The development of Romantic poetry in the eighteenth century is inseparably associated with pictorial art, and especially with the rise of landscape painting.
The desire to be the spectator of your own life, to see yourself in all kinds of heroic and pathetic attitudes, is the motive-power of Romantic poetry in many of its later developments.
Remember Matthew Arnold's prophecy that at the end of the nineteenth century Wordsworth and Byron would be the two great names in Romantic poetry.
We have seen how the "Celtic Revival," as the Irish literary movement has been called by its admirers, gave us a new kind of romantic poetry.
It is in a territory poles apart from Mr. Kipling's that the main stream of romantic poetry flows.
Romantic poetry is the only sort which is more than a class, and, as it were, the art of poetry itself.
A more elaborated authoritative definition is given in the first volume of the Athenæum: "Romantic poetry is a progressive universal-poetry.
These tendencies in poetry were modified, in the latter part of the century, by the revival of romantic poetry.
Remembering them, we shall better appreciate the work of the following writers who, in varying degree, illustrate the revival of romantic poetry in the eighteenth century.
Neither can we here enter into a more particular consideration of the different kinds and forms of romantic poetry in general, but must return to our more immediate subject, which is dramatic art and literature.
He is consequently to be considered as the last summit of romantic poetry.
This is the high-water mark of romantic poetry; and, familiar as it is, cannot be dismissed here without full examination.
This, it seems to me, is essentially the difference between classic and romantic poetry"; and he names Homer and Milton as examples of the former, and Scott and Shelley of the latter school.
It remains to consider briefly the influence of Chatterton's life and writings upon his contemporaries and successors in the field of romantic poetry.
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