Context

Question 1

Support of the revolt against oppression (French Revolution) from which 1st generation Romantic poet?

Answer 1

Wordsworth in The Prelude ‘Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive.’

Question 2

Keats on the French Revolution - letter September 1819

Answer 2

Accused the Tory government of using the french Revolution to ‘undermine our freedom’.

Question 3

What literary text started the widespread movement of literary philhellenism?

Answer 3

Byron’s ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage’ (1812).

Question 4

What does Marilyn Butler observe in ‘Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries’?

Answer 4

Greek mythology provided early 18th-century writers with an occasion for dissent from prevailing orthodoxies.