Romanticism (1785-1870)

It was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement originated in Europe around 18th century. It was a reaction against the Industrial Revolution,  scientific bases and the aristocracy of Enlightenment .

At first, I start with William Blake who was a poet, painter and printmaker. He is recognised as a figure in poetry and visual arts of Romantic Age. Probable his most important works were "Songs of Innocence", "Songs of Experience" and  "Jerusalem".

The second one is William Wordsworth, a very famous Romantic poet. I could say that his most famous works are "Lines Written in Early Spring", "Tintern Abbey" and "Daffodils". In his works he reflected the nature and the rural life and his reaction against the Industrial Revolution.

Close to Wordsworth , you can find Samuel Taylor Coleridge, other English poet , critic and philosopher, friend of William Wordsworth.His prominent work "Kubla Khan" was famous because he composed the poem one night when  he experienced with opium.

(At the left we see Coleridge and at the right Wordsworth)

Against the Industrial Revolution emerged Charles Dickens with his work "Hard Times" which is about the society affected by the Industrial Revolution and how people have no feelings but rational issues.

Finally, novelists as Thomas Hardy and Jane Austen who narrate stories about the society affected by the same theme: Industrialization.

Thomas Hardy wrote "Tess of the d´Urbervilles", a storie about a rural girl and her hard life who has to survive her amorous feelings and her hard works she has.

Jane Austen is also famous with "Pride and Prejudice" which narrates the storie of a girl, how she is against the industrialization, she has real feelings and she marries with love and not with reason.

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_literature