Question

who is being described in this statement: Within his short lifetime, he produced numerous beautiful lyric poems—all the while living wildly, scattering sparks of genius on political and poetic fronts.

Answer 1

This statement could be describing the one of the major English Romantic poets, Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Shelley lived a short life, having died at the age of twenty-nine years old. Still, he created a wide variety of lyrics poems, and was considered to be the best when it came to poetic form.

Shelley's was very radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views. His political and social thoughts had a large impact on the Chartist and other movements in England, and are still important nowadays.

Answer 2

John Keats , who died at the age of twenty-five, had perhaps the most remarkable career of any English poet. In his own lifetime John Keats would not have been associated with other major Romantic poets,