World changing events in the late 18th century – from the French Revolution via American Independence – instigated a new movement in the art, literature and thinking of Britain: The Romantics.

This three-part series, written and presented by Peter Ackroyd, concentrates upon the influence of creatives such as:

William Blake
Blake’s radical views and individual artistic style were overlooked during his lifetime but his work is now much admired and seen as vehement criticism of industrialisation.

Lord Byron
Bawdy and brash, but was Byron all talk and no poetry?

John Clare
The Peasant Poet, an undeclared voice of the people?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A great thinker who struggled with his personal demons.

John Keats
He died tragically young but his poetry lives on.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
A radical who caused scandal with his views.

William Wordsworth
He helped create a movement with a new poetic voice.

Ackroyd says: “The Romantics are important because they helped to define, and indeed to create, the modern world. They helped to fashion the way in which we all now think and imagine.”

Peter Ackroyd is the author of the best selling book London: The Biography. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature’s William Heinemann Award (jointly), and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He is also the holder of a CBE for services to literature.

After obtaining a double first from Cambridge and a period in America as Mellon Fellow at Yale, he turned to journalism and writing. His first biography was about Ezra Pound and his first novel about Oscar Wilde, for which he won the Somerset Maugham Award. He went on to write biographies of T.S.Eliot, Dickens, Blake and Thomas More. He’s also written short books on Chaucer and Turner.

Peter’s historical fiction includes Hawksmoor which won the Guardian Fiction Prize and Chatterton, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His most recent novels are The Clerkenwell Tales and The Lambs of London.

He has written and presented two television series for the BBC – Dickens in 2002 and London in 2004. The Romantics is Peter’s latest television work, which he has written and also presents.

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