Who are your favourite poets everybody?

I'll have to look at Byron's works then, sounds compelling- scandal always adds to a poet's work! It can be quite hard to find good translations for some poetry, which is unfortunate.
I'm going to do English Lit at A-level, but I want to be a barrister when I'm older!

Ah, French poetry is something I'd love to read in the future. Though I have never learned French well, and I never learned any other language at all. Haha, good luck with all the barristering when you're older!

I've found Lord Byron to be a kind of gateway drug into the Napoleonic era. After reading his biography I suddenly found myself landed with a number of historically interesting people to look up—Castlereagh, Napoleon, Wellington, De Quincy, Shelly, Wordsworth, Southey to name but a few.




Lord Byron is my great favorite. I actually have a second edition 1814 copy of Childe Harold along with a number of his great works such as Don Juan and a later edition of Hours of Idleness. He has also written a number awfully good non-narrative poems such as Son of the Sleepless, She Walks in Beauty, My Soul is Dark, etc. One of the chief reasons I find him so compelling is that he lived one of the most scandalous lives anyone could ever live—which is why his biography makes a very interesting read!

I haven't had the chance to venture outside of England/Scotland when it comes to poetry, unfortunately. I'll get there eventually and I'll be sure to check out Rumi and Havfiz. Nope, I'm sadly an accounting and finance student. Are you studying/intending to study English Lit?

You should also perhaps look into the radical essayist Hazlitt from this period, I remember discovering him when I was younger and enjoying his style of writing

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I'll look into this fellow you speak of as I do enjoy reading essays, especially ones written long ago.