British Romantic test Flashcards
Wrote Lyrical Ballads
Williams Wordsworth with Samuel Coleridge
Was addicted to Laudanum
Samuel Coleridge
Launched the Romantic literary movement
Wordsworth
Brought Shakespeare back from obscurity
Coleridge
Wrote Songs of Experience
William Blake
Wife thought he was a genius
William Blake
Known as an outcast because of his atheism
Percy Shelley
Painted at an early age
William Blake
married Mary and died at age 29
Percy Shelley
A greek national hero
Lord Byron
Had a wide array of pets
Lord Byron
The fourth earl of Oxford
Horace Walpole
Wrote the Castle of Otranto
Horace Walpole
His father was trampled to death when he was eight
John Keats
Famous Scottish poet and lyricist
Robert Burns
Fourth stanza reflects a more older, sophisticated, deeper understanding of nature
“Tintern Abbey” by Wordsworth
Discusses what anger does to a man if not dealt with
“A Poison Tree” by William Blake
focuses on the wind’s control over the rest of nature
“Ode to the West Wind” by Percy Shelley
Was written to be set to music
“She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron
A romantic poem about the lack of romance
Don Juan by Lord Byron
A poem about plans being interrupted
“Ode to a Mouse” by Robert Burns
There is no passage of time in an idealized world
“Ode to a Grecian Urn” by John Keats
It is believed to be a tale of sin and christian redemption
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Coleridge
Takes place in a church
“Ode to a Mouse” by Robert Burns
Asks the question: Who made you?
“The Tyger” and “The Lamb”
Name three of the dominant romantic poets
William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Coleridge
4 characteristics of a byronic hero
An outcast, troubled past, cynical, and has an ability to adapt
Typical setting of the gothic romantic movement
Dark and gloomy castles
The overall message of “Ode to a Grecian Urn”
“Beauty is in truth, truth is in beauty,- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”
economic philosophy meaning let the people do as they please
Laissez Faire
A long lyric poem written in honor of a person or event
Ode
an arrangement of triplets, often in iambic pentameter
terza rima
a brooding figure whose ironic attitude and hidden sorrow add to his charm
Byronic hero
relating to goths or their extinct East Germanic Language, which provides the earliest manuscript evidence of Germanic language
Gothic
knowledge gained through tradition
lore
an extended communication dealing with some particular topic
discourse
sounds that imitate sound words
onomatopaeio
repeated vowel sounds
assonance
repeated consonant and sounds
consonance
three things that describe romantic poetry
the poems usually present imaginative experiences, purpose was to create new realities in the mind and in poetry, Romantic poets used unadorned language to explore the significance of the commonplace
