The domestication of genius : biography and the romantic poet / [electronic resource] Julian North. North, Julian. English prose literature 19th century History and criticism. Poets, English 19th century Biography History and criticism. Romanticism Great Britain. Literature and society Great Britain History 19th century. Biography as a literary form. PR756.B56 828.80809 22 Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record. Focusing on the lives of Byron, Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Landon, North explores how biographies by writers including Thomas Moore, Mary Shelley Thomas De Quincey, both perpetuated and, by revealing private weaknesses and domestic failures, challenged the myth of 'the Romantic poet'. Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2009. c2009. 2009 Text 1 online resource (x, 253 p.) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199571987.001.0001 eng Great Britain. Great Britain