When suffering from mental illness later in life, the poet John Clare often claimed to be this poet, a contemporary of his.
When suffering from mental illness later in life, the poet John Clare often claimed to be this poet, a contemporary of his. Negative reviews of this poet's first book, Hours of Idleness, prompted him to write the satire "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers." Passion, rebelliousness, arrogance, and intelligence characterize this writer's namesake "hero," exemplified by the protagonist of this author's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Another example is the sexual virtuoso hero of this poet's Don Juan [JOO-uhn]. FTP what club-footed Romantic poet wrote "She Walks in Beauty" and was once described as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know"?
When suffering from mental illness later in life, the poet John Clare often claimed to be this poet, a contemporary of his.
Lord Byron (or George Gordon)