The Romantic period was one of major social change in England,
due to depopulation of the countryside and rapid development of overcrowded
industrial cities that took place roughly between 1798 and 1837.
Some scholars claim that it began as early as 1789 with
“Songs of Innocence” by William Blake. In terms of its ending, some believe it
ended with the start of the Victorian Era in 1837, although some say it died
off by 1830. For the purpose of this essay, the accord is that the period began
in 1798 and ended in 1837.
Romanticism was
a legendary movement that highlighted nature and the rank of emotion and creative
liberty. We can say that authors of this age were protesting against the
attempt to explain the world and human nature through science and the POV of
the Industrial Revolution. In Romanticism, emotion is much more powerful than
rational thought.
Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of
poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in
1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English
Romantic movement in literature.
writing
from this period has several of the key characteristics.
Ø Glorification of Nature
Ø Acceptance of Emotions
Ø Creativity and Imagination
Ø Emphasis on Aesthetic Beauty
Ø Spiritual and Supernatural Elements
Ø Sensory Descriptions
Major Writers
of Romantic Era
The most important Romantic poets can be classified into
three group:
The Pre Romantic: Thomas
Grey; William Cowper; William Blake; Robert Burns
The first generation: Coleridge,
Wordsworth. Robert Southey
The second generation: Shelley,
Byron and Keats
Few Best Poems by English Romantic Poets
1.
William Blake, ‘The Tyger’
2.
William Wordsworth, ‘My
heart leaps up’.
3. William Wordsworth, ‘I
wandered lonely as a cloud’.
4.
William Wordsworth, ‘Daffodils’.
5. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘Frost
at Midnight’.
6. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner’.
7. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘Kubla Khan’.
8. Percy Shelley, ‘To a
Skylark’.
9. Percy Shelley, ‘Ozymandias’.
10. John Keats, ‘Ode to a Nightingale’.
11. John Keats, ‘To Autumn’.
12.
Lord Byron, ‘Darkness’.
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