The document provides an overview of the Romantic period in literature, focusing on key figures William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It discusses how Romanticism was a reaction against Enlightenment thinking, with a focus on nature, emotion, and the individual. It summarizes some of Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge's most important literary works, how they influenced the start of the Romantic period in literature, and their philosophies on poetry and the role of emotion and nature.