7) Romanticism

Question 1

What is the periodization of English Romanticism?

Answer 1

end of 18th, beginning of the 19th century

Question 2

What is in the centre of attention of Romanticism?

Answer 2

nature, attention to folk heritage, emphasis on emotions

Question 3

Who wrote Auld Lang Syne and collecter Scottish songs in general?

Answer 3

Robert Burns

Question 4

Who is the national poet of Scotland?

Answer 4

Robert Burns

Question 5

Who wrote Lyrical Ballads?

Answer 5

William Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge

Question 6

What are some poems from Lyrical Ballads?

Answer 6

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Lucy Gray, We Are Seven

Question 7

What are some of the main topics of Lyrical Ballads?

Answer 7

childhood, countryside, folk ballads and traditions, The Sublime and The Beautiful

Question 8

Name two poems written by William Wordsworth

Answer 8

We are Seven, I wandered lonely as a cloud

Question 9

William Wordsworth

Answer 9

Poems in Two Volumes, Poet Laureate, The Prelude

Question 10

When was We are Seven published?

Answer 10

in 1798

Question 11

What are the themes of We are Seven?

Answer 11

innocence, death, the perspective of children

Question 12

I wandered lonely as a cloud is also known as ________

Answer 12

Daffodils

Question 13

S. T. Coleridge

Answer 13

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Question 14

Lord Byron

Answer 14

Don Juan, Childe Harold

Question 15

Who is the Byronic hero?

Answer 15

a tragic figure of modern existential angst, mysterious crime in the background, his past is dark, would die in loneliness, contempt of conventional morality, romantic, lonely, tragic

Question 16

Name some examples of the Byronic hero

Answer 16

Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, Milton’s Satan, Ashab, Dorian Gray, Heathcliff

Question 17

Which work Lord Byron didn’t finish?

Answer 17

Don Juan

Question 18

Percy Bysshe Shelly

Answer 18

The Necessity of Atheism, A Defence of Poetry, Ode to the West Wind, Prometheus Unbound

Question 19

Which scandalous pamphlet written by P. B. Shelly caused his expulsion from Oxford?

Answer 19

The Necessity of Atheism

Question 20

How did P. Bysshe Shelly die?

Answer 20

while sailing

Question 21

Which P. B. Shelly’s work is a “closet drama” and what does it mean?

Answer 21

Prometheus Unbound, a drama that is not meant for stage

Question 22

John Keats

Answer 22

Ode to a Nightingale, Ode to a Grecian Urn

Question 23

William Blake the radical

Answer 23

wanted to turn England into republic, supported French and American Revolutions, shared beliefs with Mary Wollstonecraft on the equality of sexes

Question 24

William Blake

Answer 24

Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experince, The Prophecies (epic poems)

Question 25

What is the difference between Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience?

Answer 25

Innocence- focus on the innocence and wonder of childhood, joy, imagination, harmonious relationship with nature; Experience - themes of corruption, societal oppression, the loss of innocence, darker and more complex side of life

Question 26

Name some poems from Songs of Innocence

Answer 26

The Lnámb, The Chimney Sweeper, Infant Joy, Holy Thursday

Question 27

Name some poems from Songs of Experience

Answer 27

The Tyger, The Chimney Sweeper, The Sick Rose, Holy Thursday