romantic poet

A romantic poet is a poet associated with Romanticism, the late 18th- and early 19th-century literary movement emphasizing emotion, nature, individualism, and imagination over classical restraint.

The major English Romantic poets include Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.

Lowercase, a romantic poet writes verse about love or passion: He fancied himself a romantic poet, leaving sonnets on her doorstep.