| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Percy Shelley | english poet,Prometheus Unbound, revolt against oppressing laws, less-gifted people didn't recognize his talent, Hymn of Apollo |
| Lord Byron | melancholy romantic era, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Greek independence, love of nature |
| William Wordsworth | english poet, Lyrical Ballads-manifesto for "new poetry", emotional response to nature |
| Samuel Coleridge | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, needed water because there was nothing to drink |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | german romantic, "heroic genius" who fulfills himself in spite of constraints of society, Faust, The Sorrows of the Young Werther |
| Sir Walter Scott | scottish, Waverly, Rob Roy |
| Victor Hugo | Les Miserables |
| Alexander Dumas | The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask |
| Theodore Gericault | french painter,napoleonic soldiers, shipwrecks, Portrait of an Officer of the Chasseurs Commanding a Charge, The Raft of Medusa, Man Clutching a Horse in Water |
| Eugene Delacroix | french, greatest of romantic painters, historic or dramatic stories, movement and intense colors to overwhelm viewer, Liberty Leading the People, The Death of Sardanapalus |
| Ludwig von Beethoven | german composer, "bridge" between classical and romantic periods, deaf as an adult, Third Symphony (Eroica) |
| Franz Schubert | viennese, romantic lyric poetry and music, incorrporated folk songs into his compositions |
| Friedrich | german, nature a manifestation of divine life, Man and Woman Gazing at the Moon |
| Malford Turner | English, nature through light and color to show natural effects,Rain, Steam, and Speed-The Great Western Railway |
| Hector Berlioz | program music, Symphonie Fantastique-passionate emotions of a tortured love affair |
| Chateaubriand | Genius of Christianity, "Bible of Romanticism", Catholicism echoed harmony of all things |
| Walter Scott | Ivanhoe, bizarre and unusual |
| Edgar Allen Poe | Gothic, american who created short stories of terror, The Fall of the House of Usher |
| Mary Shelley | Frankenstein, mad scientist, shows what happens when they try to take over nature |
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