- Emphasis on emotion and individual expression
- Celebration of nature
- Focus on the imagination and the supernatural
- Interest in the past, especially the Middle Ages
- Rejection of the Enlightenment's emphasis on reason and logic
- Idealization of the peasant and the child
Some of the major Romantic poets include William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Romantic novelists include Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Victor Hugo. Romantic painters include J.M.W. Turner, Caspar David Friedrich, and Eugène Delacroix.