A great number of people goes to the definition to learn anything about literary age. They remember only names of main and the most popular representatives of era and if someone wants to shine with his or her knowledge, they also learn a few names of main and world - famous literary works. But is it really something impressive when somebody responds only to the name of artist or his work ? I think it is not. Knowledge about literary age includes not only names but also works’ content, characteristic features and main principles which are followed by the era. To say about era people should or maybe even must understand work’s subject, about what it tells, what are the reasons and consequences of a story etc. Here is needed logically thinking, combining and associating many situations. So let’s explore the deeper notion of romanticism. Romanticism in England has taken root in the 17th century. William Shakespeare is considered to be a forerunner of English romanticism. He created a new theatre in opposition to the tastes of the aristocratic salons and provisions of poetics. Philosophical and ideological tenets of romanticism are shaped as a result of socio-political changes, caused by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars. Need to change the life of individual and collective was born on the ground of revolutionary, progressive ideas of Liberty, Equality and Brotherhood of all people. The romantics turned their attention on the inside of a human, his spirituality, feelings, emotions, as well as on the separation of the human individual, its diversity and individuality. The dominance over reason was also a rebellion against the prevailing reality and social standards. The method of cognition of the world had not become empiricism but the art. A typical, romantic, literary hero is a rebel motivated by big passion such as love or hatred. The hero is extraordinary, contradictory, rebelled against social norms, he fights in defense of the motherland. The most important feeling for romantic is love which is mostly unhappy and tragic but always all-encompassing and powerful. ,, Love does not want to make her pleasing or does not try at all for her own convenience; but cares about the welfare of others and builds a Heaven in the midst of a hellish despair.’’ William Blake