Romantic Poetry Essay Romantic poetry gets written during a period of wars and of revolutions, a period of immense changes where human society reorganizes itself at every level. The Romantic period usually refers to the half century from about 1780-1830. It was a time when Britain underwent the first industrial revolution and so emerged with an economy more radically constructed than in Britain’s history. Therefore it brought about different work habits, different leisure patterns, different prospects and even different sex lives for most people. At the same time the French Revolution and the American War of Independence changed the way those countries were govern and made old certa