Romantacism Test Flashcards
Key themes
- imagination
- intuition
- idealism
- individualism
Romanticism
A literary movement, a profound shift in sensibility
1775-1783
American revolution
1789-1815
French Revolution
1798
Publication of lyrical ballads
1798-1832
Romantic period
1812
Byron publishes childe Harold’s pilgrimage
1813
Jane Austen publishes pride and prejudice
1818
Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein
1819
Percy bysshe Shelley publishes ode to the west winds
1820
John Keats publishes ode on a Grecian urn
1832
First reform act extends voting rights and end of romantic age
Who’s the big six
- William Blake
- William Wordsworth
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- John Keats
- George Gordon, Lord Byron
Major themes in William Blake’s work
- Social justice
- changing society
- loss of innocence
Major themes in William Wordsworths works
The individual and nature
Major themes in Percy bysshe Shelley’s works
Nature, and the way nature interacts with us
Major themes in Robert burns works
Writing poetry for the common man
Major themes in John Keats works
How short life is
Major themes in lord Byron’s works
- love
- lust
- dark tinge
Major themes in Samuel Taylor coleridges works
- 3 stages
- death
- drug trips
- addictions
