I honestly did not expect such unfamiliarity with a key cultural moment of the anglo world. I mean, Romanticism is what gave us Byron, Blake, Keats, Wordsworth,

I honestly did not expect such unfamiliarity with a key cultural moment of the anglo world. I mean, Romanticism is what gave us Byron, Blake, Keats, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley (and his wife Mary's "Frankenstein"), the Brontes... This stuff is taught not just in all UK schools, but in pretty much any self-respecting high-school in Western Europe, so I expected I could just remind folks of it. Clearly not.