English Romantic Period

Question 0

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.

Answer 0

• historical

- 17th century

Question 1

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.

Answer 1

• 1798
• Lyrical Ballads
• 1832
• 1750-1850
• Concord Group

Question 2

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 ___.

Answer 2

• Industrial Revolution and the Agricultural Revolution
• impressment (forced draft)
• mass- uniformity
• pantheism

Question 3

A romantic disdains the ___ and __, in favor of the artists had fashioned and unique.

Answer 3

• factory-made

- mass-produced

Question 4

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]

Answer 4

• wooded steam side in the spring( ee Cummings capitalization)
• autumn

Question 5

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.

Answer 5

-nightingale

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Question 6

A horse on the cover of Romantic volume of verse (as it does today on a romance novel) represents the __.

Answer 6

-passions

Question 7

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.

Answer 7

-specific or concrete

Question 8

The “first generation of Romantics” are __: the “second generation” are __.

Answer 8

• Blake, Wordworth, and Coleridge

- Byron, Shelley, and Keats

Question 9

The bible of romanticism is___.

Answer 9

Lyrical ballads

Question 10

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.

Answer 10

-Keats

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Question 11

The publication of ___ in 1848, signaled the end of the Romantic Period ( wright).

Answer 11

-The Communist Manifesto

Question 12

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 (“”).

Answer 12

• Robert Frost (“A Lone Striker”)
• A Route Evanescence
• a grain of sand
• Some Further Words

Question 13

“Lines composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” by

Answer 13

Wordsworth

Question 14

“Strange fits of passion have I known” by

Answer 14

Wordsworth

Question 15

“She dwelt with amount the untrodden ways” by

Answer 15

Wordsworth

Question 16

” a slumber did my spirit seal” by

Answer 16

Wordsworth

Question 17

“London,1802” by

Answer 17

Wordsworth

Question 18

” I wandered lonely as a cloud” by

Answer 18

Wordsworth

Question 19

“Composed upon Westminster bridge” by

Answer 19

Wordsworth

Question 20

“Solitary reaper” by

Answer 20

Wordsworth

Question 21

“Rainbow” by

Answer 21

Wordsworth

Question 22

“Sonnet xxxiii” by

Answer 22

Wordsworth

Question 23

“Lines written in early spring “ by

Answer 23

Wordsworth

Question 24

” expostulation and reply” by

Answer 24

Wordsworth

Question 25

” tables turned” by

Answer 25

Wordsworth

Question 26

” ode: imitations of immortality” by

Answer 26

Wordsworth

Question 27

“Kubla Khan” by

Answer 27

Coleridge

Question 28

“Rime of the Ancient mariner” by

Answer 28

Coleridge

Question 29

“The raven” by

Answer 29

Coleridge

Question 30

“The lime tree bower, my prison”

Answer 30

Coleridge

Question 31

“Ode to west wind” by

Answer 31

Shelley

Question 32

“To a skylark” by

Answer 32

Shelley

Question 33

“England in 1819” by

Answer 33

Shelley

Question 34

“Ozymandias” by

Answer 34

Shelley

Question 35

“Chapman’s Homer” by

Answer 35

Keats

Question 36

“Bright star” by

Answer 36

Keats

Question 37

“When I have fears” by

Answer 37

Keats

Question 38

“La belle dame sans merci” by

Answer 38

Keats

Question 39

“Ode to a nightingale” by

Answer 39

Keats

Question 40

“Ode on Grencian urn” by

Answer 40

Keats

Question 41

” to autumn”

Answer 41

Keats

Question 42

“A lone striker” by

Answer 42

Frost (modern)

Question 43

“A route of evanescence”

Answer 43

Dickinson (modern)

Question 44

“Some further words” by

Answer 44

Berry ( modern & contemporary)

Question 45

“Listening point” by

Answer 45

Prose : Olson (modern)