The heyday of English romantic poetry began in the 1970s of 18 and ended in the 20s of 19. The famous poets are mainly Burns, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats.
Resist classicism, express your feelings more, express your ambition and dissatisfaction with reality through supporting things.
Modernism is still a valuable poetic experience. It is an important part of modern ideology and culture, which has played a pioneering role for them and played a breakthrough historical role. But romanticism is a bigger poetic phenomenon in scale, influence and today's consequences. Several roots of modernism lie in romanticism; The goal pursued by romanticism has not been fully realized today, while modernism as a literary fashion has become a thing of the past.
In order to explain this, it is necessary to re-understand romanticism. Romanticism covers a wide range and its content is complex, which needs to be limited. As the first step, I choose English romantic poetry as the concrete object of re-understanding.
The special importance of English romanticism is partly due to its environment and partly due to its performance. On the environment, Britain was the first country to experience the first industrial revolution and the largest colonial empire in the world. At home, the government used harsh laws to deal with mass movements, and the people's resistance was even higher, which eventually led to the later Charter Movement and parliamentary reform. From Blake to Keats, romantic poets have a deep feeling about this environment, and their works show unprecedented sharpness.