What is the definition of Romantic poetry?

Romantic poetry was written by European and American poets beginning around the turn of the nineteenth century and lasting till approximately mid-century. As a literary movement, Romanticism was a reaction against what preceded it, Neoclassicism, and the more rational ideas of the Enlightenment. Romantic poetry idealized Nature, man's imagination, emotions, intuitive ways of gaining knowledge, spirituality, the supernatural, and an appreciation for history. Approaches to the subject of poems tend to be subjective rather than...

Romantic poetry was written by European and American poets beginning around the turn of the nineteenth century and lasting till approximately mid-century. As a literary movement, Romanticism was a reaction against what preceded it, Neoclassicism, and the more rational ideas of the Enlightenment. Romantic poetry idealized Nature, man's imagination, emotions, intuitive ways of gaining knowledge, spirituality, the supernatural, and an appreciation for history. Approaches to the subject of poems tend to be subjective rather than objective, and adherence to established forms and metrical regularity is common. Many of the more well-known Romantic poems were British, such as Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, and Shelley. American Romantics include Whitman, Dickinson, Longfellow, Holmes, and Whittier. Ralph Waldo Emerson and other Transcendentalists are also considered Romantics, and Poe is noted for his particular interest in the Gothic.