Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

male, deceased (1834)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (October 21, 1772 - July 25, 1834) (pronounced) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher who was, along with his...
John Keats

John Keats

male, deceased (1821)
John Keats was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. During his short life, his work received constant critical attacks from...
Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

male, deceased (1849)
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the...
Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

male, deceased (1885)
Victor-Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights campaigner, and perhaps the most...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

male, deceased (1778)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (June 28, 1712 - July 2, 1778) was a Genevan philosopher of the Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French...
Historical Novel

Historical Novel

male
A historical novel is a novel in which the story is set among historical events, or more generally, in which the time of the action predates the...
Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

male, deceased (1924)
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-born novelist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. Some of his works have been labelled romantic: Conrad's...
Caspar David Friedrich

Caspar David Friedrich

male, deceased (1840)
Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 - May 7, 1840) was a 19th century German romantic painter, considered by many critics to be one of the...
Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom

male, 79 years old
Harold Bloom (b. July 11 1930) is an American professor and prominent literary and cultural critic. Bloom defended 19th-century Romantic poets at a...
John Constable

John Constable

male, deceased (1837)
John Constable was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area...