresistible and devastatingly handsome genius who had it all and threw it all away. It begins as Byron's struggle for acceptance as a poet is reversed by the publication of Childe Harolde's Pilgrimage, which turns him into an overnight success and the toast of London society--the 19th century equivalent of a bad-boy rock star. While disdaining social conventions, he needs money, so marries wealthy pious Annabella...