1.	Romanticism

2.	Pre – Romanticism

2.1.	Poetry (Robert Burns, William Blake)

2.2.

Prose

3.	Romanticism

3.1.	Poetry (William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats)

3.2.	Prose (Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott)

"The Romantic Revival in the end of the 18th century was a revolt against a cold formality of classicism and against the new bourgeois order of society.
Pre – Romanticism
- the literature of Pre – Romanticism can be divided into two parts – poetry and prose.

a) Poetry:
The greatest pre – romantic poets were Robert Burns and William Blake

Robert Burns was born in a poor Scottish family. Although his school attendance was short, Burns acquired knowledge of French and Latin, and of literature. He was very fond of Scottish folk songs. Because he wanted to earn money, he published his poems. The book was successful, and was re-edited in the following year.
Then he wrote his famous poem My heart´s in the highlands. It is basedon Scottish folklore not only in matter, but also in form. This is why many of his poems, such as A red, red rose or Auld lang syne, were set to music.

William Blake didn´t write only poems, but also illustrated them. His two most famous collections of verse are Songs of innocence and Songs of experience.

b) Prose:
The sign of the approachong romanticism was the appearance of Gothic novels, which were exaggerated tales of gorror, full of mysterious happening and haunted castles. The best of them were The mystery of udolpho by Anne Radcliffe and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, which is the first book of Science fiction.

Romanticism

a) Poetry:
- There are two groups of Romantic poets.
- The first group, rather conservative, also known as the Lake School, is presented mainly by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge who published jointly Lyrical ballads. The prolog of this book is wellknown as a Manifest of Romanticism. An important part of the book is The rime of the ancient mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
- The second group of Romanticist is presented by „revolutionaries“ Byron, Shelley and Keats."