Percy Shelley: Hard-line Romantic The Romantic Period, which lasted about 45 years, gave birth to a new genre of literature, political thought, and it began a new era of history. Many authors contributed to the new ideals that characterize The Romantic Period. One author in particular was Percy Shelley who had written during The Romantic Period. The romantic ideals and characteristics can be found in the writings of Shelley. One of the ideologies of The Romantic …showed first 75 words of 1015 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1015 total…writings of Shelley but also to The Romantic Period and its ideologies. Subsequently it can be seen that The Romantic ideologies are present in the writings of Shelley and his contemporaries. This period of time during the early part of the nineteenth century many new ideals and thoughts left over from The Enlightenment Era were born by writers such as Shelley. Many of the Romantic ideals would cross over to help launch the Victorian Age.