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The following poems, poets, articles, poem guides, and recordings offer introductory samples of the Romantic era. Included are the monumental Romantic poets often nicknamed “the Big Six”—the older generation of Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge and the so-called Young Romantics—Byron, Shelley, and Keats.
- Lord Byron
The most flamboyant and notorious of the major English...
- Leigh Hunt
Leigh Hunt, prolific poet, essayist, and journalist, was a...
- She Walks in Beauty
The most flamboyant and notorious of the major English...
- The Sick Rose
Poet, painter, engraver, and visionary William Blake worked...
- John Keats
John Keats was born in London on 31 October 1795, the eldest...
- William Wordsworth
FURTHER READINGS ABOUT THE AUTHOR Bibliographies: Thomas J....
- Romanticism
Romanticism. A poetic movement of the late 18th and early...
- Lord Byron
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 Enlightenment ideas of the 18th century, [1] and lasted approximately from 1800 to 1850.
May 27, 2004 · A Brief Guide to Romanticism - Romanticism was arguably the largest artistic movement of the late 1700s. Its influence was felt across continents and through every artistic discipline into the mid-nineteenth century, and many of its values and beliefs can still be seen in contemporary poetry.
- Daffodils. Poet: William Wordsworth. Published: 1807. Poem:- I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
- The Tyger. Poet: William Blake. Published: 1794. Poem:- Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
- The Raven. Poet: Edgar Allan Poe. Published: 1845. Excerpt:- Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
- Ozymandias. Poet: Percy Bysshe Shelley. Published: 1818. Poem:- I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . .
Other poets of the early Romantic period. In his own lifetime, Blake’s poetry was scarcely known. Sir Walter Scott, by contrast, was thought of as a major poet for his vigorous and evocative verse narratives The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805) and Marmion (1808). Other verse writers were also highly esteemed.
