Romantic Era/Timelines

A chronological list of some of the influential or landmark works of the Romantic Era.

1773 Goethe: Götz von Berlichingen (play)

1774 Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther (novel)

1781 Schiller: The Robbers (play)

1798 Wordsworth and Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads (poems)

1803 Beethoven: Eroica symphony

1805 Scott: The Lay of the Last Minstrel (narrative poem)

1808 Goethe: "Faust" (part 1) (play)

1812 Byron: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (poem)

1818 Mary Shelley: Frankenstein (novel)

1818 Géricault: The Raft of the Medusa (painting)

1820 P.B. Shelley: Prometheus Unbound (narrative poem)

1822 Delacroix: Dante and Virgil in Hell (painting)

1827 Hugo: Cromwell (play, but particularly its Preface)

1830 Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (symphony)

1832 Goethe: Faust part 2 (play)