The Romantic period in literature lasted from 1789 to 1832, a time of revolution and changes in society and politics across Europe. Some of the major writers of the period in England included William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein. Many of their works explored themes of nature, imagination, and emotions through poetry and prose.

1. THE ROMANTIC AGE
(1789-1832)

2. The Romantic period lasts about forty years, from the
French Revolution in 1789 to the Reform Act of 1832. It is
sometimes called the Age of Revolution: the American
Revolution of 1776, and the spirit of ‘liberty, equality,
fraternity’ of the French Revolution made it a time of hope
and change.
Society was changing, becoming industrial rather than
agricultural as towns and cities developed; the government
encouraged free trade; the new middle class became
powerful, and there were moves towards voting reform and
greater democracy.

3. In literature, Romantic writing is mostly poetry:
Wordsworth and Coleridge wanted a revolution
too, in poetic language and in themes which
contrasted with the earlier Augustan age.

4. William Blake
(28 November 1757-12 August 1827)
William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely
unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal
figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age.
His best-known collection of poetry Songs
of Innocence and Experience was published
in 1794. Songs of Innocence and of
Experience is an illustrated collection of
poems by William Blake. It appeared in two
phases. A few first copies were printed and
illuminated by William Blake himself in
1789.

5. The Marriage of Heaven
and Hell is a series of
texts written in imitation
of biblical prophecy but
expressing Blake's own
intensely personal
Romantic and
revolutionary beliefs.
The Four Zoas isThe
titular main
characters of the
book are the Four
Zoas (Urthona,
Urizen, Luvah and
Tharmas), who were
created by the fall of
Albion in Blake's
mythology.
Milton is an epic poem by William Blake, written
and illustrated between 1804 and 1810. Its hero
is John Milton, who returns from Heaven and
unites with Blake to explore the relationship
between living writers and their predecessors,
and to undergo a mystical journey to correct his
own spiritual errors.

6. WilliamWordsworth
(7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850)
William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel
Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature
with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).
Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798
and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English
Romantic movement in literature.
Lyrical Ballads

7. SamuelTaylor Coleridge
(21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834)
Was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher, with his friend
William Wordsworth, he was a founder of the Romantic Movement in
England and a member of the Lake Poets.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime
of the Ancyent Marinere) is his best-known poem and
the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel
Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and published in
1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

8. Christabel
Christabel is a long narrative poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in two parts.
The first part was reputedly written in 1797, and the second in 1800.
Coleridge planned three additional parts, but these were never completed.
The story of Christabel concerns a central female character of the same
name and her encounter with a stranger called Geraldine, who claims to
have been abducted from her home by a band of rough men.
Kubla Khan is a poem about the creative imagination
which is, for Coleridge, the most powerful of all the
human senses.
Kubla Khan
Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment.

9. Dejection: An Ode
Dejection: An Ode is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1802. The
poem in its original form was written to Sara Hutchinson, a woman who was
not his wife, and discusses his feelings of love for her.
Biographia Literaria, or in full Biographia Literaria;
or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and
Opinions, is an autobiography in discourse by Samuel
Taylor Coleridge, which he published in 1817, in two
volumes. It has 23 chapters.
Biographia Literaria

10. John Keats
(31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821)
Was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the
second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy
Bysshe Shelley, despite his work having been in publication for only
four years before his death.
"Ode on a Grecian Urn" is a poem written by the
English Romantic poet John Keats in May 1819 and
published anonymously in the January 1820.
Ode on a Grecian Urn

11. Ode to a Nightingale
"Ode to a Nightingale" is a poem by John Keats written either in the garden
of the Spaniards Inn, Hampstead, London or, according to Keats'
friend Charles Armitage Brown, under a plum tree in the garden of Keats'
house at Wentworth Place, also in Hampstead.
Isabella, or the Pot of Basil (1818) is a narrative poem
by John Keats adapted from a story
in Boccaccio's Decameron (IV, 5). It tells the tale of a
young woman whose family intend to marry her to
"some high noble and his olive trees", but who falls for
Lorenzo, one of her brothers' employees.
Isabella

12. Lamia
Lamia is a narrative poem written by English poet John Keats which was
published in 1820. The poem was written in 1819, The poem tells how the
god Hermes hears of a nymph who is more beautiful than all.
The Eve of St. Agnes is a Romantic narrative poem, It
was written by John Keats in 1819 and published
in 1820. The poem is widely considered to be one of
his finest and was influential in 19th century literature.
The Eve of St. Agnes

13. La Belle Dame Sans Merci
"La Belle Dame sans Merci" "The Beautiful Lady Without Mercy" is
a ballad written by the English poet John Keats. It exists in two versions,
with minor differences between them. The original was written by Keats
in 1819. He used the title of the 15th-century La Belle Dame sans
Mercy by Alain Chartier, though the plots of the two poems are different.
"To Autumn" is a poem by English Romantic poet John
Keats. The work was composed on 19 September 1819
and published in 1820 in a volume of Keats's poetry that
included Lamia and The Eve of St. Agnes.
To Autumn

14. Percy Bysshe Shelley
(4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822)
Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets, A
radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley
did not see fame during his lifetime.
"Ode to the West Wind" is an ode, written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in
1819 near Florence, Italy. It was originally published in 1820 by Charles
and Edmund Ollier in London as part of the collection Prometheus
Unbound, A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, With Other Poems. Some have
interpreted the poem as the speaker lamenting his inability to directly
help those in England owing to his being in Italy.

15. George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)
(22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824)
Lord Byron, was an Anglo-Scottish poet and a leading figure in the
Romantic movement. Among his best-known works are the lengthy
narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and the short
lyric poem "SheWalks in Beauty".
Manfred: A dramatic poem is a closet drama written in 1816–
1817 by Lord Byron. It contains supernatural elements, in
keeping with the popularity of the ghost story in England at
the time. It is a typical example of a Gothic fiction.

16. Robert Burns
(25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796)
was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known
for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his
lamentation of its disruption.
also known as Rabbie Burns, the Bard of Ayrshire, Ploughman
Poet and various other names and epithets, was a Scottish poet
and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of
Scotland and is celebrated worldwide.
John Clare
(13 July 1793 – 20 May 1864)

17. Sir Walter Scott
(15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832)
was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which
interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the
end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of
women on marriage in the pursuit of favorable social standing and
economic security.
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish historical novelist,
playwright and poet with many contemporary readers in
Europe, Australia, and North America.
Scott's novels and poetry are still read, and many of his works
remain classics of both English-language literature and of
Scottish literature.
Jane Austen
(16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817)

18. Frankenstein
was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist,
biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel
Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and
promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and
philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by
English author Mary Shelley that tells the story of Victor
Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a grotesque but
sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley
started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition
of the novel was published anonymously in London in 1818,
when she was 20.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851)