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The author comments on the poetry of several poets including William Blake, William Wordsworth and Rober Burns from the Romantic and Post-Romantic period. Topics discussed include contribution of Romantic poetry to preserve close relations with many different musical resources, Blake's works based on visual resources, and Wordsworth's revolutionary approach to poetic language.

The article discusses the use of Italic typography and the later sonnets of William Wordsworth as visual poetry. It explores Wordsworth's some 535 sonnets, which became the principal form of utterance in the later phase of his career, as noted by Lee M. Johnson. It notes William H. Galperin's suggestion that Wordsworth breaks new poetic ground in the later sonnets by means of a certain revision of his own earlier work. It also illustrates Wordsworth's affair with the sonnet which turned serious when Dorothy Wordsworth read him Milton's sonnets in 1802 that lasted for the rest of his career, ultimately resulting in the transformation of the small form into great proportions.

Presents the visual poem "The Pronoun-Vowel Reparations Song," by Thomas Sayers Ellis.

The article profiles illustrator Gabriel Pacheco of Mexico, providing information on his personal life and education, his works that travel between different realities that reflect his philosophical approach toward visual poetry, and his literary influences.