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The romantic poets as soap opera stars; Byron, Keats, Shelley, and their loves come alive in this well-crafted novel.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)(Book Review)

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From: The Christian Science Monitor
Date: 20051122
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Byline: Yvonne Zipp

The Romantic poets - Lord Byron, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley - bear more than a passing resemblance to modern celebrities (and not just due to some scandalous behavior): Every aspect of their lives has been so picked over that writing about them can seem as stale as a month-old Enquirer.

British writer Jude Morgan overcomes this difficulty handily in his absorbing new book, Passion: A Novel of the Romantic Poets.

Instead of the head-on approach, Morgan instead explores the lives of four of the women who loved the poets (Byron, of course, ...

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