Romantics and their Contribution to English Literature

This paper aims to highlight romantics and what they had contributed to English Literature. The focus will be on William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley and some others. Their theories for literature and their views about poetry will be examined and analyzed. Furthermore, some of the poems of every writer will be analyzed as first hand sources to prove the point with regard to romanticism in English Literature. Poetry, its language, its subject will be focus and whom it is addressed will be given stress. Romanticism focused on imagination, lyrical quality, simple language, rural subject matter, nature, justice, freedom, equality