1785–1830: The Romantic Period/Romanticism
British Literature
William Blake, William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Jane Austen
Lord Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Keats
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
American Literature
Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle
William Cullen Bryant: Thanatopsis
James Fenimore Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans
Nathaniel Hawthorne (often included in this period), see below.