The Thorns of Life — Philippa Ballantine

From the author of Geist, and Kindred and Wings, and the co-author of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, comes a short story of clones, rebellion and poets.

A company decides to clone the first famous figures from the past, and they settle on the trio of Romantic Poets, Shelley, Byron and Keats. After all, how much trouble can a few poets cause?

But the insipid Victorian view of the men has led the corporation astray, and they may live to regret their choice.