Romantic + Victorian

Question 1

Lake Poets

Answer 1

19th century
The three main figures of what has become known as the Lakes School were William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey.

Question 2

Satanic School

Answer 2

19th century
The Satanic School was a name applied by Robert Southey to a class of writers headed by Byron and Shelley, because, according to him, their productions were "characterized by a Satanic spirit of pride and audacious impiety".

Question 3

Cockney School

Answer 3

1817 (19th century)

Keats and Leigh Hunt

Question 4

Dark Romantics

Answer 4

19th century

The American form of this sensibility centered on the writers Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville.

Question 5

Transcendentalism

Answer 5

Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 6

Transcendentalist Magazine

Answer 6

The Dial

Question 7

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

Answer 7

William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens, and Thomas Woolner

Question 8

Aestheticism

Answer 8

19 century

Walter Pater, Harold Bloom, Oscar Wilde

Question 9

Fireside Poets

Answer 9

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Question 10

Oxford Movement

Answer 10

John Henry Newman and Edward Bouverie Pusey. Other well-known Tractarians included John Keble, Charles Marriott, Richard Froude, Robert Wilberforce, Isaac Williams and William Palmer.

Question 11

Naturalism

Answer 11

Emile Zola

Question 12

Impressionism

Answer 12

Impressionist literature is closely related to Symbolism, with its major exemplars being Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, and Verlaine. Authors such as Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, and Joseph Conrad have written works that are Impressionistic in the way that they describe, rather than interpret, the impressions, sensations and emotions that constitute a character’s mental life.

Question 13

Symbolists

Answer 13

The principal Symbolist poets include the Frenchmen Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Jules Laforgue, Henri de Régnier, René Ghil, and Gustave Kahn;

Question 14

Imagism

Answer 14

Imagist publications appearing between 1914 and 1917 featured works by many of the most prominent modernist figures in poetry and other fields, including Ezra Pound, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Ford Madox Ford, William Carlos Williams, F. S. Flint, and T. E. Hulme.

Question 15

Surrealism

Answer 15

1924, Andre Breton, Surrealist Manifesto