List of romantics

List of romantics

Brazilian Romanticism

• Joaquim Manuel de Macedo (novelist)
• José de Alencar (novelist)
• Castro Alves (poet)
• Gonçalves Dias (poet)
• Fagundes Varela (poet)
• Casimiro de Abreu (poet)
• Álvares de Azevedo (poet, short-story writer)
• Bernardo Guimarães (novelist)
• Manuel Antônio de Almeida (novelist)
• Visconde de Taunay (painting)

Czech Romanticism

• Karel Hynek Mácha (poetry)
• Bedřich Smetana (music)
• Ján Kollár (fairy tales)
• Antonín Dvořák (music)

Dutch Romanticism

• Hildebrand / Nicolaas Beets (theologian, writer and poet)
• Willem Bilderdijk (poet)
• Jacob Geel (scholar, writer and critic)
• Multatuli / Eduard Douwes Dekker (writer)
• Mata Hari (courtesan)

English Romanticism

Estonian Romanticism

• Theodor Altermann (dramatist)
• Eduard Bornhöhe (writer)
• Villem Kapp (composer)
• Lydia Koidula (poet)
• Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (writer)
• Johann Köler (painter)
• Ants Lauter (dramatist)
• Artur Lemba (composer)
• Mihkel Lüdig (composer)
• Liina Reiman (dramatist)

French Romanticism

German Romanticism

Irish Romanticism

• Thomas Davis (poet, political theorist)
• John Field (composer)
• James Clarence Mangan (poet)
• Thomas Moore (poet)
• Padraic Pearse (poet, journalist, revolutionary)
• Oscar Wilde (poet and author)

Hungarian Romanticism

• Sándor Petőfi (poet)
• Mihály Vörösmarty (poet)
• Mór Jókai (writer)
• Imre Madách (dramatist)
• Franz Liszt (composer)

Italian Romanticism

• Aleardo Aleardi (poet)
• Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli (poet)
• Giovanni Berchet (poet)
• Ugo Foscolo (poet, novelist, political theorist)
• Francesco Hayez (painter)
• Giacomo Leopardi (poet, philosopher)
• Alessandro Manzoni (novelist)
• Giuseppe Mazzini (political theorist)
• Giuseppe Parini (poet, satirist)
• Ippolito Pindemonte (poet)
• Carlo Porta (poet)
• Giovanni Prati (poet, political theorist)

North American Romanticism

Norwegian Romanticism

• Henrik Wergeland (poet)
• Edvard Grieg (composer)
• Johann Sebastian Welhaven (poet)
• Adolph Tidemand (painter)
• Hans Gude (painter)
• Johan Christian Dahl (painter)

Polish Romanticism

Romanticism in Poland was followed, after the disastrous January 1863 Uprising, by a period known as Positivism.

Portuguese Romanticism

• Almeida Garrett (writer, poet, dramatist, journalist)
• Alexandre Herculano (writer, novelist, poet, journalist, historian)
• Camilo Castelo Branco (writer, novelist)
• João de Deus (writer, poet)
• António Feliciano de Castilho (writer, poet, translator)
• João de Lemos (writer, poet)
• José Vianna da Motta (composer and pianist)

Romanian Romanticism

Russian Romanticism

Serbian Romanticism

Slovene Romanticism

• France Prešeren (poet, considered one of the greatest of his time)
• Janez Vesel (poet)
• Matija Čop (historian and critic)
• Urban Jarnik (priest, poet, ethnographer and linguist)
• Anton Martin Slomšek (bishop, author and poet)
• Stanko Vraz (poet)
• Etbin Costa (author and politician)
• Hugo Wolf (composer)
• Janez Bleiweis (politician and journalist)
• Lovro Toman (nationalist and activist)
• Josipina Turnograjska (poet, composer and writer)
• Jernej Kopitar (philologist and linguist)
• Anton Karinger (painter, poet and soldier)

Scottish Romanticism

• Robert Burns (poet, considered a forerunner of British Romanticism along with Thomas Gray)
• Thomas Carlyle (essayist, historian and philosopher)
• James Macpherson (poet)
• Walter Scott (poet and historical novelist)
• George MacDonald (author and poet)
• John Duncan (painter)

Spanish Romanticism

Spanish Romanticism emerged in the years following the Napoleonic Wars, and reached its apex in the 1840s. Much of Spanish Romanticism serves as criticism of contemporary Spanish society, as seen directly in the Articulos de Costumbre (essays on customs/daily life) by Larra. Important literary works in Spanish Romanticism include Larra's essays (each article published separately until 1836), Don Juan Tenorio by Zorrilla (1844), El Estudiante de Salamanca (1840) and Poesias (1840) by Espronceda, and Rimas y Leyendas by Becquer (1871).

• Mariano Jose de Larra (essayist)
• José de Espronceda (poet, tale writer)
• Jose Zorrilla (playwright, poet)
• Gustavo Adolfo Becquer (poet, tale writer)
• Francisco Goya (painter)
• Antonio María Esquivel (painter)
• Eugenio Lucas Velázquez (painter)
• Federico de Madrazo (painter)

Welsh Romanticism

• Iolo Morganwg
• Felicia Hemans

Other countries

• Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger (Danish poet, playwright)
• Uładzimir Karatkievič (Belarusian writer)
• Jónas Hallgrímsson (Icelandic poet, political activist)
• Raden Saleh (Indonesian painter)
• Taras Shevchenko (Ukrainian poet)
• Esaias Tegnér (Swedish writer)
• Egide Charles Gustave Wappers (Belgian painter)
• Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (Swiss writer)
• Miguel Barnet (Cuban writer, novelist and ethnographer)^[1]

See also

• Romanticism
• Romantic poetry
• Romantic nationalism

Further reading

• The Ardis Anthology of Russian Romanticism; edited by Christine Rydel. Ann Arbor: Ardism 1984 ISBN 9780882337418

External links and references

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1. ^ [1] Archived February 14, 2007, at the Wayback Machine