Sunday Feature: On Napoleon

Series exploring Napoleon's impact on European culture. 3. British Romanticism and Napoleon: Critic and scholar of Romanticism Simon Bainbridge explores how, from the French Revolution to his end on St Helena, Napoleon shaped poetry in Britain, particularly through the Romantics. To early British Romantic writers, like Wordsworth and Coleridge, Napoleon's rise after the French Revolution was a cause for celebration. But soon he seemed to some more of a tyrant than those he had replaced. Simon travels to Paris and Waterloo, tracing the footsteps of the literary pilgrims and the decriers to explore their love-hate relationship with Napoleon and his legacy in British literature