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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]
French literature from the first half of the century was dominated by Romanticism, which is associated with such authors as Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, père, François-René de Chateaubriand, Alphonse de Lamartine, Gérard de Nerval, Charles Nodier, Alfred de Musset, Théophile Gautier and Alfred de Vigny. Their influence was felt in theatre ...
Pushkin's work influenced many writers in the 19th century and led to his eventual recognition as Russia's greatest poet. [76] Other Russian Romantic poets include Mikhail Lermontov (A Hero of Our Time, 1839), Fyodor Tyutchev (Silentium!, 1830), Yevgeny Baratynsky (Eda, 1826), Anton Delvig, and Wilhelm Küchelbecker.
Robert Burns (poet, considered a forerunner of British Romanticism along with Thomas Gray) Thomas Carlyle (essayist, historian and philosopher) James Macpherson (poet) Walter Scott (poet and historical novelist) George MacDonald (author and poet) John Duncan (painter)
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; Samuel Taylor Coleridge – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; George Gordon, Lord Byron – Don Juan, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"
Later in the 19th century, Some architects sought more exotic sources. Byzantine architecture was the inspiration for French some buildings in the late 19th century, notably the domes of the church of Sacré-Cœur, Paris begun by Paul Abadie (1874–1905).
Pushkin's work influenced many writers in the 19th century and led to his eventual recognition as Russia's greatest poet. [33] Other Russian Romantic poets include Mikhail Lermontov ( A Hero of Our Time , 1839), Fyodor Tyutchev ( Silentium! , 1830), Yevgeny Baratynsky ( Eda , 1826), Anton Delvig , and Wilhelm Küchelbecker .
The 19th century is traditionally referred to as the "Golden Era" of Russian literature. Romanticism permitted a flowering of especially poetic talent: the names of Vasily Zhukovsky and later that of his protégé Alexander Pushkin came to the fore. Pushkin is credited with both crystallizing the literary Russian language and introducing a new ...