Romanticism

Romantic period goes from the second half of the XVIII century to the first half of the XIX century, from George III to Queen Victoria.
The most important historical event is the French Revolutionwith the three ideals of equality, fraternity, liberty. There is also the Industrial Revolution with the fight between the employers and the workers; in fact there is lack of work because of theintroduction of new machineries in place of human work. Connected to this, there is the Agricultural Revolution. So the workers grouped together in working-class-movements.
In England, Romanticism waspreceded by a period called Pre-Romanticism, while Romanticism was divided into 2 different periods: 1st and 2nd generation. In the first generation the most important poets are William Blake, WilliamWordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The most important concept is nature, in fact the poet looks for isolation in nature, because this causes intense emotion. Very often nature was compared to God,so there is Pantheism. Life in the countryside was the best for it's simplicity and humble way of living. The best place in England considering the countryside was the Lake District, in northernEngland. Two poets live there: Coleridge and Wordsworth, so they were called the Lake Poets. Another important concept is the "sublime". Sublime means freedom in expressing feelings. There is alsospontaneity in expressing feelings. These feelings comes from the contact of the poet with the beauty of nature, so there is introspection, another keyword of this generation. Introspection is a way to revealthe inner feelings and thoughts of the poet, so reality and thought are subjective. The structure of the poem is called first person lyric, so the poems are written in first person poet to expressbetter the personality and the experiences of the poet.

The second generation has 3 important poets: George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. All of them died tragically when they...