Romantic Feuds

Romantic writers such as Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge aspired to rise above the so-called ''age of personality,'' a new culture of politicized print gossip and personal attacks. Nevertheless, Southey, Coleridge, and other Romantic-era figures such as Leigh Hunt, William Hazlitt, Sydney Owenson, and the explorer John Ross became enmeshed in lively feuds with the major periodicals of ...