The Romantic poets

Romanticism is an innately human tendency;it has always appeared in art in one form or the other.By the turn of the century,the society had disintegrated and the entire national set-up had altered radically under the influence of industrialization and the French Revolution.New sections of people mattered.The common man could no longer be ignored.the poets like Blake,Wordsworth,Keats,Shelly,Byron...etc rebelled against society.They reacted against the concerns,language and forms of Augustan poetry.Satire was downgraded and poetry was not.Nature in its manifold forms was the major centre of interest for the romantic poets.