William Blake
Blake's radical views and individual artistic style were overlooked during his lifetime but his work is now much admired and seen as vehement criticism of industrialisation.
Lord Byron
Bawdy and brash, but was Byron all talk and no poetry?
John Clare
The Peasant Poet, an undeclared voice of the people?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A great thinker who struggled with his personal demons.
John Keats
He died tragically young but his poetry lives on.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
A radical who caused scandal with his views.
William Wordsworth
He helped create a movement with a new poetic voice.
Images: National Portrait Gallery, London
See also
- How did the Romantic vision bring change? Read more at the Open University
- The later Romantics - In Our Time on Radio 4
- The Romantics and originality - In Our Time on Radio 4
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