1781-1900

Poetry written in England during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), including by poets Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and others.

A group of late 19th-century French writers who favored dreams, visions, and the associative powers of the imagination in their poetry.

A poetic movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries that turned toward nature and the interior world of feeling, in opposition to the mannered formalism and disciplined scientific inquiry of the Enlightenment era that preceded it.