Compare poetry from the Romantic Era to modern poetry.

The
Romantic period is usually described as running from the late eighteenth-century through the
beginning of the reign of Queen Victoria. The major Romantic poets include Keats, Shelley,
Byron, Coleridge, Blake, and Wordsworth. These poets were generally quite enthusiastic about
nature, inspired by the French Revolution, religiously unorthodox, and, to a degree, concerned
with poetry that expresses emotion and emulates natural speech, rather than following literary
convention. As opposed to the Latin influences of the Augustans, several Romantic poets were
very much influenced by Greek poetry. Although Romantics (with the exception of Byron) tended to
reject the heroic , they generally stayed within regular verse forms. Although, the
"ode" tended to be somewhat flexible, with irregular line lengths.

Modernist poetry occupies the period between the end of Victoria's reign and World War II. Some
of the leading modernist poets in English are W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound,...