English Romantic Period Flashcards
Romanticism is an __ as well as a literary phenomenon. The word “romantic” dates from the middle of the __ (wright). “Nor, before the eighteenth century, is there … imaginatively interpretive fellow-feeling for an animal…” (wright). In writing = personification.
- historical
- 17th century
Although our text considers the Romantic Period to be from ___ (publication of ___) to __. Many scholars enlarge the coverage to from about ___. In America, where the Industrial Revolution developed later, the period of Romantic literature lingered, to include the ___ ( the so-called trancendentalists. Especially Emerson and Thoreau; and also Hawthorne, Melville, etal) and, sometimes Whitman and Poe.
- 1798
- Lyrical Ballads
- 1832
- 1750-1850
- Concord Group
Romanticism was an artistic revolt against the __. In Britain, farmer workers and other country folk were displaced by sheep, many arriving in the largest, dirtiest city in the world, London. There, men, women, and children labored hours, six days a week, in dark, dirty, and dangerous factories. Nostalgia for country life, with its relative brightness, cleanliness, and safety, inspired some romantic literature. The new industrial militarism of the state with its ___ and __ was not glorious to romantics. The church disappointed romantics with its implicit approval of industry’s exploitation of workers; some romantic (the young Woodsworth) turned to ___.
- Industrial Revolution and the Agricultural Revolution
- impressment (forced draft)
- mass- uniformity
- pantheism
A romantic disdains the ___ and __, in favor of the artists had fashioned and unique.
- factory-made
- mass-produced
The ideal romantic setting is ___or early summer, with wildflowers, bird song, and a solitary maiden. [although, “ the favorite season is ___” (wright). According to the crictics]
- wooded steam side in the spring( ee Cummings capitalization)
- autumn
Representative of the voice of the poet, the “music” of Romanticism, is the flute-like or violin-like song of the ___. In America, this became the wood (Thoreau) or hermit (Whitman) thrush.
-nightingale
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A horse on the cover of Romantic volume of verse (as it does today on a romance novel) represents the __.
-passions
As a writing movement, Romanticism (at least, at first) was __. Blake said, “ to generalize is to be an idiot; to particularize is the alone distinction of merit” this remains a standard for good writing.
-specific or concrete
The “first generation of Romantics” are __: the “second generation” are __.
- Blake, Wordworth, and Coleridge
- Byron, Shelley, and Keats
The bible of romanticism is___.
Lyrical ballads
A negative of Romanticism was the later tendency for its mysticism to approach maudlin superstition. “Poetry of Romantic decadence”(wright)– nightmarish, grotesque, macabre– started with ___ and culminated with American Poe. Removed from oderly, rational, natural world– from classical reason– such works damaged and discredited Romanticisms reputation.
-Keats
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The publication of ___ in 1848, signaled the end of the Romantic Period ( wright).
-The Communist Manifesto
An example of modern poet considered “romantic” is __. Another is Emily Dickinson in her findings universal inspiration within the confines of her garden (“___”), as Blake in “__”. A contemporary “Romantic” poetry is Wendell Berry (“”).
- Robert Frost (“A Lone Striker”)
- A Route Evanescence
- a grain of sand
- Some Further Words
“Lines composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” by
Wordsworth
“Strange fits of passion have I known” by
Wordsworth
“She dwelt with amount the untrodden ways” by
Wordsworth
” a slumber did my spirit seal” by
Wordsworth
“London,1802” by
Wordsworth
