Royal Mail invites everyone to delve into the domain of Romantic Poetry with ten new stamps. Each stamp features a quote from some of poetry’s most iconic verse. The word ‘romantic’ has a much wider meaning than ‘love’ to define the poets of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. They had a sense of responsibility to society: they felt it was their duty to use their poetry to inform and inspire others, and even to change society.
The ten stamps introduced by Royal Mail feature the work of the key Romantic poets – John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, Sir Walter Scott, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Lord Byron, and two female poets – Mary Robinson and Letiticia Landon, who in their time were extremely popular, and among the first women to support themselves solely by writing. The target thematic audience for these stamps is those who have a keen or passing interest in literature, poetry, creative writing and specifically Romanticism, as well as admirers of Wordsworth and fellow writers / poets.
See also other interesting stamps devoted to famous writers.
