Romantic literature in English an English essayist, best known for his "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" (1821), an autobiographical account of his laudanum use and its effect on his life. William Hazlitt (1778–1830), friend of both Coleridge and Wordsworth, is another important essayist at this time, though today he is best known for his literary criticism, especially "Characters of Shakespeare's Plays" (1817–18). The second generation of Romantic poets includes Lord Byron (1788–1824), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) and John Keats (1795–1821). Byron, however, was still influenced by 18th-century satirists and was, perhaps the least 'romantic' of the three, preferring "the brilliant wit of Pope to
Romantic literature in English of Wales and its past had a far-reaching effect on the way in which the Welsh envisaged their own national identity during the nineteenth century". (See: Damian Walford Davies and Lynda Pratt, eds., "Wales and the Romantic Imagination" (University of Wales Press, 2007), James Prothero. "Wordsworth and Welsh Romanticism". Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. and Shawna Lichtenwalner, "Claiming Cambria: Invoking the Welsh in the Romantic Era" (University of Delaware Press, 2008). James Macpherson was the first Scottish poet to gain an international reputation. Claiming to have found poetry written by the ancient bard Ossian, he published "translations" that acquired international