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The six best-known English male authors are, [citation needed] in order of birth and with an example of their work: William Blake – The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; William Wordsworth – The Prelude
Charlotte Smith (1749–1806), English Romantic poet and novelist; Caroline Anne Southey (1786–1854), English poet; Agnes Strickland (1796–1874), English history writer and poet; Judit Dukai Takách (1795–1836), Hungarian poet; Amable Tastu (1795–1885), French poet and writer; Ann Taylor (1782–1866), English poet and critic
William Blake (painting, engraving, poetry) George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (poetry) John Clare (poetry) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poetry, philosophy, criticism, German scholar) John Constable (painting) Thomas de Quincey (essays, criticism, biography) Thomas Chatterton (poetry) Ebenezer Elliot (Poet Activist) William Hazlitt (criticism ...
Romantic poetry is the poetry of the Romantic era, an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. It involved a reaction against prevailing Neoclassical ideas of the 18th century, [ 1 ] and lasted approximately from 1800 to 1850.
The Romantic movement in English literature of the early 19th century has its roots in 18th-century poetry, the Gothic novel and the novel of sensibility. [6] [7] This includes the pre-Romantic graveyard poets from the 1740s, whose works are characterized by gloomy meditations on mortality, "skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms". [8]
The Romantic poet William Wordsworth, thinking along similar lines, wrote that poetry should begin with "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings", which the poet then "recollect[s] in tranquility", enabling the poet to find a suitably unique form for representing such feelings.
British Women Romantic Poets - an electronic collection of texts for the period (1789–1832). The Brown University Women Writers Project Emphasis is on pre-Victorian women writers. A Celebration of Women Writers - A major focus of this site is the development of on-line editions of older, often rare, out-of-copyright works.
William Wordsworth (pictured) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature in 1798 with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads. In English literature, the key figures of the Romantic movement are considered to be the group of poets including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the much older ...