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Romantic Period Flashcards

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What was a major factor in the communication revolution in England?

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Steam

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Who’s policy of laissez faire advocated the role of no inference in business by government?

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Adam Smith

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What does Kant’s philosophy of transcendentalism believe?

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God is said to be both within nature and mankind and is known as a World Spirit

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What is God known as in transcendentalism?

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The World Spirit

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What evaluates the goodness or badness of an action based on its production of happiness?

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Utilitarianism

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Christians would agree with the romantics on what?

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> Human reason has limitations
Institution has some validity
The individual has value

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Christians and Romantics differ in what belief?

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Their belief of God

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What are the different beliefs that Christians and Romantics hold on their concept of God?

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> Christians recognize the deity of an eternal, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient God

> Romantic transcendentalist consider God to be a World Spirit coexisting within His creation, both mankind and nature

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What is the common element in all areas of romantic thinking?

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Freedom from limits

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Who believed that human misery was caused not by sin but by society?

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Rousseau

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What are the characteristics of romantic poetry?

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> The poet himself as the primary subject
A highly individual perspective
An awe inspiring atmosphere

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The publication of what launched the second great era of English song?

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“Lyrical Ballads”

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Blake’s “London” condemns what institutions of society?

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> Religion
Government
Family

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In “London” Blake associated what with marriage by using the unexpected word hearse?

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Death and mourning, rather than joy and life

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According to Blake what constitutes mans salvation?

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Obeying ones imagination and feelings

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In his promotion of the idea that mankind is enslaved, who is Blake espousing?

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The French philosopher Rousseau

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In his work “The Garden of Love” why is it ironic that Blake included a graveyard?

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The garden is supposedly dedicated to love but it produces death

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What did Blake’s defiance of Gods law bring?

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Only his misery

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Who were the authors of “Lyrical Ballads”?

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William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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What is Wordsworth credited nature as being?

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The major formative influence on his writing

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What is the most poetic achievement of British romanticism?

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“The Prelude”

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What does Wordsworth use to describe the daffodils in “I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud”?

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A simile of stars

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What is Wordsworth’s definition of the poetic process?

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The depiction of poetry is “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”

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What did Wordsworth’s definition of he poetic process reflect about that romantics?

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Their dislike of control

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In “I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud” what and why did the poet redirect the attention to himself?

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Th theme/focus because it was a contribution to the literary revolution instigated by the romantics

26
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Accorded to Sonnet 1, what is the key difference between child and adult?

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The child communes with nature directly

27
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According to he speaker in “The World is too Much With Us” what is exchanged?

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Materialistic craving exchanged for our hearts

28
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Describe Lucy’s identity from “The Lucy Poems.”

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Has never been established and is probably fictional

29
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According to Coleridge what is important about the end of the poem?

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The immediate end of poetry is pleasure and the ultimate end is truth

30
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In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner what does the albatross bring?

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The directional change of south to north is the ships course

31
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What are associated with the Rime of the Ancient Mariner?

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Stillness
Heat
Silence

32
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How did the sailor punish the mariner?

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Hanging the dead albatross around his neck

33
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Why did the mariner shoot the albatross?

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He shot it without any provocation and offers no motive or justification

34
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Who are the two crew members of the spectre ship?

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Death and Life-In-Death

35
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What does Coleridge differ from Wordsworth?

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His view of poetic diction

36
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Who did Charles Lamb collaborate with to do what?

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Mary Lamb on a children’s version of Shakespeare’s work

37
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What is the primary mood of Lambs essay?

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Nostalgic daydreaming

38
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What name does Lamb decide to write under so he wouldn’t embarrass his brother, an employee of the South Sea House?

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Elia

39
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Who admired Lambs writing and why?

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Wordsworth because he saw lamb as a kindred spirit and his essays a literary world similar to his own

40
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What is the major theme of “Old China”?

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The superiority of the old days of youth and poverty

41
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What was inspired by the historical event of the Peterloo massacre?

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English in 1819

42
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Why is William good wins position against matrimony ironic?

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Because of his displeasure when his own daughter ran off with Shelley

43
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What is Shelley’s elegy on the death of Keats?

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Adonais

44
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“Ozymandis” has what absurdities?

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> Legs which support nothing
An empire which is now only desert
The highest part of the statue is now the lowest

45
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What is the theme and most famous rhetorical question in English literature for “Ode to the West Wind”?

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If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

46
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What does Section IV of “Ode to the West Wind” reveal?

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Shelleys agreement with the romantic belief in the superiority of childhood innocence and communion with nature

47
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What was John Keats first unquestionable great poem?

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“On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”

48
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In “On First Looking into Chapman Homer” what is the controlling imagery?

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Explorers

49
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I’n “The Eve of St. Agnes” who is the one who helps Porphyro carry out his plan?

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Angela

50
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In “The Eve of St. Agnes” what brings Madeline and Porphyro back to reality?

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The storm

51
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What happens to Keat and his brother?

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They both eventually die of tuberculosis

52
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What is Utilitarianism?

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the goodness or badness of an action based on its production of happiness

53
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What does Adam Smiths policy on Laissez Faire say?

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Advocated the role of No interference in business by government

54
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What is the Byronic Hero characterized as?

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Arrogance, anguish, sullenness, solitude, self-will and rebellion

55
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What was the mock heroic work that emphasized Byron’s disillusionment with his own lifestyle?

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Don Juan

56
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In his work “On This Day” the lines “then look around, and choose thy ground, /and take thy rest uses what and how?

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The poetic device caesuras as the speaker attempts to achieve a sense of finality and resignation

57
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In “She Walks in Beauty” what poetic device is used and why?

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Simile - to govern the imagery in stanza 1

58
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In “She Walks in Beauty” the lyric is a compliment to who?

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The women whose physical beauty is equaled by and indeed an expression of her beauty of soul

59
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Why was “Childe Herolds Pilgrimage” written?

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As a result of Byron’s travel to the Mediterranean from 1809-111

60
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What was English 1819 inspired by?

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the historical event of the Peterloo massacre

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