Romanticism Literature

Romantic literature encompasses writing in which imagination, inward experience, nature, and inherited stories acquire particular importance. In poetry, Wordsworth and Coleridge give distinctive forms to memory, perception, and the relation between human life and the natural world. Fiction associated with the period explores historical memory, unusual encounters, and the pressures placed on individual judgment. The movement differs across languages and does not reduce to one doctrine or style. Its literary energy often comes from the distance between what a person hopes or imagines and the duties, limits, and relationships of lived experience.