lyric poem, dating from the Romantic era, does have some thematic antecedents in ancient Greek and Roman verse, but the ancient definition was based on metrical criteria, and in archaic and classical Greek culture presupposed live performance accompanied by a stringed instrument.

The Roman love elegy of Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid ( Amores, Heroides ), with its focus on the poetic " I " and the expression of personal feeling, may be the thematic ancestor of much medieval, renaissance, Romantic and modern lyric poetry, but these works were composed in elegiac couplets, and so were not lyric poetry in the ancient sense.

Other important Romantic lyric writers of the period include Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley and George Gordon, Lord Byron.

Later in the century the Victorian lyric is more linguistically self-conscious and defensive than the Romantic lyric.

The Swedish " Phosphorists " were influenced by the Romantic movement and their chief poet, Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom produced many lyric poems.

The cerebral and skeptical Romantic Stevens helped revive the philosophical lyric, and Williams was to become exemplary for many later poets because he, more than any of his peers, contrived to marry spoken American English with free verse rhythms.

These poems are characteristic of the transition through which the German lyric was passing between 1840 and 1848 ; the old Romantic strain is still dominant, especially in his ballads, which are unquestionably his finest productions ; but, side by side with it, there is to be seen the influence of Platen, to whose warmest admirers Strachwitz belonged, as well as echoes of the restless political spirit of those eventful years.

The brief season of the tenore contraltino was over and there had begun the new era of the Romantic tenor, whether it was called lyric or dramatic, elegiac or spinto, robusto or di grazia, which is still enduring till present times.

Fichman's poetry followed a traditional lyric Romantic style.

Although Morris ' political work is well to the fore, Thompson also used his literary talents to comment on aspects of Morris ' work, such as his early Romantic poetry, which had previously received relatively little consideration.

This is not to say they would be two different poems, since the technique of having separate parts that respond to another is used in the genre of the odal hymn, used in the poetry of other Romantic poets including John Keats or Percy Bysshe Shelley.

" In 1985, David Jasper praised the poem as " one of his greatest meditations on the nature of poetry and poetic creation " and argued " it is through irony, also, as it unsettles and undercuts, that the fragment becomes a Romantic literary form of such importance, nowhere more so than in ' Kubla Khan '.

The Romantic movement of the 18th century led to the re-discovery of Old Gaelic and Old Norse literature and poetry.

The concept of a " national epic ", an extensively mythologized legendary work of poetry of defining importance to a certain nation, is another product of Romantic nationalism.

Many other " national epics ," epic poetry considered to reflect the national spirit, were produced or revived under the influence of Romantic nationalism: particularly in the Russian Empire, national minorities seeking to assert their own identities in the face of Russification produced new national poetry – either out of whole cloth, or from cobbling together folk poetry, or by resurrecting older narrative poetry.

The re-discovery of medieval Germanic poetry, including Gottfried von Strassburg's version of Tristan, the Nibelunglied and Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, left a large impact on the German Romantic movements during the mid-19th century.

Along with other poems in Lyrical Ballads, it was a signal shift to modern poetry and the beginning of British Romantic literature.

According to A. S. Byatt, " In British Romantic poetry the Arabian Nights stood for the wonderful against the mundane, the imaginative against the prosaically and reductively rational.

During the Second World War, he co-founded, with his old teacher Mieczysław Kotlarczyk, the underground Rhapsodic Theatre, a group cultivating the Romantic tradition of live poetry.

They became especially popular in the 19th Century in Europe and the United States, inciting opposition from writers of Romantic poetry.

On account of its popularity in both society and its recurring appearances in Romantic poetry, a variety of new nicknames for the flower began to circulate.

The Imagists rejected the sentiment and discursiveness typical of much Romantic and Victorian poetry.

As an aspiring poet, Rossetti wished to develop the links between Romantic poetry and art.

The technique appears in English Romantic poetry, particularly in the poetry of Wordsworth, and was defined in the following way by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in his Biographia Literaria: " To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood ; to combine the child ’ s sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for perhaps forty years had rendered familiar.

West has recorded over fifty audiobooks, among which are the Shakespeare plays All's Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing and Richard II, the Wind on Fire trilogy by William Nicholson ( The Wind Singer, Slaves of the Mastery and Firesong ), the Arthur trilogy by Kevin Crossley-Holland ( The Seeing Stone, At the Crossing Places and King of the Middle March ), five books by Sebastian Faulks ( Charlotte Gray, Birdsong, The Girl at the Lion d ' Or, Human Traces and A Possible Life ), four by Michael Ridpath ( Trading Reality, Final Venture, Free to Trade, and The Marketmaker ), two by George Orwell ( Nineteen Eighty-Four and Homage to Catalonia ), two by Mary Wesley ( An Imaginative Experience and Part of the Furniture ), two by Robert Goddard ( Closed Circle and In Pale Battalions ) and several compilations of poetry ( Realms of Gold: Letters and Poems of John Keats, Bright Star, The Collected Works of Shelley, Seven Ages, Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age and A Shropshire Lad ).

In many ways, he was one of the forerunners of Romantic poetry.

Richardson also recorded some English Romantic poetry, such as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, for the label.

Purchasing and reading guidebooks became an increasingly important part of visiting castles ; by the 1820s visitors could buy an early guidebook at Goodrich outlining the castle's history, the first guidebook to the Tower of London was published in 1841 and Scottish castle guidebooks became well known for providing long historical accounts of their sites, often drawing on the plots of Romantic novels for the details.

Famous cases include Greyfriars Bobby who attended his master's grave for fourteen years ; Hachiko, who returned to the place he used to meet his master every day for nine years after his death ; and Foxie, the spaniel belonging to Charles Gough, who stayed by her dead master's side for three months on Helvellyn in the Lake District in 1805 ( the fact that Gough's body was eaten by his dog was ignored in subsequent Romantic accounts of the story ).

* " Romantic jealousy is here defined as a complex of thoughts, feelings, and actions which follow threats to self-esteem and / or threats to the existence or quality of the relationship, when those threats are generated by the perception of a real or potential attraction between one's partner and a ( perhaps imaginary ) rival.

Romantic music attempted to increase emotional expression and power to describe deeper truths or human feelings, while preserving but in many cases extending the formal structures from the classical period, in others, creating new forms that were deemed better suited to the new subject matter.

The Romantic movement exemplified these feelings.

Romantic art was about individual feelings, not common themes, such as in Neoclassicism ; in such a way, Romantic art often used colours in order to express feelings and emotion.

During the Romantic Era of the 1800s, a series of American writers described their feelings upon sight of the Pictured Rocks.

Like many Romantic artists, musicians, and writers, the Nazis valued strength, passion, frank declarations of feelings, and deep devotion to family and community.

Like his, it is not a setting of the classic Mass Ordinary, but instead offers German-language songs whose sensibility is freely related to the expressions in the Ordinary, and that express the feelings of the worshippers in Romantic style.

The first nocturnes to be written under the specific title were by the Irish composer John Field, generally viewed as the father of the Romantic nocturne that characteristically features a cantabile melody over an arpeggiated, even guitar-like accompaniment.

The power of the technique was exploited early in the nineteenth century by composers of Romantic opera, such as Carl Maria von Weber, where recurring themes or ideas were sometimes used in association with specific characters ( e. g. Sammael in Der Freischütz is coupled with the chord of a diminished seventh ).

As it can invoke in the listener a specific experience other than sitting in front of a musician or musicians, it is related to the purely Romantic idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk describing Wagner's Operas as a fusion of many arts ( set design, choreography, poetry and so on ), although it relies solely on musical aspects to illustrate a multi-faceted artistic concept such as a poem or a painting.

* Philip Massinger's play The Unnatural Combat ( c. 1619 ) contains specific echoes of the case and antedates the Romantic revival of Beatrice by 200 years.

Romantic nationalism formed a key strand in the philosophy of Hegel ( 1770-1831 ), who argued that there was a " spirit of the age " or zeitgeist that inhabited a particular people at a particular time, and that, when that people became the active determiner of history, it was simply because their cultural and political moment had come.

For the second class, subjects were to be chosen from ordinary life ... In this idea originated the plan of the ' Lyrical Ballads '; in which it was agreed, that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least Romantic ; yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

The Romantic revival, seeing in him a victim of its special bête noire Boileau, and attracted by his splendid diction, rich metrical faculty, and combination of classical and medieval peculiarities, adopted his name as a kind of battle-cry, and for the moment exaggerated his merits somewhat.

" In an October 1981 interview, at the pinnacle of the New Romantic movement in mainstream pop music, Sylvian commented " There's a period going past at the moment that may make us look as though we're in fashion.

Both the choice of subject matter and the heightened manner in which the dramatic moment is depicted are typical of Romantic painting — strong indications of the extent to which Géricault had moved from the prevalent Neoclassical movement.