Romantic era Flashcards
John Keats
● Painted out beauty in ordinary objects
● Greatest work “Ode On A Grecian Urn”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
● Changed name from Hathorne to Hawthorne after college ● Greatest Work “Scarlet Letter” ●broke leg influenced him to write ●write bio for frank pierces campaign ● writer of dark romanticism
Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe
● Converted from freethinking to evangelical Christianity
● Greatest work “Faust”
● “Father of romantic writing”
Walt Whitman
● Spent entire life writing “Leaves of Grass”
● Final addition of “LOG” nicknamed “Deathbed Edition”
Mary Shelley
● Greatest work “Frankenstein”
● Popularized “Mad Scientist” in literature
William Blake
● Bible was a big influence
● Greatest work “Songs of Innocence”
Edgar Allan Poe
● Writes on the back of John Allan’s business papers
● Greatest Work ‘The Raven”
Frederic Chopin
● George Sand was the nickname of his girlfriend
● Body buried in Paris and heart buried in the Holy Cross church in Warsaw
William Wordsworth
● Greatest work “Lyrical Ballads”
● Lost two children to Tuberculosis
● I wandered lonely as a cloud
Beethoven
● Mother died from Tuberculosis
● Most of his works were made while he was fully deaf
● Joesph Hayon was his musical man tour specifically on the piano
Jack The Ripper
● Took left kidney from Katherine Eddows ● Shawl was how they identified Aaron Kosminski ●got media to notice poor ● living conditions in east London ● major criminal during era
