Romantic poetry
Nature-focused verse movement
Romantic poetry is verse from the late 18th and early 19th centuries that emphasized emotion, imagination, and nature over the rationalism of earlier periods.
The movement produced poets like Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats in England.
Romantic poetry celebrated individual feeling, the sublime in nature, and the creative power of the imagination: We read the Romantic poets in my literature course.
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
- sublimeAwe-inspiring greatness
- lyricismExpressive, melodic quality
- loveIntense fond attachment
- ancient ruinsDecayed structures from antiquity
pantheism · emotional · nature imagery · literature · verse · Coleridge · Lake District · Wordsworth · the sublime · melancholy · wandering · nostalgia · mysticism · starry night · sonnet · muse · yearning · unrequited love
- English LiteratureShakespeare, Dickens, Jane Austen, Bronte, Chaucer
- English StudiesEnglish literature, British literature, American literature, literary theory, literary history
- British StudiesBritish history, British literature, English literature, British drama, British folklore
- German poetryGoethe, Rilke, George, Claudius, lieder
- historical verseballad, ode, sonnet, elegy, hymn
- Romantic EraBeethoven symphonies, gothic fiction, Swan Lake, Nutcracker, Frankenstein
Romantic poetryneoclassicism
Movement emulating antiquity's forms
classical poetry · Victorian poetry · metaphysical poetry · formalism · New Criticism
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