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1. Back From Set Rules
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2. Interest in Rural Life (https://englishno
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4. Love of Liberty and Freedom Rhyming Words
5. Escape to the Middle Ages (https://englishno
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6. Predominance of Imaginations & Emotions
7. Supernaturalism
8. Endless Variety
9. Subjectivity
10. Lyricism
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The poetry of the Romantic Revival Dictionary
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freestyle without following any rules and regulations.

Interest in Rural Life

The poetry of the 18th century was concerned with clubs
and co ee houses, drawing rooms and the social and
political life of London. It was essentially the poetry of town
life.

Nature had practically no place in Neo-classical Poetry. In

the poetry of Romantic Revival, the interest of poets was
transferred from town to rural life and from arti cial
decorations of drawing rooms to the natural beauty and
loveliness of nature.

Nature began to have its own importance in the poetry of

this age. Wordsworth was the greatest poet who revealed
the physical and spiritual beauty of nature to those who
could not see any charm in the wild owers, green elds and
the chirping birds.

Common Life
Romantic Poets started taking interest in the lives of the
common people, the shepherds, and the cottages and left
the gallant lords and gay butter ies of fashion to the care of
novelists.

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A renewed interest in the simple life marked the poetry(https://englishsummary.com/)
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the poets of the Romantic Age. A feeling of humanitarianism
colored the poetry of Wordsworth, Shelley, and Byron. Thus
Romantic Poetry was marked by intense human sympathy
and a consequent understanding of the human heart.

Love of Liberty and Freedom

In Romantic Poetry, the emphasis was laid on liberty and
freedom of the individual. Romantic poets were rebels
against tyranny and brutality exercised by tyrants and
despots over humans crushed by poverty and smashed by
inhuman laws.

Escape to the Middle Ages

Some Romantic poets (//englishsummary.com/romantic-
poets/) felt irritated with the tyranny and ugliness of
materialistic life of their age and to avoid the life of uneasy
restlessness, they escaped from the problems of the world
to a world of beauty and joy which their poetic de nitions
had pictured.

In many ways, Romantic Poetry proved to be the poetry of

escape from the sorrows and su erings of worldly life and
their times to the Middle Ages, where they found the eternal
bliss.

The enthusiasm for the Middle Ages

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satis ed the emotional sense of wonder on the one hand
and the intellectual sense of curiosity on the other hand.

Predominance of Imaginations &

Emotions

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In Romantic Poetry, reason and intellect were subdued(https://englishsummary.com/)
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their place was taken by imaginations, emotions, and
passion. In the poetry of all the Romantic Poets
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nd heightened emotional sensibilities and imaginative
ights of genius bordering on heavenly heights uncrossed
by the poets of the previous age
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Supernaturalism
Supernaturalism is another outstanding quality of Romantic
Poetry. Poets like Coleridge and Scott gave a sense of
wonder and mystery to poetry. It was this supernaturalism
that gave the atmosphere of wonder and mystery to the
Romantic Poetry.

Endless Variety
In Romantic Poetry, we come across an endless variety. The
poetry of this age is as varied as the character and moods of
di erent writers.

Subjectivity
Subjectivity began to have its full play in the poetry of this
age. The poets of this period were in favor of giving a
subjective interpretation of the objective realities of life. “The
Romantic Movement”, says William J. Long “was the expression
of individual genius rather than of the established rules.”

Lyricism
In Romantic Poetry, lyricism predominates and the poets of
this school have, to their credit, a number of ne lyric
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and sweetness of tone.

Simplicity in Style
The style of the Romantic Poets
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stress was laid on simplicity. Instead of an arti cial model of
the expression of classical poets, we have a natural diction
and spontaneous way of expressing thoughts in Romantic
Poetry.

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