1813 in poetry
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The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan scene from Byron's The Giaour painted by Eugène Delacroix (1826)
Title page of the limited first edition of Shelley's Queen Mab, published this year
Lord Byron in Albanian Dress, by Thomas Phillips, painted this year
Romantic poetry
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Romantic poetry is the poetry of the Romantic era, an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. It involved a reaction agains
1813 in poetry
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The Funeral of Shelley by Louis Edouard Fournier (1889); the group members, from left to right, are Trelawny, Hunt and Byron
In the Western cultural context, romanticism substantially contributed to the idea of what a real poet should look like. An idealized statue of a Czech man Karel Hynek Mácha (in Petřín Park, Prague) represents him as a slim, tender and perhaps unhealthy boy. However, he had in reality a strong, robust and muscular body. He was the head(literal) of the Romantic Poetry Age or the Age of Romantic Poetry.