Romanticism in Literature

Romanticism in literature, began around 1750 and lasted until 1870. Different from the classical ways of Neoclassical Age(1660-1798), it relied on imagination, idealization of nature and freedom of thought and expression. Two men who influenced the era with their writings were William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, both English poets of the time. Their edition of “Lyrical Ballads”, stressed the importance of feeling and imagination. Thus in romantic Literature the code was imagination over reason, emotion …

…lose it’s glitter by the middle of the nineteenth-century. Literature started to get serious again focusing on issues such as problems of religion and faith and politics of the English democracy. Now instead of journeying to mythical places through the reading people wanted and writers wrote about truth. Yet through the years literature of the English Romantic Age will never even now be forgotten as it still impacts some of our authors of today.