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3 unusual facts about romantic poetry


Coriolan Ardouin

Coriolan Ardouin (11 December 1812 – 12 July 1836) was a Haitian romantic poet.

Graveyard poets

Graveyard poets were also forerunners for the Romantic literary movement, due to the reflection on emotional states.

Thomas Jefferson Hogg

Thomas Jefferson Hogg (24 May 1792 – 27 August 1862) was a British barrister and writer best known for his friendship with the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.


A New Heaven

Owen's biographer Dominic Hibberd draws parallels with Owen's 1917 poem, Anthem for Doomed Youth, finding a Romantic nostalgia in both which was only expunged in the later poems written at Craiglockhart and after.

Čop Street

In 1949, it was renamed Čop Street after Matija Čop, an early 19th-century literary figure and close friend of the Slovene Romantic poet France Prešeren.

St. James's Bridge

Four bronze relief plaques depicting scenes from The Water Man, a Ljubljana-related Romantic ballad of the poet France Prešeren, were intended to be put on the fence of the bridge.

Vathek

Other Romantic poets wrote works with a Middle-Eastern setting inspired by Vathek, included Robert Southey's Thalaba the Destroyer (1801) and Thomas Moore's

Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon

He is considered by literary historians as one of the major voices in Malayalam poetry who marked the transition from the Romantic to the modern era.


see also

Paul Shannon

reading romantic poetry to electric organ accompaniment in the style of Peter Grant on the famous Cincinnati radio program Moon River over WLW.

Samina Raja

She started writing poetry in 1973 and published twelve books of poetry, two Kulliyat and one selection of her romantic poetry so far.