We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn`t even read Keats`s book when he gave him a copy.
There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.
We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.
