Romantic Literature Research

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The Romantic Period was a literary, an artistic and intellectual movement that started in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1840. partly a reaction to the Industrial Revolution. It saw a shift from faith in reason to faith in the senses, feelings, and imagination. No period has been the topic of so much disagreement and confusion over its defining principles and aesthetics. It was expressed mainly in poetry although some novelists used many of the same themes. Romanticism is concerned with the individual more than with society. The individual consciousness and especially the individual imagination are especially fascinating for the Romantics. Melancholy” was quite the buzzword for the Romantic poets, and altered states of consciousness were often sought after in order to enhance one’s creative potential. Romantic poets wrote about the marvelous and supernatural, the exotic, and the medieval. But they also found beauty in the lives of simple rural people and aspects of the everyday world.

Notable Romantic poets from Britain include William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats.