Romantic Poetry

Romantic poetry's specific use varies, but the most common definition is a movement in poetry seeking formal freedom, increased emotional affect and use of ancient and folk sources for poetry. Its first important members were Robert Burns, Goethe and James MacPherson, it would then flower in English Poetry with the work of William Blake, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, William Wordsworth and John Keats.

List of romantic poets

• William Blake
• George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
• John Clare
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• John Keats
• Charlotte Smith
• Friedrich Schiller
• James Macpherson
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• William Wordsworth
• Henry Longfellow
• Heinrich Heine
• Olav Aukrust