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Learn how Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's failed love affairs inspired his work.
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If for a day joy masters me / Think not my wounds are healed.
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On January 1, 1818, a small London publisher printed 500 copies of Frankenstein;...
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Learn about Edgar Allan Poe's place in the Gothic literary tradition and his influence...
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English Romantic poet and artist William Blake wrote and illustrated “The Tyger”...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Rogers Fund, 1917 (accession no. 17.10.42); www.metmuseum.org
Lord Byron on Shore of the Hellenic Sea, oil on canvas by Giacomo Trécourt,...
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English poet William Wordsworth was one of the leading figures of the first phase...
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Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott, author of such works as Rob Roy (1817)...
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Goethe in the Campagna, oil painting by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein,...
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
German poet and theorist Novalis, who influenced later Romantic thought in German...
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Jacob (right) and Wilhelm Grimm, oil portrait by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, 1855;...
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin—Preussischer Kulturbesitz
German poet Heinrich Heine was a transitional figure from late Romanticism to realism.
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Engraving depicting Swiss-born French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau contemplating...
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French poet and political journalist André de Chénier was executed during the last...
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French-Swiss writer Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, baronne de Staël-Holstein, known...
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Page of the manuscript of Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame (first...
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French novelist, poet, and playwright Victor Hugo was a leading French Romantic and...
Archives Photographiques, Paris
French essayist and novelist Stendhal wrote one of the first Romantic manifestos...
Courtesy of the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble, Fr.; photograph, Studio Piccardy
French Romantic novelist George Sand has been described as a sentimental socialist,...
Yale University Art Gallery, Everett V. Meeks, B.A. 1901, Fund (1974.42)
Adam Mickiewicz, detail of an oil painting by Aleksander Kaminski, 1850.
Courtesy of the Instytut Sztuki, Polska Akademia Nauk, Warsaw
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, detail of an oil painting by X.J. Kaniewski; in the National...
Courtesy of the Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw
Cuban-born Spanish playwright and poet Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda was one of the...
Archivo Mas, Barcelona
Spanish poet and dramatist José Zorrilla y Moral was a major figure of the nationalist...
American writer Edgar Allan Poe was a master of the macabre and is credited with...
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American novelist James Fenimore Cooper found enormous popularity with his Leatherstocking...
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American poet Walt Whitman produced one of the great works of the American Renaissance,...
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American poet Emily Dickinson is one of the most important poets of 19th-century...
Amherst College Archives & Special Collections (Public Domain)
Cuban poet José María de Heredia became the embodiment of the Romantic outcast, dying...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Argentine writer Domingo Faustino Sarmiento was a towering figure of Latin American...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The Argentine gaucho became a popular figure during the Romantic era of Latin American...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Courret Hermanos (neg. no. LC-USZ62-53041)
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