Prelude Flashcards
1
Q
What year
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1799
2
Q
What was this beliefs within being a romantic poet
A
Romanticism: the sublime (excess, inarticulate emotion in response to awe of nature).
3
Q
What meaning did the romantics make of ice skating
A
Ice-skating was the new fashion but the English Romantics made it an escape into solitude.
4
Q
What did winter stand by to the romantics
A
Romantics connected winter with a counter-Enlightenment response, being a place of instinct, emotion and memory.
5
Q
What did Wandsworth think about poetry
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Wordsworth: “I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity”
