John Keats (1795–1821) was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his work having been in publication for only four years before his death.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is regarded by critics as one of the finest lyric poets in the English language.

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824), commonly known as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement.

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) was an English poet and one of the founders of the Romantic movement.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17727ndash;1834) was an English poet and one of the founders of the Romantic movement.