Facts about Romanticism in English Literature
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Lord Byron became a celebrity across Europe, with his brooding heroes lending the term 'Byronic hero' to Romanticism in English Literature and beyond.
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Mary Shelley, associated with Romanticism in English Literature, wrote Frankenstein at age eighteen during the famous ghost story challenge of 1816 at Lake Geneva.
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Gothic elements, intense emotion, and rebellion against social convention strongly characterize the second generation of English Romantics, including Byron, Shelley, and Keats.
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Nature, imagination, and the individual self were central themes distinguishing Romanticism in English Literature from the rationalism of the preceding Enlightenment era.
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William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge launched English Romanticism with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads in 1798.
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The Romantic period in English literature is generally dated from the 1780s to the 1850s, encompassing poets such as Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, and Shelley.