The English romantic period is an age of poetry. Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats are the major Romantic poets. The Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Cloeridge in 1798 acts as a manifesto for the English Romanticism.

They started a rebellion against the neoclassical literature, which was later regarded as the poetic revolution. They explored new theories and innovated new techniques in poetry writing. They saw poetry as a healing energy; they believed that poetry could purify both individual souls and the society. They not only eulogize the faculty of imagination, but also stress the concept of spontaneity and inspiration, regarding them as something crucial for true poetry. The natural world comes to the forefront of the poetic imagination. Nature is not only the major source of poetic imagery, but also provides the dominant subject matter. They advocate freedom from classical rules and traditions and turn toe humble people and their everyday life for subjects. They are always seeking for the Absolute, the Ideal through the transcendence of the actual. They prefer to write about something exotic, remote, mysterious, weird, monstrous, and even satanic.