As we prepare to study the poetry of William Wordsworth, it is worthwhile taking a brief look at Romantic Literature in general. Here is a list of some of the poets and writers that you may be interested in researching. Some of them you will be familiar with already.

• William Blake (1757 – 1827)
• William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)
• Lord Byron (1788 – 1824)
• James Fenimore Cooper (1789 – 1851)
• Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 – 1822)
• John Keats (1795 – 1821)
• Mary Shelley (1797 – 1851)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864)
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 1882)
• Edgar Allen Poe (1809 – 1849)
• Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892)
• Herman Melville (1819 – 1891)

This video is also worth a look. It gives a brief overview of the Romantic style and themes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV_q45Otdic&feature=related