1\The Romantic Movement started in England and Germany.
2\ By the middle of the 18th century the word "romantic" in English and romantique in French were both in common use as adjectives of praise for natural phenomena such as views and sunsets, in a sense close to modern English usage. 3\ The Romantic period began in 1798. 4\ It started with the edition of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge. 5\ It ended in 1832, the year which marked the deaths of both Sir Walter Scott and Goethe. Topics of Romantic Poetry: 1\Nature: "Nature" meant many things to the Romantics. It was often presented as itself a work of art, constructed by imagination.
Nature was considered a healing power.
Nature was considered a source of subject and image.
Nature was considered a refuge from the artificial constructs
of civilization, including artificial language.
Romantic nature poetry is essentially a poetry of meditation.
Bright Star John Keats 1-not moving. Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art- 2- magnificent appearance. Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night 3-up in the air 4-lasting or existing forever. And watching, with eternal lids apart, 5- a person living in solitude Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, as a religious discipline. 6-religious person. The moving waters at their priest like task 7-the act of washing oneself. Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, 8- look steadily. 9- a covering for the face. Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors-
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Self-Reliance, The Conduct of Life, Representative Men, English Traits, Society and Solitude, Letters and Social Aims, Essays, Nature, Addresses and Lectures, Poems, May-Day and Other Pieces…
Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850.
Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1