English Romanticism Flashcards
When does the English Romanticism start and end?
English Romanticism was born in 1798 with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s “Lyrical Ballads” and it ends in 1832 with the first reform act and the beginning of the Victorian Age
What preceded English Romanticism?
It was preceded by “Protoromanticism”
Who is the main exponent of Protoromanticism?
The main exponent of Protoromanticism is William Blake
What’s Graveyard poetry?
It origins from the meditations on the transience of life in churchyards and cemeteries. The main example can be found in Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”.
This new kind of poetry blended Neoclassical forms with innovative subject matters
Who are the main exponents of the 1st Romantic Generation?
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
