Romantic Era/Timelines

A chronological list of some of the influential or landmark works of the Romantic Era.

1773  Goethe: Götz von Berlichingen (play)

1774  Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther (novel)

1781  Schiller: The Robbers (play)

1798  Wordsworth and Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads (poems)

1803  Beethoven: Eroica symphony

1805  Scott: The Lay of the Last Minstrel (narrative poem)

1808  Goethe: "Faust" (part 1) (play)

1812  Byron: ''Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (poem)

1818  Mary Shelley: Frankenstein (novel)

1818  Géricault: The Raft of the Medusa (painting)

1820  P.B. Shelley: Prometheus Unbound (narrative poem)

1822  Delacroix: Dante and Virgil in Hell (painting)

1827  Hugo:  Cromwell (play, but particularly its Preface)

1830  Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (symphony)

1832  Goethe: Faust part 2 (play)