Checkup 1 Flashcards
The ____________________ directly influenced British government and quickened social reform.
Wesleyan revivals
The literary revolution between 1789 and 1832 is known as the _______________.
Romantic Period
The reform movement culminated in 1832 with the ________________ that extended the right to vote to the middle class.
Reform Bill
The ____________________ formed the United Kingdom by uniting Ireland and Great Britain.
Second Act of Union
Unlike neoclassicists, romantics placed a high value on ____________________________.
human emotions
Romantics derived great inspiration from the literature of ____________________________.
the Middle Ages
Revived from the Elizabethan Age, ____________ made Romantic Period poetry sound like music and allowed the poet to express his personal thoughts and feelings.
lyricism
Sonnets have fourteen lines in two major parts, the ______________________________.
octave and the sestet
Wrote “Tiger, tiger, burning bright In the forest of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” and author of “The Lamb” and other poems with theological impact
William Blake
wrote a poem about daffodils called “I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud”, used everyday language to make everyday events special, poet of nature, the poet laureate of England
William Wordsworth
famous for his ballads and supernatural themes and authored the lines “Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge