Romanticism was a major poetic movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries that valued feeling, imagination, nature, individual experience, and freedom from strict classical rules. Romantic poets often wrote about the inner life, the beauty and power of the natural world, childhood, memory, and the imagination as a source of truth.
Writers commonly associated with Romanticism include Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Burns, Keats, Shelley, and Byron.
Example
The wind climbed the dark hill
and the poet followed,
listening for a truth
he could not find in the city.