Romanticism was an intellectual and artistic movement that originated in the second half of the 18 th century. It was a reactionary response against the scientific rationalisation of nature during the Enlightenment, commonly expressed in literature, music, painting and drama. While the Romantic sensibility permeated multiple artistic mediums, in literature, it often manifested in passionate poetry … Romanticism focused on emotions and the inner life of the writer, and often used autobiographical material to inform the work or even provide a template for it, unlike traditional literature at the time. The term Romanticism does not stem directly from the concept of love, but rather from the French word romaunt (a romantic story told in verse). The romantic era produced many of the stereotypes of poets and poetry that exist to this day (i.e., the poet as a … It emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the emotional, and the visionary. One of America's public literary figures, Robert Frost received the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960. Romanticism, attitude that characterized works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism, and historiography in the West from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. Technically, many of these war poets owed something to the 1930s poets, but their work grew out of the particular circumstances in which they found themselves living and fighting. His works influenced other poets like Robert Francis, James Wright, Edward Thomas, Richard Wilbur, and Seamus Heaney. Included are the monumental Romantic poets often nicknamed “the Big Six”—the older generation of Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge and the so … Much of the work of the time is seen as a bridge between the romantic era and the modernist poetry of the next century. The French Revolution had begun in 1789. So, themes of Romantic poetry - we're going to start by setting the scene for the birth of Romantic poetry. An influential poet, Frost was honored with four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry, the only poet to receive four such awards. Of all the English poets that comprise the Romantic period, George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824), John Keats (1795-1821), and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) stand as the quintessential masters of Romantic poetry. It was the late 18th century. The Romantic movement lasted from about the 1770s to the 1850s. The Romantic movement, which originated in Germany but quickly spread to England, France, and beyond, reached America around the year 1820, some 20 years after William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge had revolutionized English poetry by publishing Lyrical Ballads.In America as in Europe, fresh new vision electrified artistic and intellectual circles. Victor Hugo was a noted French romantic poet as well, and romanticism crossed the Atlantic through the work of American poets like Walt Whitman and Edgar Allan Poe. 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