The Stress of Her Regard
From kwharrison13.com · Anti-library
The Stress of Her Regard
| Author | Tim Powers |
|---|---|
| Published | 1989 |
| Pages | 400 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Powers takes the biographies of Byron, Shelley and Keats and finds a supernatural mechanism hiding inside the documented facts — the deaths, the travels, the poems all left intact and re-explained. A secret-history technique that treats the historical record as a constraint to be satisfied rather than a backdrop. |
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @moseskagan — an answer when he asked “What historical fiction should I read next? (Bonus points for something involving building or trade, rather than violence)” in his thread, April 2025. The full list of answers is on What historical fiction should I… (tweet).
Connections
- Republic of Letters — the Romantic poets as a working literary network.
- Historical Fiction — the genre the thread was asking about.
- What historical fiction should I… (tweet) — the thread this recommendation came from.
What links here
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