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Important Romantic poets include William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry David Thoreau, William Blake, John Keats, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Others important fiction writers from the Romantic era include Emily Brontë (Wuthering Heights), Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre), Mary Shelley (Frankenstein), Herman Melville (Moby Dick), James Fenimore Cooper (The Last of the Mohicans), and Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter).

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Among the characteristic attitudes of Romanticism were the following: a deepened appreciation of the beauties of nature; a general exaltation of emotion over reason and of the senses over intellect; a turning in upon the self and a heightened examination of human personality and its moods and mental potentialities.

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Romanticism was a literary movement that emphasized nature and the importance of emotion and artistic freedom. Romanticism was a broad artistic movement encompassing visual arts, literature, poetry, philosophy and even politicsThis period produced authors who wrote about life, love, and nature. Writers expressed a great reverence for nature and believed that intuition, emotion, and imagination were more instructive than empiricism and reason.

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Romanticism was a literary movement that emphasized nature and the importance of emotion and artistic freedom. Romanticism was a broad artistic movement encompassing visual arts, literature, poetry, philosophy and even politicsThis period produced authors who wrote about life, love, and nature. Writers expressed a great reverence for nature and believed that intuition, emotion..

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The Victorian Era, spanning the duration of Queen Victoria’s rule from 1837 – 1901, is characterized by the expanding horizons of education and literacy, as well as by an increased desire of the people to question religion and politics. During this time period, publications such as Marx and Engles’ Communist Manifesto in 1848 and Darwin’s Origin of the Species in 1859, served as catalysts for political and religious controversy.

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The Victorian Period, in British history, the period between approximately 1820 and 1914, corresponding roughly but not exactly to the period of Queen Victoria’s reign (1837–1901) and characterized by a class-based society, a growing number of people able to vote, a growing state and economy, and Britain’s status as the most powerful empire in the world.

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Literature of this age tends to depict daily life. It reflected the practical problems and interests of daily life.

Victorian literature often had a moral purpose and tended to deviate from the earlier concept of art for arts sake.

The Victorian era tended to be an era of doubt and pessimism.

Children's literature and works featuring characters that were children surged in fame.

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Victorian society was organized hierarchically. While race, religion, region, and occupation were all meaningful aspects of identity and status, the main organizing principles of Victorian society were gender and class. As is suggested by the sexual double standard, gender was considered to be biologically based and to be determinative of almost every aspect of an individual’s potential and character.

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In the Romantic period the mainly literary genre was poetry but we also have a prose production, mainly novels. The movement was characterized by a celebration of nature and the common man, a focus on individual experience, an idealization of women, and an embrace of isolation and melancholy. Some features of the Romantic era include, emotion and passion, an awe of nature.

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 – 1861) was an immensely talented poet who rivalled the poet Alfred Tennyson for Poet Laureate.

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is arguably the most important literary figure in the English literary canon from the Victorian Period.

Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) is recognised as one of the most prolific playwrights of the age. He is known for the sarcasm and wit in his writings.