ROMANTIC POETRY

'Romantic poetry' was part of the Romantic movement of European literature during the 18th-mid-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. Further, the Romantic poets were frustrated by the limitations placed on knowledge and the human condition by the Enlightenment's valorization of reason over emotion. As a result, the Romantics often praised imagination as a means of furthering systems of knowledge they believed were truncated by embracing reason solely.
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.

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Major Romantic poets

Minor Romantic poets

See also

External links

Major Romantic poets

★ Brazil: Álvares de Azevedo, Castro Alves, Casimiro de Abreu, Gonçalves Dias

★ England - Big Six: William Blake, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth, John Keats.

★ France: Alphonse de Lamartine, Victor Hugo, Théophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire.

★ Germany: Novalis, Clemens Brentano, Joseph von Eichendorff, Achim von Arnim

★ Hungary: János Arany

★ Ireland: Oscar Wilde, Thomas Moore.

★ Italy: Giacomo Leopardi, Ugo Foscolo.

★ Poland: Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki, Zygmunt Krasiński.

★ Romania: Mihai Eminescu.

★ Russia - Golden Age of Russian Poetry: Aleksandr Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Fyodor Tyutchev, Evgeny Baratynsky

★ Scotland: Robert Burns, Joanna Baillie.

★ United States: Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson

Minor Romantic poets

★ Brazil: Qorpo Santo, Sousandrade

★ Czech Republic: Karel Hynek Macha, Rainer Maria Rilke

★ Denmark: Adam Oehlenschläger, Jakob Orbesen, Hans Christian Andersen, Hanne Yoo.

★ England: Robert Southey, Thomas Moore, James Henry Leigh Hunt, Thomas Chatterton, John Clare, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Lady Anne Lindsay, Charlotte Smith.

★ France: Alfred de Vigny, Gerard de Nerval, Leconte de Lisle.

★ Hungary: Sándor Petőfi, Mihály Vörösmarty.

★ Iceland: Jónas Hallgrímsson.

★ Ireland: James Clarence Mangan, Thomas Davis.

★ Norway: Henrik Arnold Wergeland, Johan Sebastian Cammermeyer Welhaven.

★ Portugal: Almeida Garrett, Alexandre Herculano.

★ Russia: Vasily Zhukovsky, Konstantin Batyushkov.

★ Spain: José de Espronceda.

★ Scotland: James Macpherson, Walter Scott.

★ Slovenia: France Prešeren.

★ Sudan: Rashad Hashim.

★ Sweden: Erik Johan Stagnelius.

★ Ukraine: Taras Shevchenko.

See also

★ Romanticism

★ Romance (genre)

External links

★ Article on Romantic Poetry

★ Romantic Poetry in the Styles of Old with Contemporary Rhythms

★ Examples of Romantic Poetry