  romanticism, a philosophical, literary, artistic and cultural eraromanticism. academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu. retrieved on 2012-05-17. which began in the mid/late-18th centuryromanticism. wsu.edu. retrieved on 2012-05-17. as a reaction against the prevailing enlightenment ideals of the day (romantics favored more natural, emotional and personal artistic themes),introduction to romanticism. uh.edu. retrieved on 2012-05-17.romanticism : introduction â britannica online encyclopedia. britannica.com. retrieved on 2012-05-17. also influenced poetry. inevitably, the characterization of a broad range of contemporaneous poets and poetry under the single unifying name can be viewed more as an exercise in historical compartmentalization than an attempt to capture the essence of the actual âmovementâ. poets such as william wordsworth were actively engaged in trying to create a new kind of poetry that emphasized intuition over reason and the pastoral over the urban, often eschewing consciously poetic language in an effort to use more colloquial language. wordsworth himself in the preface to his and coleridge's lyrical ballads defined good poetry as âthe spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings,â though in the same sentence he goes on to clarify this statement by asserting that nonetheless any poem of value must still be composed by a man âpossessed of more than usual organic sensibility [who has] also thought long and deeply;â he also emphasizes the importance of the use of meter in poetry (which he views as one of the key features that differentiates poetry from prose).wordsworth, william. the poetical works of wordsworth. oxford university press. london, 1960. although many people stress the notion of spontaneity in romantic poetry, the movement was still greatly concerned with the pain of composition, of translating these emotive responses into poetic form. indeed, [[samuel taylor cole
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