This article lists the most notable Romantic poets.

England

The six best-known English male authors are, in order of birth and with an example of their work:

  • William Blake – The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
  • William Wordsworth – The Prelude
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  • George Gordon, Lord Byron – Don Juan, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley – Prometheus Unbound, "Adonaïs", "Ode to the West Wind", "Ozymandias"
  • John Keats – Great Odes, "Hyperion", "Endymion"

Notable female poets include:

  • Felicia Dorothea Hemans
  • Anna Laetitia Barbauld
  • Charlotte Smith
  • Mary Robinson
  • Hannah More
  • Joanna Baillie

Major Romantic poets across the world

  • Albania: Jeronim de Rada, Naim Frashëri
  • Brazil: Álvares de Azevedo, Castro Alves, Casimiro de Abreu, Gonçalves Dias, Fagundes Varela, Junqueira Freire, Gonçalves de Magalhães
  • Bulgaria: Hristo Botev
  • Croatia: Petar Preradović
  • Czech Republic: Karel Hynek Macha
  • Denmark: N. F. S. Grundtvig, Adam Oehlenschläger, Hans Christian Andersen
  • France: Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Alphonse de Lamartine, Alfred de Vigny, Victor Hugo, Aloysius Bertrand, Gérard de Nerval, Théophile Gautier, Alfred de Musset, Charles Baudelaire
  • Georgia: Alexander Chavchavadze, Nikoloz Baratashvili, Grigol Orbeliani
  • Germany: Heinrich Heine, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Novalis, Friedrich Hölderlin, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Clemens Brentano, Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, Achim von Arnim
  • Hungary: Sándor Petőfi
  • India: Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Rabindranath Tagore, Satyendranath Dutta, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Jibanananda Das, Jaishankar Prasad, Suryakant Tripathi, Sumitranandan Pant, Mahadevi Verma
  • Italy: Giacomo Leopardi, Ugo Foscolo, Alessandro Manzoni, Vittorio Alfieri
  • Montenegro: Petar II Petrović Njegoš
  • Poland: Three Bards (Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki, Zygmunt Krasiński), Cyprian Kamil Norwid
  • Portugal: Alexandre Herculano, Almeida Garrett, António Feliciano de Castilho
  • Romania: Ion Heliade Radulescu, Dimitrie Bolintineanu, Vasile Alecsandri, Mihai Eminescu
  • Russia: Golden Age of Russian Poetry – Aleksandr Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Fyodor Tyutchev, Evgeny Baratynsky, Vasily Zhukovsky, Konstantin Batyushkov
  • Serbia: Branko Radičević, Đura Jakšić, Laza Kostić, Jovan Jovanović Zmaj
  • Slovakia: Janko Kráľ
  • Slovenia: France Prešeren
  • Spain: Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, José de Espronceda, Rosalía de Castro, José Zorrilla, Jacint Verdaguer
  • Ukraine: Taras Shevchenko
  • United States: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe

Minor Romantic poets

thumb|200px|right|[[Kornel Ujejski – monument in Szczecin (Poland) moved from Lviv in 1946]]

  • Brazil: Laurindo Rabelo, Sousândrade, José Bonifácio the Young, Aureliano Lessa, João Cardoso de Meneses e Sousa, Manuel de Araújo Porto-alegre
  • France: Gérard de Nerval, Leconte de Lisle, Aloysius Bertrand, Philothée O'Neddy (born: Théophile Dondey de Santeny)
  • Georgia: Grigol Orbeliani, Vakhtang Orbeliani
  • Germany: Gottfried August Bürger, Ludwig Tieck
  • Hungary: Mihály Vörösmarty
  • Iceland: Jónas Hallgrímsson
  • Italy: Silvio Pellico
  • Norway: Henrik Arnold Wergeland, Johan Sebastian Cammermeyer Welhaven
  • Pakistan: Jaun Elia, Parveen Shakir, Mohsin Naqvi
  • Poland: Kornel Ujejski, Antoni Malczewski, Tomasz Zan, Wincenty Pol, Seweryn Goszczyński, Władysław Syrokomla, Kazimierz Brodziński, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, Aleksander Fredro
  • Portugal: Almeida Garrett, Alexandre Herculano
  • Russia: Anton Delvig, Wilhelm Küchelbecker, Nikolay Gnedich
  • Serbia: Sima Milutinović Sarajlija
  • Slovakia: Andrej Sládkovič
  • Spain: Mariano José de Larra, Ramón de Campoamor
  • Sweden: Erik Johan Stagnelius
  • United States: William Cullen Bryant, Joseph Rodman Drake, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., George Sterling, John Neal