Dan Snow

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Are they calling themselves the romantics, these poems?

Are they young men out there writing romantic poetry?

And roughly speaking, what does that involve?

I always associate it with going on long walks through wild landscapes, somehow breaking free of the moral strictures of society and getting back to an earthier, more sexual, more real sort of self.

Is that roughly speaking?

He had an affair, didn't he, with Lady Caroline Lamb, who was married to the man who would become the Prime Minister of Viscount Melbourne.

But she's rather remarkable.

She's an author, and obviously she had an affair with the Duke of Wellington, which is cool, and her brother was badly injured at the Battle of Waterloo.

Anyway, so she's got an interesting family, an interesting career.

She writes novels.

Is it true she comes up with that unbelievably famous quote about Byron?

Oh, but Kate, we were young once.

Don't you remember those five months?

They were some of the best.

No way.

Well, that's the Ponsonby family for you.

I mean, honestly, the only thing you can do with those people is wind them up and fire them in the direction of the French, to be honest.

So poor her.

In a different era, she'd have been there with her brother on the cavalry charges.