Romantic Revolution

The next time it’s Valentine’s Day, romance might be at your library instead of at the florist. Throw out the flowers and listen to this.

The Romantic Era (1798 – 1832) brought forward-thinkers into the mainstream like Samuel Taylor Coleridge and John Keats. These poets used poetry to ask questions about life, to praise and teach. They told stories and ushered in a new movement that used imagination, fancy and imagery.

Lyrical Ballads, published in 1798, marked the beginning of this period. Why did a book start a movement? Lyrical Ballads was a departure from ‘traditional poetry’ and a dip into something newer. Coleridge and Wordsworth (the authors) created a kind of poetry that was easier to understand. Even the countrymen read, and enjoyed Lyrical Ballads. Hence, the Romantic Era begun.

Before this time, all the poems were cookie-cutter and bland. Coleridge said that poetry was the ‘overflow of powerful feelings’, putting emotion into......

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