The Romantic Generation

The website Hilobrow gives an eccentric take on the generations involved in the Romantic Movement.

The monomaniacs, 1795 - 1804:
http://hilobrow.com/2010/10/13/monomaniacs/

The autotilecs, 1805 - 1814:
http://hilobrow.com/2010/10/07/autotelics/

The retrogressivists, 1815 - 1824:
http://hilobrow.com/2010/09/20/retrogressivists/

The post-romantics, 1825 - 1833:
http://hilobrow.com/2010/07/13/post-romantics/

The original decadents, 1834 - 1843:
http://hilobrow.com/2010/07/06/original-decadents/

The prometheans, 1844 - 1853:
http://hilobrow.com/2009/07/28/the-prometheans/

The plutonians, 1854 - 1863:
http://hilobrow.com/2009/08/06/the-plutonians/

The anarcho-symbolists, 1864 - 1873:
http://hilobrow.com/2009/08/12/the-anarcho-symbolists/

The psychonauts, 1874 - 1883:
http://hilobrow.com/2009/08/19/the-psychonauts/

A lot to cover, but Romantics can be everything from William Blake to Victor Hugo

this is a great resource, they cover in detail various sub themes there. I will have to have a good look. And yes, romantics is a fairly broad theme.