Romantic poetry

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Romantic poetry was part of the Romantic movement of European literature during the 18th-19th centuries. Some have attributed the Romantic era of poetry as a reaction against the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. Romantic poetry displays a return to nature by man, which is strongly seen in the works of Wordsworth. The Romantics were tired of the exhaustion of reason and the search for truth and so, decided to dismiss reason and embrace beauty.

The specific use of the term romantic poetry varies, but the most common definition is a movement in poetry seeking formal freedom, increased emotional effect and use of ancient and folk sources for poetry.

Contents 1 Major Romantic poets 2 Minor Romantic poets 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Major Romantic poets

• England - Big Six: William Blake, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth, John Keats.
• France: Alphonse de Lamartine, Victor Hugo.
• Germany: Friedrich Schiller, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Hölderlin, Heinrich Heine.
• Italy: Giacomo Leopardi, Alessandro Manzoni.
• Poland: Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki, Zygmunt Krasiński.
• Russia - Golden Age of Russian Poetry: Aleksandr Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Fyodor Tyutchev, Evgeny Baratynsky
• Scotland: Robert Burns.

[edit] Minor Romantic poets

• Brazil: Álvares de Azevedo, Castro Alves.
• Czech Republic: Karel Hynek Macha.
• Denmark: Adam Oehlenschläger, Jakob Orbesen.
• England: Robert Southey, Thomas Moore, James Henry Leigh Hunt, Thomas Chatterton, John Clare, Anna Barbould, Lady Anne Lindsay.
• France: Alfred de Musset, Alfred de Vigny, Gerard de Nerval.
• Hungary: Sándor Petőfi.
• Germany: Novalis, Clemens Brentano, Joseph von Eichendorff, Achim von Arnim.
• Romania: Mihai Eminescu.
• Russia: Vasily Zhukovsky, Konstantin Batyushkov.
• Spain: José de Espronceda.
• Scotland: James Macpherson, Walter Scott.
• Slovenia: France Prešeren.
• Sweden: Erik Johan Stagnelius.
• Ukraine: Taras Shevchenko.
• United States: Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

[edit] See also

• Romanticism
• Romance (genre)

[edit] External links

• Article on Romantic Poetry
• Romantic Poetry in the Styles of Old with Contemporary Rhythms
• Examples of Romantic Poetry
• Collection of Romantic Poetry

Romanticism
18th century - 19th century
Romantic music: Beethoven - Berlioz - Brahms - Chopin - Grieg - Liszt - Puccini - Schumann - Tchaikovsky - The Five - Verdi - Wagner
Romantic poetry: Blake - Burns - Byron - Coleridge - Goethe - Hölderlin - Hugo - Keats - Lamartine - Leopardi - Lermontov - Mickiewicz - Nerval - Novalis - Pushkin - Shelley - Słowacki - Wordsworth
Visual art and architecture: Brullov - Constable - Corot - Delacroix - Friedrich - Géricault - Gothic Revival architecture - Goya - Hudson River school - Leutze - Nazarene movement - Palmer - Turner
Romantic culture: Bohemianism - Romantic nationalism
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