English literature in the Romantic Period was influenced by three great Historical Events. Even though Frankenstein lives in solitude and experiences rejection, readers see him as a genuine representation of humankind. The volume began with Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” continued with poems displaying delight in the powers of nature and the humane instincts of ordinary people, and concluded with the meditative “Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey,” Wordsworth’s attempt to set out his mature faith in nature and humanity. Wordsworth and his followers, particularly Keats, found the prevailing poetic diction of the late 18th century stale and stilted, or “gaudy and inane,” and totally unsuited to the expression of their perceptions. The Romantic period in English literature began in the late 1700s and lasted through the mid-1800s. Poetry was regarded as conveying its own truth; sincerity was the criterion by which it was to be judged. After a long silence, he returned to poetry with The Parish Register (1807), The Borough (1810), Tales in Verse (1812), and Tales of the Hall (1819), which gained him great popularity in the early 19th century. Their concern was rather to change the intellectual climate of the age. Another key quality of Romantic writing was its shift from the mimetic, or imitative, assumptions of the Neoclassical era to a new stress on imagination. To Particularize is the alone Distinction of Merit.” The poet was seen as an individual distinguished from his fellows by the intensity of his perceptions, taking as his basic subject matter the workings of his own mind. Clipping is a handy way to collect important slides you want to go back to later. Lasting from 1830 to 1865, the Romantic period features a variety of characteristics including sensibility, love of nature, sympathetic interest in the past, mysticism, romantic criticism and primitivism. Characteristics of Romanticism Romantic Characteristic Description of Characteristic Interest in the common man and childhood Romantics believed in the natural goodness of humans which is hindered by the urban life of civilization. Romanticism is totally different from Romance novels. But feeling had begun to receive particular emphasis and is found in most of the Romantic definitions of poetry. The first factor emerges in his early manuscript poems “The Ruined Cottage” and “The Pedlar” (both to form part of the later Excursion); the second was developed from 1797, when he and his sister, Dorothy, with whom he was living in the west of England, were in close contact with Coleridge. Having briefly brought together images of nature and the mind in “The Eolian Harp” (1796), he devoted himself to more-public concerns in poems of political and social prophecy, such as “Religious Musings” and “The Destiny of Nations.” Becoming disillusioned in 1798 with his earlier politics, however, and encouraged by Wordsworth, he turned back to the relationship between nature and the human mind. Her experiences as vice-president of an energy consulting firm have given her the opportunity to explore business writing and HR. Escape to the Middle Ages Shelley wanted readers to sympathize with the monster's plight, praising him for his simplicity, originality and distinctiveness. Romantic Movement dates its origin in 1798 A.D. with the publication of Lyrical Ballads. The myths were the stuff of great stories and those ideals were woven into the literature of the romantic period. The romantics trust their hearts over their heads. The literature of the Victorian age (1837-1901) entered a new period after the romantic revival. Romanticism, attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism, and historiography in Western civilization over a period from the late 18th to the mid-19th century.