Abstract
Industrialism, expansion, profit, production and individualism were the feelings which took place during the period of the Industrial Revolution in England. People in Great Britain were led by the streams of progress, but the modernizations in technology had some important consequences on people: especially on the simplest kind of people, poorer people, those who lived in the country. While bourgeoisie and gentry only wanted to make profits and getting richer; while new classes of people were created, like merchants and tradesmen; farmers and country workers knew radical life transformations. Such changes induced a new form of literature, created by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This new movement in poetry, called Romanticism, was illustrated, at the time, by the collection of poems called Lyrical Ballads. An analysis will be made to determine in what extends this new genre in art was representing some specificities of Great Britain in the beginning of the nineteenth century. We are going to see in a first part that the topics of Romantic poetry were focusing on very simple people and very simple subjects.
