- Importance of emotion, imagination, and intuition
- Celebration of the individual
- Emphasis on the natural world
- Appreciation of folk culture
- Interest in the exotic and the supernatural
- Social and political reform
- Rejection of the Enlightenment’s emphasis on reason and logic
Writings:
- Lyric poems expressing personal feelings and experiences
- Narratives exploring the human condition and moral dilemmas
- Poems about the beauty of nature
- Poems celebrating common people
- Poems inspired by legends, myths, and folklore
- Poems with exotic settings
- Poems about dreams, visions, and the supernatural
- Poems calling for social and political change