Romantic Age
The Romantic Period began in the late eighteenth century and ended in the early nineteenth century. This period was named “Romantic” not because there was a greater love among men and women, but because poets used there talents to create poems which would influence poetry. ... “The beginning of the Romantic Age in English literature is usually set in 1798, the year in which William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge published a book of their poems called Lyrical Ballads “. ... Often the word Romantic or Romanticism can be ambiguous. ... ” When we say the Romantic Age, we do not refer it to the way we would think about it today. ... The Romantic Age began in the eighteenth century and extended in its way into the Victorian era and into the twentieth century. ... However, the Romantic literature and art were postponed for a while due to the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars; and the French Revolution was the most memorable historic event in the Romantic period. ... “The romantic Age in England began with perhaps the greatest act of collaboration in all of English literature. ” The works Lyrical Ballads of both William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge had a great influence on English poetry during the Romantic Age. ... Before they began start writing, there were two Romantic subjects that they wanted to write about, “the natural or commonplace, and the supernatural or romantic.