Romantic Poets

Important: First log into the Gale Virtual Reference Library. You will not be able to access the links below until you do. Then, click these links to read background information about the Romantic Movement and Poets:

Romantic Poetry, English

Nineteenth Century Romantic and Symbolist Poetry

For more information about the Romantic Era, you can read other articles in the Gale Virtual Reference Library or in the Literature Resource Center. 

Next, log into the Literature Resource Center, then click these links to read about each of these poets and their poems:

William Wordsworth

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Lord Byron

John Keats

Percy Bysshe Shelly

For more information about Romanticism, poets, and their works, search these databases:
Literature Resource Center 
Biography Resource Center  

To find poems by these poets online, check these websites:
bartleby.com
poets.org

Fun!: Create a Wordle. Here's how:

Wordle.net is a great tool for creating word clouds or mosaics, like the one at the top of this page). To create a Wordle cloud:

1. Go to wordle.net, and click Create.
2. In the text box, paste or type in the terms you want in your word cloud. Although each word you enter will appear only once in your cloud, the size of the word gets bigger for each time you repeat it in your typed text.
3. If you want words to “stick together” and be treated as a single word, insert a ~ in between them. For example: Romantic~Age. 
4. Click Go.
5. Once the word cloud appears, have fun adjusting the Font, Layout, and Color options until you have a cloud image you like.
   
6. Print or save your image.
   

To save your image:

o   On a PC, use Alt+Print Screen, then paste into Paint or any other image editing software to crop.

o   On a Mac, you can use Cmd+Shift+4 to save your image as a .png file.