What are the main features of romantic poetry?

Romantic poets tend to
focus on the experience
and feelings of the individual, the revelation of essential truth, and
the
sublimity of nature. Romantics believed in the importance of the individual's emotions
and
especially emphasized the representation and production of intense
emotions. Their ideas often
ran counter to those espoused by Enlightenment
philosophers who focused on empiricism and the
rationalism. The Romantics
privileged emotion over logic because they felt that feelings were
more
fundamental to the human experience than logic; we must be taught to reason but not
to
feel. They also wrote quite a bit about nature and natural objects as well
as the wealth and
truths revealed by nature and its effects on the
individual. Solitude also often plays a vital
role, as the revelation of
truths in nature most often occurs when the individual is alone with
his or
her own thoughts and feelings.