A reassessment of the cigar-smoking, cross-dressing, best-selling novelist - and Chopin's lover - who scandalised French society and has, argues Sampson, been underestimated ever since.
The poet walks ten landscapes that were significant for the Romantics - Shelley, Barrett Browning, Constable, Wordsworth and others - from Kent to Scotland: a mix of memoir, reverie, and ref... read more