What are the characteristic features of poetry during the Romantic Movement?

Three chief
characteristics of Romantic poetry during the Romantic movement of the late eighteenth and early
nineteenth century are the following:

An emphasis on
emotion: The Romantics are best known for writing lyrical poetry, verse which
expresses strong emotions. Romantics are poets and writers who primarily want you to know how
they feel. They are less interested in the rational than the emotional, the
spiritual, and the fanciful. As Wordsworth wrote in his Preface to Lyrical
Ballads:

poetry is the spontaneous overflow of
powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity

An emphasis on the common person: the
Romantics wanted to show ordinary, everyday people in the most positive light possible. This was
a departure, as much of poetry up until this point focused on aristocrats and famous
peoplegenerals, kings, and heroes. Common farm people and laborers, when included, were often
treated with contempt or ridicule. Poets like Wordsworth, however, showed the virtues in the
simple and honest lives of the poor. Today, Wordsworth would write poems showing the beauty and
wisdom of those we might write off as rednecks or trailer trash.

An emphasis on nature: the Romantics admired nature. They
most often found it purer than civilization. They saw it as a way humans could be in touch with
and renewed by the divine force that created the natural world and which human society had
corrupted. Much of their poetry exalts the beauties and the spiritual aspects of the natural
world.