This document discusses the Romantic era by exploring several Romantic artists including J.M.W. Turner, Francisco Goya, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Frederic Chopin, and Richard Wagner. It defines Romanticism as a movement that transformed poetry, novels, drama, paintings, sculpture and music between the 1770s-1800s in Europe. Key aspects of Romanticism included celebrating nature, spirit, imagination and the heroic individual. The document then provides brief biographies and discussions of selected works by each featured Romantic artist.