One of the first things taught in any English Lit class is that there’s a world of difference between romance and Romance.
While both are indeed literary genres, Romance with a capital ‘R’ was the one you were supposed to strive towards. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge spearheaded the intellectual movement spanning art, literature and music at the end of the 18th Century with the publication of Lyrical Ballads – a poetry collection dedicated to the sublime and beautiful power of the natural world.
