The Romantic Period in British literature streached from roughly the year 1785 to the year 1830 and is marked by the three primary themes of Nature , Individiualism , and Imagination. However to say that the Romantic wrote poetry about nature is to grossly simplify and largely obliterate the true acomplishments of the period . Romantic authors such as William Wordsworth or Samuel Coleridge in many ways created the modern definition of Nature poemsuch that the poetic view of field and wood has never been the same . Simlarly Lord Byron did not merely write self-centered characters , or semi-biographical works but largely redefined the relationship between the individual and society as well as the relationship between heroism and virtue . Both of these revolutions in thought and writing though are the byproduct of a much larger reworking of imagination itself . The Romantics, especially Percy Shelly ,are instrumental in the communication and formation of a new more inclusive conception of the imagination that persists to this day
