Romanticism 1800-1850

• To kickstart the beginning of this period the publication of the lyrical romantic ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge was majorly influential.
• "Spontaneous overflow of powerful emotion"
• Presents nature as mysterious
• Quite opposite to neo-classical writers who claimed nature is scientific and logical, they are saying it's mysterious and difficult to understand.
• People become aware of their own mortality and how we can't pin down reality.
• It's about the reflection of intense emotion often in nature
• It includes finding beauty within nature and then experiencing this beauty why exploring nature and the emotion it brings.
• What does eventually is the gothic period where we find elements of this in Frankenstein, Dracula, Jane Eyre and Wuthering heights.
• Nature, human psychology and no room for satire.
• Popular writers : William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley and the much older William Blake.