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Parent topics
- History [r]: Study of past human events based on evidence such as written documents. [e]
- Philosophy [r]: The study of the meaning and justification of beliefs about the most general, or universal, aspects of things. [e]
- Literature [r]: The profession of “letters” (from Latin litteras), and written texts considered as aesthetic and expressive objects. [e]
- Visual arts [r]: Creative fields that produce works primarily experienced through the sense of sight. [e]
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Leading figures
- Ludwig van Beethoven [r]: (1770—1827) German composer, widely regarded as one of the greatest creators in Western music. [e]
- Hector Berlioz [r]: (1803-1869) French composer. [e]
- William Blake [r]: (1757-1827) was an English poet and artist, posthumously seen as one of the leading figures of the Romantic Movement. [e]
- Lord Byron [r]: (January 22, 1788 - April 19, 1824), George Gordon Byron, English romantic poet, known not only for his poetry, but also his unconventional lifestyle and advocacy for Greek independence. [e]
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge [r]: (Oct. 21, 1772 - July 25, 1834) Romantic poet and critic, colleague of William Wordsworth. [e]
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [r]: (1749 - 1832) German writer, poet, and philosopher; still considered the greatest writer of German literature [e]
- Victor Hugo [r]: Victor-Marie Hugo (1802-1885), poet, novelist and playwright, was the dominant French writer of the 19th century, and also a considerable political figure. [e]
- John Keats [r]: (31 October 1795 - 23 February 1821) Despite his death from tuberculosis at the age of 25, one of the major poets of the English Romantic Movement. [e]
- Eleanor Porden [r]: (14 July 1795 - 22 February 1825) British Romantic poet and the first wife of the explorer John Franklin. [e]
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau [r]: (1712–1778) French author and philosopher. [e]
- Friedrich Schiller [r]: (1759—1805) German dramatist and poet. [e]
- Walter Scott [r]: (1771-1832) A prolific Scottish poet and novelist, considered the originater of the genre of historical fiction. [e]
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley [r]: (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) The author of Frankenstein. [e]
- Percy Bysshe Shelley [r]: (1792-1822) English poet, major exponent of the romantic movement. [e]
- William Wordsworth [r]: (7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850) One of the leading English romantic poets. [e]