The biggest influence on the Romantic writers everywhere has been the prosperity, security and tranquillity prevailing on their societies. There has not been any singular and significant influence on them since romanticism has been an ancient thing. It was born with man and has been developing with him. Primitive sunsets and dawns also has generated romantic feelings in man.
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The French Revolution had an important influence on the writing of the Romantic period, inspiring writers to address themes of democracy and human rights and to consider the function of revolution as a form of change. In the beginning, the French Revolution was supported by writers because of the opportunities it seemed to offer for political and social change. When those expectations were frustrated in later years, Romantic poets used the spirit of revolution to help characterize their poetic philosophies. In this essay I am going to concentrate on the influence of the French revolution on two great romantic writers, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
American romantic writers felt cities are center of ugliness and corruption.
terrible or awe-inspiring beauty
it made the colonies bigger and bigger and that's when it exteneded!
The French Symbolists led by Baudelaire were a huge influence on English writers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.