Shelley's Complexion

Molly Young rounds up five things you didn't know about the Romantics:

Daisy Hay's new book Young Romantics explores the intertwining lives of Shelley, Byron, Keats and their cohort, detailing "a web of lives, within which friendships fade, allegiances shift, and nothing remains static for very long." In honour of this tremendous work of scholarship, we've plucked five tidbits from the pages of Hay's tome—a few things you might not have known about your favourite poets and thinkers of the 19th century . . .