Today I'm gonna talk about Romanticism. Romanticism was a cultural and political movement which began in Germany and United Kingdom in the XVIII century. It started like a revolutionary reaction against Enlightenment and Classicism. The topics used in Romanticism were love, nature and life. One of the main poets of Romanticism in England was John Keats. He wrote long narrative poems, but his fame was due to his short poems. He also wrote odes and sonnets about the expression of beauty. Here I leave one of his odes, called Ode on a Grecian Urn.
Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
What leaf-fring’d legend haunts about thy shape
Of deities or mortals, or of both,
In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?
What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?
What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?