“Romantic” is one of those words that has traveled so far from its original meaning, and been used in so many different contexts, that by now it seems to mean almost anything. Keats’s Odes and “Roses ...

Young Romantics The Tangled Lives of English Poetry’s Greatest Generation by Daisy Hay Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 384 pp., $27.50 All of us, at some time in our lives, have wanted to be part of a ...