Brimming with the fascinating eccentricities of a complex andconfusing movement whose influences continue to resonate deeply,30 Great Myths About the Romantics adds great clarity towhat we know - or think we know - about one ofthe most important periods in literary history.* Explores the various misconceptions commonly associated withRomanticism, offering provocative insights that correct and clarifyseveral of the commonly-held myths about the key figures of thisera* Corrects some of the biases and beliefs about the Romanticsthat have crept into the 21st-century zeitgeist - for examplethat they were a bunch of drug-addled atheists who believed in freelove; that Blake was a madman; and that Wordsworth slept with hissister* Celebrates several of the mythic objects, characters, and ideasthat have passed down from the Romantics into contemporary culture- from Blake's Jerusalem and Keats'sOde on a Grecian Urn to the literary genre of thevampire* Engagingly written to provide readers with a fun yet scholarlyintroduction to Romanticism and key writers of the period, applyingthe most up-to-date scholarship to the series of myths thatcontinue to shape our appreciation of their work