The Romantics: everything you wanted to know
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The Unconventional Approach to Things Like Marriage and Love and Art
Shelley and Mary Godwin had illegitimate children. They lived as an unmarried couple in a highly unconventional household. Clare writes about the kind of pain occasioned by these experiments in living. But they are an attempt to live out the kind of philosophy of the poetry, but philosophy and real life can be pretty difficult bedfellows.
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