sofeachindividual'smind.Romanticismactuallyconstitutesachangeofdirectionfromattentiontotheouter.b.ovelItisatypeofromanticfictionthatpredominatedinthelate18thcenturyandwasonephaseoftheRomanticmovement,itsprincipalelementsareviolence,horrorandthesupernatural,whichstronglyappealtothereader'semotion.Withitsdescriptionsofthedark,irrationalsideofhumannature,theGothicformhasexertedagreatinfluenceoverthewriteroftheRomanticperiod.WorkslikeTheMysteriesofUdolpho(1794)byAnnRadcliffeandFrankenstein(1818)byMaryShelleyaretypicalGothicromance.(2)CharacteristicsofRomanticliteratureinEnglishhistory.TheRomanticperiodisanageofpoetryBlake,Wordsworth,Coleridge,Byron,ShelleyandKeatsarethemajorRomanticpoets.Theystartedarebellionagainsttheneoclassicalliterature,whichwaslaterregardedasthepoeticrevolution.Wordsworth