Romantic poetry
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Romantic poetry was part of the Romantic movement of European literature during the 18th-19th centuries. Some have attributed the Romantic era of poetry as a reaction against the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. Romantic poetry displays a return to nature by man, which is strongly seen in the works of Wordsworth. Tired of the exhaustion of reason and the search for truth, the Romantics decided to dismiss reason and embrace beauty.
The specific use of the term romantic poetry varies, but the most common definition is a movement in poetry seeking formal freedom, increased emotional effect and use of ancient and folk sources for poetry.
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[edit] Major Romantic poets
- England - Big Six: William Blake, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth, John Keats.
- France: Alphonse de Lamartine, Victor Hugo, Alfred de Musset.
- Germany: Novalis, Friedrich Hölderlin, Heinrich Heine.
- Italy: Giacomo Leopardi, Alessandro Manzoni.
- Poland: Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki, Zygmunt Krasiński.
- Russia - Golden Age of Russian Poetry: Aleksandr Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Fyodor Tyutchev, Evgeny Baratynsky
- Romania: Mihai Eminescu.
- Scotland: Robert Burns.
- United States: Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Andrew Witbeck
[edit] Minor Romantic poets
- Brazil: Álvares de Azevedo, Castro Alves.
- Czech Republic: Karel Hynek Macha, Rainer Maria Rilke
- Denmark: Adam Oehlenschläger, Jakob Orbesen.
- England: Robert Southey, Thomas Moore, James Henry Leigh Hunt, Thomas Chatterton, John Clare, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Lady Anne Lindsay.
- France: Alfred de Vigny, Gerard de Nerval, Leconte de Lisle.
- Hungary: Sándor Petőfi.
- Germany: Clemens Brentano, Joseph von Eichendorff, Achim von Arnim.
- Portugal: Almeida Garrett.
- Russia: Vasily Zhukovsky, Konstantin Batyushkov.
- Spain: José de Espronceda.
- Scotland: James Macpherson, Walter Scott.
- Slovenia: France Prešeren.
- Sudan: Rashad Hashim.
- Sweden: Erik Johan Stagnelius.
- Ukraine: Taras Shevchenko.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Article on Romantic Poetry
- Romantic Poetry in the Styles of Old with Contemporary Rhythms
- Examples of Romantic Poetry
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