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, they began to embrace beauty and dismiss reason.
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.
Major Romantic poets
- England - Big Six: William Blake, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Shelley, William Wordsworth, John Keats.
- France: Alphonse de Lamartine, Alfred de Musset, Alfred de Vigny, Victor Hugo, Gerard de Nerval.
- Germany: Friedrich Schiller, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Hölderlin, Novalis, Heinrich Heine.
- Italy: Giacomo Leopardi.
- Poland: Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki, Zygmunt Krasiński.
- Russia - Golden Age of Russian Poetry: Vasily Zhukovsky, Aleksandr Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Fyodor Tyutchev.
Minor Romantic poets
- Brazil - Álvares de Azevedo, Castro Alves
- Czech Republic: Karel Hynek Macha.
- Hungary: Sándor Petőfi.
- Spain: José de Espronceda.
- Scotland: James Macpherson, Walter Scott.
- Sweden: Erik Johan Stagnelius.
- Ukraine: Taras Shevchenko.
- United States: Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
See also
External links
- [Collaborative archive of modern love poems and other romantic poetry]
- [Article on Romantic Poetry]
- [Romantic Poetry in the Styles of Old with Contemporary Rhythms]
| Romanticism | |
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| Romantic poetry: Blake - Burns - Byron - Coleridge - Goethe - Hölderlin - Hugo - Keats - Lamartine - Leopardi - Lermontov - Mickiewicz - Nerval - Novalis - Pushkin - Shelley - Słowacki - Wordsworth | |
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