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NATURĘ

The Romantics. just as they cultivated sensitivity to emotion generally, especially cultivated sensitivity to naturę. It came to be felt that to muse by a stream, to view a thundering waterfall or even confront a rolling desert could be morally improving.

RELIGION

During the Romantic era many of poets were drawn to religious imagery in the same way they were drawn to Arthurian or other ancient traditions in which they no longer believed. Religion was estheticized, and writers felt free to draw on Biblical themes with the same freedom as their predecessors had drawn on classical mythology, and with as little reverence.

EXOTICISM

Another important aspect of Romanticism is the exotic. Generally anywhere south of the country where one was resided was considered morę relaxed, morę colorful, morę sensual. Exoticism in literaturę was inspired by Lord Byron-especially his Childe Harold's Pilgrimage-thar\ by any other single writer.

i! Some of the best regarded poets of the time were in fact women, including Anna Barbauld, Charlotte Smith, and Mary Robinson.

!! Many writers of the period were aware of a pervasive intellectual and imaginative climate, which some called "the spirit of the age." This spirit was linked to both the politics of the French Revolution and religious apocalypticism.

I! Wordsworth influentially located the source of a poem not in outer naturę but in the psychology and emotions of the individual poet.

!! Romantic poems habitually endow the landscape with human life, passion, and expressiveness.

IIAIthough we now know the Romantic period as an age of poetry, the prose essay, the drama, and the novel flourished during this epoch.

William Wordsworth (April 7, 1770 -April 23, 1850) was a major English romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literaturę with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth was England's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.

Robert Burns (January 25, 1759 - July 21, 1796) was a poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best-known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English. A cultural icon in Scotland and among Scots who have relocated to other parts of the world (the Scottish diaspora), his celebration became almost a national charismatic cult during periods of the 19th and 20th centuries, and his influence has long been strong on Scottish literaturę.

William Blake (November 28. 1757 -August 12, 1827) was an English poet, visionary, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, his work is today considered seminal and significant in the history of both poetry and the visual arts. One modern critic proclaiming Blake "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced." Blake is highly regarded today for his expressiveness and creativity, and the philosophical vision that underlies his work.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge(October 21,

1772 - July 25, 1834) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and one of the Lakę Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubła Khan, as well as his major prose work Biographia Literaria.

ROMANTIC POETS