What is the important of poetry during the romantic age ?
In this context it is always capitalised as in Romantic, not romantic – that simply means love etc. The Romantics were disillusioned with the tired, strictly controlled poetry of their predecessors. The main focus of much of their poetry was that of the ego, or the self. They were the first poets to really concentrate on the importance of the consciousness and the ego’s battles with itself. Many of the first generation Romantics such as Wordsworth & Coleridge valued memory, nostalgia and above all the power of nature. This led to pantheism – a belief in a God which is not a corporeal being, but a kind of force or creator present within all of nature. Poetry around this time naturally focused on the wonder of the world, for the first time (and as a result of The Lyrical Ballads) pastoral (countryside/agricultural) poetry was considered almost as lofty as that of the Greeks or Shakespeare, whom many of the Romantics idolised. Another feature of poetry during this time was a search for es
