Title: Your Complete Crash Course to Romantic Poetry
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Your Complete Crash Course to Romantic Poetry
What Is Romanticism? Definition, Historical Context, and Key Characteristics
What Caused Romanticism?
The Enlightenment Versus The Romantic Era
Romantic Poetry: The Superstar of the Romantic Era
In general, the Romantic poets explored three main topics in their poetry:
Theme 1: The Relationship Between Humanity and Nature
Theme 2: The Gothic and the Surreal
Theme 3: Odes, Lyrics, and Sonnets
Odes
Lyric Poems
Sonnets
How These Forms Work in Romantic Poetry
Poetic Genius: Philosophizing About Poets and Poetry
Top 7 Romantic Era Poets You Definitely Need to Know
William Blake
Works You Should Know:
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Works You Should Know:
William Wordsworth
Works You Should Know
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Works You Should Know
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Works You Should Know
John Keats
Works You Should Know
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Works You Should Know
2 Romantic Poems, Explicated
“Ozymandias,” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
“I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud,” by William Wordsworth
4 Best Books To Build Your Knowledge of the Romantic Era
The Penguin Book of American Poetry
Romantic Poetry: An Annotated Anthology
Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron, and Other Tangled Lives
Romanticism: A Very Short Introduction
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Ashley Robinson
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Content: The Romantic poets believed that the inner world of humans provided endless possibilities for new ideas and ways of thinking and living, which is exemplified in much of the poetry of the era. We can look more closely at the three main topics of Romantic poetry to see how this spirit of freedom and creativity was expressed throughout the Romantic Era. Theme 1: The Relationship Between Humanity and Nature
A major theme in Romantic poetry is the relationship between humans and their emotions and the natural world. The Romantic poets felt that humans’ internal lives and the exterior, natural world had a lot in common: they could both be mysterious, open and vast, wild and free, and sometimes a little bit terrifying. Romanticism’s focus on the relationship between humanity and nature was at least partially inspired by the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution, which we mentioned earlier. Enlightenment thinkers sought to rationalize natural phenomena. Similarly, industrialism depended on humanity’s ability to harness natural forces, like water power and fossil fuels, and put them to work. The new industrial society also required a big human workforce.