What is Romantic poetry?
'''Romantic Poetry''' was one branch of the [[romanticism|Romantic movement]]. The first generation of Romantic poets (1798) were primarily [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge|Coleridge]], [[William Blake]] and [[William Wordsworth|Wordsworth]]. The second generation was at its culmination in the 1820s, with poets such as [[Percy Bysshe Shelley|Shelley]], [[Lord Byron|Byron]] and [[John Keats|Keats]]. The movement showed an interest in the [[Gothic]], [[Medieval]] [[art]], and [[nature]]. The [[ballad]] form was re-introduced, and the poems often took their form from [[fairy tale]]s and [[folk song]]s. Poets were enjoying writing for themselves rather than senior nobility, and later they were the source of inspiration for the [[Pre-Raphaelite]] painters. {{hist-stub}} [[Category:Poetry]]