Chapter 6: The Romantic Age Flashcards
The greatest mind of the Romantic Movement.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
An informal and more personal essay recognized by its intimate style; light humor or wit; emphasis on individual tastes, experiences, and opinions; and the wide range of subject matter from everyday life.
Familiar essay
Because Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey lived in the Lake District of northern England, what have they been called?
Lake Poets
The greatest English poet since Milton who initiated the Romantic Movement in England and who has been called the world’s supreme poet.
William Wordsworth
The theme of what poem is the conflict between the beauty of nature and the depravity of man? “Have I not reason to lament / What man has made of man?”
“Lines Written in Early Spring” by William Wordsworth
The theme of what poem is the power of Nature to impress our minds?
“Expostulation and Reply” by William Wordsworth
The theme of what poem is that Nature is a better teacher than man?
“The Tables Turned” by William Wordsworth
Poems characterized by sober meditations of death.
Elegiac poems
What poem reflects on the death of Lucy?
“A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal” by William Wordsworth
One of the most famous poems in English literature: “The Rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is Rose.”
“Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood” by William Wordsworth
In what poem does Wordsworth reflect on the relationship between Christian morality and the rise and fall of nations? “Even so doth God protect us if we be / Virtuous and wise.”
“Near Dover, September 1802”
In what poem does Wordsworth deplore the artificial and idolatrous life that was typical of the eighteenth century?
“Written in London, September 1802”
In what poem does Wordsworth celebrate John Milton?
“London, 1802”
In what poem does Wordsworth strongly advocate upholding the faith and morals of Milton and the Puritans? “We must be free or die.”
“It Is Not to Be Thought of”
The greatest of all English literary ballads.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Imitation by a modern poet of the early English and Scottish popular ballads.
Art ballad
One of the finest English poet-critics; wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and “Kubla Khan.” One of the most important of all the Romantic ideas about literature was his notion of “willing suspension of disbelief.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What poet, the third of the trio of Lake Poets, wrote “The Battle of Blenheim,” which expresses confusion about the necessity of war?
Robert Southey
Who wrote Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, “When We Two Parted,” “The Prisoner of Chillon: A Fable,” “Maid of Athens, Ere We Part,” and “On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year”?
George Gordon, Lord Bryon
Considered to be the greatest English lyricist; wrote “To Wordsworth,” “To a Skylark,” “Ode to the West Wind,” “Love’s Philosophy,” “A Dirge,” and “Mutability.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The only major Romantic poet of humble birth; wrote “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer,” “La Belle Dame sans Merci,” “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” and “When I Have Fears.”
John Keats
The leader of the “Cockney School” of poetry; wrote “Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel” and “Rondeau.”
Leigh Hunt
Irish poet and musician who wrote “The Harp That Once thro’ Tara’s Halls,” “‘Tis the Last Rose of Summer,” “As Down in the Sunless Retreats,” and “Come, Ye Disconsolate”; his main poetic achievement was the introduction of the colloquial style in his poems.
Thomas Moore
The kind of metaphor that uses something associated or related for the thing actually meant.
Metonymy
An elaborate French verse form which usually has fifteen lines.
Rondeau
Unique type of Romantic character who was a rebellious, brooding, proud man.
“Byronic hero”
Creator of the historical novel who wrote “My Native Land,” “The Monastery,” “Ivanhoe and Rebecca” from Ivanhoe, and his three greatest poems: The Lady of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and The Lady of the Lake.
Sir Walter Scott
One of the first novelists to chronicle the lives of everyday, commonplace people; her best novel Pride and Prejudice is the first significant novel to deal with an entire family.
Jane Austen
Best remembered for his familiar essays; wrote Tales from Shakespeare, his first successful literary venture, and “Dream Children: A Reverie.”
Charles Lamb
Leader of the movement to make the literary hymn popular; wrote “Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning,” “From Greenland’s Icy Mountains,” and “God That Madest Earth and Heaven” and compiled the first literary hymnal.
Reginald Heber
Who is known for his brilliant scholarship, his literary and musical ability, and his generous and gracious spirit and wrote “Praise the Savior”?
Thomas Kelly
Who wrote “Go to Dark Gethsemane” and “Prayer Is the Soul’s Sincere Desire”?
James Montgomery
Anglican minister who wrote “Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven,” “Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken,” and and “Abide with Me”?
Henry Francis Lyte
The most famous ode in English whose theme is that through art the longing for permanence in a world of change can be satisfied.
“Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats
