The Romantic Period in English Literature
The Romantic period emphasised emotion, imagination, individualism and nature over reason and industrial progress.
Key Poets
- William Wordsworth - Daffodils, Tintern Abbey
- S. T. Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- John Keats - Ode to a Nightingale
- P. B. Shelley - Ozymandias
- Lord Byron - Don Juan
Major Themes
Nature, the sublime, childhood, the supernatural and revolution.