4. Romantic Poetry

Focus

For the Romantic Period, we are only focusing on poetry. This was by far the most popular form of literature, and the Romantic Period has produced some of England's finest poets.  

Theatre was not very popular in the Romantic Period, or at least, not a lot of theatre was written. 

Prose was beginning to be of interest, with Jane Austen and Mary Shelley as notable novelists, but the novel as a major literary art form only took off later in the Victorian Age, which is where we'll discuss more of it. 

Organisation

Each section is presented as follows: