Discuss the impact of French Revolution on Romantics.Only the impacts.

Although the Romantics, in particular - the British poets
(Keats, Byron, Wordsworth, Blake, Shelley) did not believe themselves to be a 'Romantic
movement,' they were united in support for the French Revolution. The Romantics did hold
a lot of the same motivations (imagination and freedom of the individual) and because
they so believed in the freedom of the individual, they considered themselves as
different artists within a general ideology which was based on freedom, emotion, and
imagination of the individual. Since the French Revolution was an international
statement of displacing monarchy in favor of a more democratic (and in some cases,
socialist) system, they of course praised this move because the individual has more
power in those systems; particularly the democratic. Unfortunately the French Revolution
resulted in a dictatorship by 1799 which just replaced one owning class (aristocracy)
with another (military dictatorship). Eventually, Marxists would see this is as well
(Karl Marx writing around 1850). The Romantics did not like the way the revolution
turned out, but they did praise the general statement it made; a ‘beginning of the end’
of the inescapable hierarchies/oppression of the lower classes by monarchist rule. So,
despite the revolution’s problems, the end result was a progression in favor of
democracy and individualism; ideologically and in terms of
socio-economics.