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Wildly Romantic: The English Romantic Poets: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous

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Illustrations:
Portraits of each poet contained in this resource are printed in black and white accompanying each biographical sketch. Occasionally, there is an image of a large, gray plume, presumably from a pen, filling a page between chapters.

Layout of type:
This is a single column layout. The font is simple and well spaced for easy reading. The poems are titled with a contrasting font in all capital letters. The index uses italics to denote pages that have illustrations of the indexed subject.

Chapters:
Introduction
Wordsworth
Esteesi
Lyrical balladeers
A life in ruins
Baby Byron
Young Shelley
Mary Godwin
Byronic entanglements
Byron and Shelley and the girls
Keats
Dead babies
Dead poets
Lives touched
End of an era
Chapter notes
Sources
For further reading and viewing
Index of poems
Index

Features:
The biographies of some of the romance poets are contained in this book, but there is an abundance of additional information about the time period and the relationships of the poets presented. There are two indexes; one of the poems, and one organized alphabetically by subjects.

Assessment:
This is a dependable resource that can be read as one might read a novel, straight through, or used as a reference book.