Romanticism – Coleridge, Wordsworth and Keats

Romanticism – Coleridge, Wordsworth and Keats

The Romanticism was part of a period of profound social changes. The French and Industrial Revolutions gave the romantic poets a chance to see a huge transformation of the Occidental world from an agricultural society into an industrialized one. Many philosophers such as Locke, Franklin and Paine were focused on the individual rights, influencing a great deal of poets. The publication of the Lyrical Ballads in 1798, written by Wordsworth and Coleridge is considered the official beginning of the Romanticism and that end around 1830. The first generation of Romantic poets includes Blake, who anticipated the Romanticism, Wordsworth and Coleridge; the second generation includes Byron, Shelley and Keats.
This movement was responsible for a revolt against the rules of Classicism, it was also based on a rejection of the scientific ideals of the age, in general, according to Cevasco and Siqueira in Rumos da Literatura Inglesa, its ...