Making of the poets: Byron and shelley and his time.

Byron and Shelley both died young. By th time Byron left Harrow, almost half his life was over; and when Shelley left Eton, three-fifths of his lifewere gone. Ian Gilmour´s highly original book concentrates on the poets in their childhood and youth, and tells their parallel stories. Their traumatic formative years had a decisive influenc on both their later lives.