What is Romantic poetry?

 Romantic poetry was written during the

Romantic literary movement, which
emphasized emotion, nature and individuality.
 This movement was most powerful at the end of
the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th
century.
 Romantic poetry tends to use fairly simple
language because it endeavors to have the
flavor of spontaneous speech.
 One of the most famous Romantic poets,
William Wordsworth, said that poetry was the
"spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings."
 Other poets in the Romantic tradition include
John Keats, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William
Blake, Friedrich Schiller and Emily Dickinson.
 This movement evolved as a response to the
Augustan movement, which emphasized
symmetry, erudite references and complex
vocabulary and syntax.
 The Romantic poets were also generally
pessimistic about the Industrial Revolution,
which had destroyed nature, and optimistic
about political revolutions, like the ones in
America and France, which gave freedom to
individuals.