Poets & Their Inner Demons – Dead Before 30: Poems by poets all linked by suffering similar issues

Written by John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Wilfred Owen and 12 more

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe and Gideon Wagner

The stereotypical image of a poet is one of unknown talent starving in a garret and who’s faithfulness and legacy to the art is discovered only after their death.

In some cases this is undoubtedly true, but Poets being human and with the same building blocks of physical and mental health as the rest of us, also had the same afflictions and problems as the rest of us.

The long roll call of names and the truncated legacies that were left behind is filled with these lost talents.

In this volume we bring together those writers of verse and poetry who sadly died so young that their works may be small in number but glint with such brave, revealing and inventive verse that one can only imagine what heights poetry with their full lives could have been taken to.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Jun 25, 2025
• ISBN: 9781836827368

John Keats

Born in London in 1795, John Keats is one of the most popular of the Romantic poets of the 19th century. During his short life his work failed to achieve literary acclaim, but after his death in 1821 his literary reputation steadily gained pace, inspiring many subsequent poets and students alike.