r2.3 Common characteristics of the second generation of British Romantics Byron Shelley, and Keats They wrote swiftly, traveled widely, and died prematurely. They had a new intuition for the power of the wild landscape, and the spiritual correspondence between Man and Nature, 2021/2/232021/2/23 9 2. 3 Common characteristics of the second generation of British Romantics— Byron, Shelley, and Keats : They wrote swiftly, traveled widely, and died prematurely. They had a new intuition for the power of the wild landscape, and the spiritual correspondence between Man and Nature