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Romantic Era Flashcards

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Romantic/Romance origin

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Medieval tales of Knights and their lady in the roman language: Latin

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2
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Two revolutions helped the Romantic Era

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the French Revolution

The Industrial Revolution

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Reason vs Romantics

Reason and Judgement

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Imagination and Emotion

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4
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Reason vs Romantics

Universal experience

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Personal Experience

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5
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Reason vs Romantics

Value of society

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Value of the individual human being

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Reason vs Romantics

Value of rules

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Value of freedom

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The 5 main romantic themes of English literature (5 i’s)

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Intuition 
Imagination
Individualism
Inspiration
Idealism
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8
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“truth of the heart” is more trust worthy than reason

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Intuition

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9
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To express experience than universal principles

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Imagination

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10
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humans are the centre and god is in the centre of humans

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individualism

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11
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Romantic writers find this in nature

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Inspiration

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12
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Aspire to the minimum

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Idealism

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13
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Romantic Writers stressed

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Emotion

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14
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Not romantic love

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Freely imaginative fiction

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15
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Created the Byronic Hero

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Lord Byron

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16
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Atheist. Romantic

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Percy B. Shelly

17
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Created songs of experience and innocence

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William Blake

18
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His work received little attention during his life time

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William Blake

19
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Had rumours of incest with his half sister

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Lord Byron

20
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Anti hero

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Byronic Hero

21
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Was run out of England

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Lord Byron

22
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Went to oxford and didn’t work. (Gentleman)

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Percy B. Shelly

23
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Married Mary Shelly (Frankenstein)

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Percy B. Shelly

24
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Wrote about his wife’s cousin at his funeral

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“She walks in Beauty”

Lord Byron

25
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Lord Byron ALSO KNOWN AS

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George Gordon Byron

26
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Was against the industrial revolution

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William Blake

27
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Drowned in a boat

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Percy Shelly

28
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Born with a club foot

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Lord Byron

29
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“Bright star, Would I were steadfast as thou art”

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John Keats

30
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The tyger and the lamb

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William Blake

31
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Had many love affairs and bisexual relationships

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Lord Byron

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