The Glorious Romantics

This film presents the story of the triumvirate of British friends and poets Byron, Shelley, and Keats. The three men were major literary figures of the Romantic Movement of the early 19th century. British actress Jean Marsh hosts a group of actors who play the three poets, as well as other people of the era. There are selected readings from the works of the authors, and dramatizations of their lives and the tumultuous times in which they lived and wrote.