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Poetry of British Romanticism Romanticism Period: 1798 (the publication of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge)—1832 (the death of Sir Walter Scott). Romanticism - a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization; romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality Background The political and social factors that gave rise to the romantic movement were the three revolutions: American and French revolutions, national liberation movements and democratic movements. The shift in literature from emphasis