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If you ever get a chance, read about the lives of Byron, Keats, and Shelley. All were immensely talented yet died young in “romantic” circumstances: Byron at 3
by keiferski 6y ago
If you ever get a chance, read about the lives of Byron, Keats, and Shelley.
All were immensely talented yet died young in “romantic” circumstances: Byron at 36 from disease during The Greek War of Independence; Keats at 25 in Rome from tuberculosis; and Shelley at 29 by drowning off the coast of Italy. All of this happened between 1821 and 1824.
- lordgrenville 6y agoThe Sorrows of Young Werther made suicide trendy among that generation (difficult as that is to believe). Not that these poets directly killed themselves, but there was definitely an appeal to living dangerously and not taking care of yourself. Somewhat like the "27 club" among musicians.
- cafard 6y agoAnd Goethe lived to 73, not unusually old for a poet. It's a bit like Peter Townsend writing "My Generation" with "Hope I die before I get old", then turning up age 60 or so to play the Super Bowl halftime show.