They spent too much time with things like Scott's The Lay of the Last Minstrel (not what you think and you have a dirty mind!) and Radcliffe's The Italian, or, The Confessional of the Black Penitents -- not to mention Mary Shelley and Jane Austen and Fanny Burney! Of course, Chatterton (the "Marvelous Boy") had all the Romantic trappings, including suicide.