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Literature: Oh for the dreams of Keats and Shelley It was all very different when young turks such as Byron, Keats and Shelley were at the height of their celebrity, writes our Literary Editor, Suzi Feay

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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20030824
Author:Suzi Feay

Poets have always been young men in a hurry, desperately seeking to establish a poetic reputation before being prematurely swept away by death in the form of bizarre boating accidents, duels, battlefield mishaps, bottles of arsenic or one of the traditional picturesque illnesses such as consumption or syphilis.

Even for longer-lived practitioners, precocity is a given. A great poet usually announces himself (or, these days, herself) in their teens or early 20s, with interesting, if not yet wholly distinctive work. John Milton's "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity" was a pretty impressive ...

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