Britain is one of the earliest countries where romantic literature appeared. British romantic writers are dissatisfied with the development of capitalist urban civilization and tend to be cynical and reclusive. Robert burns (1759- 1796) and william blake (1757- 1827 7),1poets in the middle and late 8th century, pioneers of romantic literature. They have made many valuable attempts in the style and language of English poetry. Burns draws nutrition from Scottish folk songs, and the poems written in Scottish dialect are good at lyricism and satire, and the language is popular. Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience are symbolic and mysterious, which made great contributions in the 20th century and influenced the whole modern English poetry.

However, the first real masters of English romanticism were three poets called "Lake Poets". William wordsworth (1770- 1850) is the most accomplished poet in Hunan. He and Samuel Coleridge, another poet of "lake poets" (1772- 1834) * * *, published The Collection of Lyric Ballads, which became a legend in Britain. Wordsworth wrote most of the poems in the anthology, and Coleridge's famous poems Ode to the Ancient Ship and Kublai Khan were also included, which were full of fantasy and absurd images. However, Wordsworth's most important work in this period is the long poem "Overture". Southey's poems are full of ancient feelings and are out of tune with the secular world. The three poets of the Lake Poetry School, all living in the northwest lake area of England, are the representatives of gentle and beautiful romantic literature with memories of medieval and patriarchal rural life.

George byron (1788- 1824) and Shelley (1792- 1822) pushed English romantic literature to its peak. The difference between them and Huxiang poets is that their works have more fighting consciousness and political inclination. Shelley's masterpiece Prometheus Liberated describes the sufferings of the oppressed people and the inevitable outcome of tyrants through myths, and predicts that revolution will surely come. His short poems "ode to the west wind" and "To the Lark" are powerful, and even more, "If winter comes, can spring be far behind?" Waiting for famous sentences to be handed down from generation to generation. Byron was the most famous romantic poet in the first half of the19th century. He has traveled around the world all his life, and his poems are full of exotic feelings. The representative work Don Juan is an in-depth review of the capitalist system, which is thought-provoking. Byron became a cultural phenomenon in Europe. People call the image of a romantic who is lonely, tragic and advocates individual resistance "Byronic hero". Byron devoted himself to the national liberation movement in Greece in his later years and eventually died of typhoid fever in the Greek battlefield.

The representative figure of English romantic literature is john keats (1795- 182 1). His creative career was only five years, but he wrote famous lyric poems Ode to a Nightingale and Ode to an Ancient Greek Urn, indulging in the beautiful rural scenery of the ancient world. Walter scott (177 1- 1823) mainly writes novels. Ivanhoe described Robin Hood as a fugitive hero in England in the12nd century. He is the founder of European historical novels.

Germany

Germany is the birthplace of romanticism. The backwardness of politics and economy, the weakness of the bourgeoisie and the prevalence of idealistic philosophy determine that the early romanticism in Germany has a strong mysticism and religious color. Schlegel brothers are the theoretical founders of German romanticism. They took the temple of Athena as their position, expounding the romantic thoughts of personality liberation and artistic aimlessness. Under the influence of schlegel Brothers, a number of early romantic poets including Novalis (1772- 180 1 year) and Tick (1773- 1853) appeared in Germany. Novalis's Ode to the Night praises the "sacred, unspeakable and mysterious" night and the wonderful feeling of death. Tick-tock wrote three volumes of folk fairy tales, creating a new theme of fairy tale novels. After 1805, Heidelberg Romanticism appeared in Germany, with Clemens brentano (1778- 1842) and Achim von Anim (178 1-65438) as the representatives. The former lyric poem "Hypnotia" has the flavor of folk songs and is full of poetry. They jointly published a collection of folk songs, The Boy's Magic Horn, which collected and included German folk songs for nearly 300 years. Jacob green (1785- 1863) and william green (1786- 1859) are linguists and folklorists. Their collection of children's and family's fairy tales is called the world's fairy tales. Joseph von Eisendorf's novel The Life of a Useless Man (1788- 1857) mixes fantasy with reality and is full of mystery.

After 1809, German romanticism formed another center in Germany. Kleist's comedy Broken Urn (1777-1811) attacked the corruption of Prussia's officialdom and judicial system, and was full of humorous and ironic features of folk comedies. Hoffman (1776- 1822)' s The Outlook on Life of Male Cat Moore shows a world of intrigue, thieves and prostitutes, with strange imagination and conception. Heine, a great poet, was also a romantic poet in his early years, and later turned to realism.

On the whole, the romantic characteristics of Germany are not obvious, and the style changes more. Later, he gradually merged into a strong realistic literary trend.

France

Due to the unpredictable twists and turns of the French Revolution, French romantic literature has a more distinct political color. Fran?ois René de Chateaubriand (1768- 1848) and madame de stael (1766- 18 17) are early representatives of French romanticism. The former tends to be aristocratic, while true Christianity advocates the revival of medieval ethics. However, its lyrical description of American jungles, prairies, ancient ruins and other exotic scenery has become the source of romanticism literature's exoticism and depiction of "the beauty of ruins". His novels Renee and Adala both describe the contradiction between secular love and religious belief. On the other hand, madame de stael has a democratic tendency. Her "On Literature" and "On Germany" are devoted to spreading romantic ideas and spare no effort to attack French classical traditions. Alphonse de Lamartin (1790- 1869) and Alfredo de Winnie (1797- 1863) are the representatives of French romanticism in the middle period. The former is good at writing lyric poetry and is the pioneer of French romantic poetry. Meditation combines scenes and makes good use of contrast and symbolic brushstrokes. The latter is famous for its philosophical poems. The Collection of Ancient and Modern Poetry and the Collection of Destiny carry forward the spirit of detachment and perseverance, and express the thoughts of caring for others.

After 1830, victor hugo became the leader of French romantic literature, and he also epitomized the whole western romantic literature. 1830, Hugo's play "Onani" was staged, which marked that romanticism finally defeated classicism in France. Hugo is a rare all-rounder among romantic writers, and he has made great achievements in the fields of poetry, novel and drama. His novels Notre Dame de Paris, 1993, Les Miserables and so on. As magnificent as an epic, it is a classic work of romantic novels. Hugo supported * * against monarchy all his life. He was in exile at 185 1 and didn't return to France until 1870. Hugo has also made great achievements in the field of poetry and drama. He expanded the expressive forms and writing skills of French poetry to the greatest extent, greatly enriched the rhetorical skills of French poetry and had a great influence on later generations. When Hugo died, more than 2 million people from all over Europe came to France to attend his state funeral.

George sand (1802- 1876) is a contemporary French romantic writer. Her creation has expanded the feminine characteristics of romantic literature, especially in writing female novels and pastoral novels. Conro and Magic Marsh are both typical romantic novels, full of poetic and sincere feelings. She is also Chopin's favorite woman in his life. Alfred de Muse (18 10- 1857), a young poet who had a brief love affair with George Thornton, was a new force in French poetry during this period. Poems for Four Nights were a dream. The novel Confessions of a Century introduces the concept of "century disease" into romantic novel creation for the first time. Gé rard de Naival's lyric poems (1808- 1855) are fantastic and profound, and have a profound influence on modern poetry in the 20th century. Dumas (1802- 1870) wrote many historical novels, and three musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo pushed the development of popular novels to the extreme.

Romantic literature came into being at the end of18th century and reached its peak in the first half of19th century. It is one of the most important ideological trends in modern western literature. Longitudinally, romantic literature is the inheritance and development of humanism in the Renaissance, and it is also a powerful refutation of rigid French classicism. Horizontally, romantic literature and subsequent realism * * * constitute two systems of modern western literature, which brought the prosperity of western literature in the19th century and had a far-reaching impact on later modernism and post-modernism literature.