English literary romanticism was launched by the writings of

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Wordsworth and Coleridge are widely considered to be the founders of the English literary romanticism movement with the publication of the Lyrical Ballads in 1798. While Mary and Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and Jane Austen all contributed to the romantic era in their own ways, they were not the primary launchers of the movement. Turner and Constable were visual artists who were part of the romantic movement, but they were not writers.

English Literary Romanticism Was Launched by the Writings of