List: Romantic poets

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  • Rashad "Boulder Fist" Hashim is a famous Sudanese Romantic Poet. Born in England, London 1902, Hashim was influenced by a number of poets such as John Keats with whom he also shared a similar sense of melancholy. He was also known for being a strong supporter of the Liberal Democrats.
  • Alexandru Hrisoverghi (February 27, 1811 – March 9, 1837) was a Moldavian Romanian-language poet and translator, whose work was influenced by Romanticism. The author of few lyrical works, he was foremost noted for his association with political and intellectual figures such as Mihail Kogălniceanu, Costache Negruzzi, Vasile Cârlova, and Grigore Crupenschi.
  • Grigol Orbeliani (Jambakur-Orbeliani) (October 2, 1804 - March 21, 1883) was a Georgian Romanticist poet and soldier in the Imperial Russian service. One of the most colorful figures in the 19th-century Georgian culture, Orbeliani is noted for his patriotic poetry, lamenting Georgia's lost past and independent monarchy. At the same time, he spent decades in the Russian military service, rising through ranks to highest positions in the imperial administration in the Caucasus.
  • Pantazi Ghica (also known under the pen names Tapazin, G. Pantazi, and Ghaki; March 15, 1831-July 17, 1882) was a Wallachian-born Romanian politician and lawyer, also known as a dramatist, poet, short story writer, and literary critic. A prominent representative of the liberal current, he was the younger brother and lifelong collaborator of Ion Ghica, who served as Prime Minister of the Romanian Kingdom in 1866-1867 and again in 1870-1871.
  • Charles Lloyd (12 February 1775 – 16 January 1839), poet, was a friend of Charles Lamb, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Thomas de Quincey. His best-known poem is "Desultory Thoughts in London".
  • Wincenty Pol (20 April 1807 - 2 December 1872) was a Polish poet and geographer.
  • Ernst Friedrich Georg Otto Freiherr von der Malsburg (June 23, 1786 – September 20, 1824) was a German statesman, poet, and translator. Von der Malsburg was born in Hanau. Ernst Friedrich was the younger son of Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von der Malsburg by his wife Elizabeth Leigh, daughter of Sir Egerton Leigh, 1st Bart. His father, Lieutenant-Colonel of the Infanterie-Regiment von der Malsburg, commanded his troops as allies of George III in the American War of Independence.
  • Tomasz Padura (born in 1801 - d.1871 in Ukraine)- An influential Polish Romantic poet of the so-called Ukrainian school (a group of Polish writers and poets who deliberately chose to write in Ukrainian), musician-torbanist, and composer-songwriter. Padura's ballad of Ustym Karmaliuk "Beyond Siberia The Sun Rises" (За Сибіром Сонце Сходить) achieved extraordinary popularity in 19th century Ukraine, and became a folk-song.
  • Prince Alexander Orbeliani (Jambakur-Orbeliani) (May 24, 1802 – December 28, 1869) was a Georgian Romanticist poet, playwright, journalist and historian, of the noble House of Orbeliani. Alexander Orbeliani was born in Tiflis (Tbilisi), then under Imperial Russian rule, to Prince Vakhtang Orbeliani and Princess Tekle Bagrationi, a beloved daughter of the penultimate Georgian king Erekle II. In 1817, he joined the Russian military service.
  • George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, later George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was a British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. Amongst Byron's best-known works are the brief poems She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, and So, we'll go no more a roving, in addition to the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan.
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  • Chauncy Hare Townshend (10 April 1798, Godalming, Surrey – 25 February 1868) was a 19th century English poet, clergyman, mesmerist, collector, and hypochondriac. He is mostly remembered for bequeathing his collections to the South Kensington Museum and the Wisbech & Fenland Museum in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. He was born Chauncy Hare Townsend, without an 'h' in his surname, but added one upon inheriting. For simplicity, this article uses the version with it.
  • Julia Kristina Nyberg (née Svärdström; 17 November 1784 – 16 April 1854), was a Swedish poet and songwriter. Nyberg grew up as the adoptive daughter of a mill owner, named Adlerwald, in the parish of Skultuna in Västmanland County. She wrote the vast majority of her works under the pseudonym Euphrosyne.
  • Rayko Ivanov (Yoanov) Zhinzifov, born Ksenofont Dzindzifi (Ксенофонт Дзиндзифи) was a Bulgarian National Revival poet and translator from Macedonia who spent most of his life in the Russian Empire. Zhinsifov was born in 1839 in Veles in the Ottoman Empire, today in the Republic of Macedonia.
  • James Love was the pseudonym of British poet, playwright and actor James Dance. He is famous within sporting circles for his Cricket: An Heroic Poem, whose line "The strokes re-echo o'er the spacious ground" has been quoted in the Oxford English Dictionary. Its subtitle reads thus: Illustrated with the Critical Observations of Scriblerus Maximus. To which is Added an Epilogue, Call'd Bucks Have at Ye All. Spoken by Mr.
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded among the finest lyric poets in the English language. He is most famous for such classic anthology verse works as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, and The Masque of Anarchy, which are among the most popular and critically acclaimed poems in the English language.
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  • Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796) (also known as Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, the Bard of Ayrshire and in Scotland as simply The Bard) was a Scottish poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and a "light" Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland.
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