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. The Characteristics of the Romantic Poetry by He Zhi English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to have began in 1798 with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridges Lyrical Ballads and to have ended in 1832 with Sir Walter Scotts death and the passage of the first Reform Bill in the Parliament. The romantics asserted that reliance upon emotion and nature provided romantic movement typically asserts the unique nature of the individual, the privileged status of imagination and fancy, the value of spontaneity over and “ “convention, ” the human need for emotional outlets, and a desire to return to natural primitivism and escape the spiritual destruction of urban life. Their writings are often set in rural or Gothic settings and they show an obsessive concern with “innocent ” children, young lovers, and animals. The major romantic poets included William Blake, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Lord Gordon Byron. This essay describes two major characteristics of the romantic poetry, namely, nature and emotion. Nature The romanticism poets poetry mostly originates from the nature. The romanticism poets almost all advocate the nature. Nature is not only the major source of poetic imagery, but provides the dominant subject matter. Wordsworth conceives of nature as “thenurse, the guide and guardian of my heart and soul. ”Nature to the romanticists is a source of cleanliness and spiritual understandin