Romantic literature in English nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self". George Crabbe (1754–1832) was an English poet who, during the Romantic period, wrote "closely observed, realistic portraits of rural life [...] in the heroic couplets of the Augustan age". Lord Byron who was an admirer of Crabbe's poetry, described him as "nature's sternest painter, yet the best". Modern critic Frank Whitehead has said that "Crabbe, in his verse tales in particular, is an important–indeed, a major–poet whose work has been and still is seriously undervalued." Crabbe's works include "The Village" (1783), "Poems" (1807), "The Borough" (1810), and his
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