Romantic Age Literature
## The Romantic Age in English Literature ## Introduction The Romantic Age in English literature spans from roughly 1798 to 1837. It was a period of profound change, marked by a reaction against the...
## The Romantic Age in English Literature ## Introduction The Romantic Age in English literature spans from roughly 1798 to 1837. It was a period of profound change, marked by a reaction against the rationalism of the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. ## Key Characteristics 1. Emphasis on emotion and individualism 2. Glorification of nature 3. Interest in the supernatural 4. Celebration of the common man ## Major Poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats are considered the major Romantic poets.