Bracing and essential a radical reframing of British Romanticism through the lens of Black experience for fans of David Olusoga Gretchen Gerzina Saidiya Hartman and Emma DabirWordsworth Shelley Byron Keats the Romantic poets are titans of English literature taught and celebrated around the world. Their work is associated with sublime passions violent stormscapes and a questing search for the inner self. It is rarely associated with the racial politics of the transatlantic slave economy.But these literary icons lived through a period when individual and collective resistance by Black people in Britain and her overseas colonies was making it increasingly difficult and increasingly costly to ignore their demands for freedom.