The Romantic Era is a favorite of mine (and many of my students) and we will spend a while reading and studying the era's authors.  In fact, it is the last unit that is really given the time it deserves - all too soon the year has ended and though we will briefly glance over the Victorians and the Twentieth Century writers - our very last comes from the Romantics - Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" (the perfect poem to look back on the journey that we have taken together).  Though we usually read Jane Austen's Persuasion (earlier it was Pride and Prejudice) - that work, Romantic though it may be, is given its own berth on this website.  We begin with the pre-Romantic Thomas Gray,  and jump into the Romantics with Robert Burns.  Next we look at the unusual (and student favorite) writer and artist (and visionary) William Blake.  We move on to William Wordsworth (for a good deal of time), then his closest friend and coauthor of Lyrical Ballads, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.  After acting out "The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner" we make a leap and read the poems of Byron, Keats, and Shelley.  We could easily spend a year on this unit.