Romanticism Flashcards
Romanticism Dates
1798-1832
Motto for French Revolution and lifestyle
“Liberty, Equality, & Brotherhood”
Very Strict
1789-1799
reigned from restoration to romanticism; Lost 13 colonies from America; people did not like him because of strict rules; First in his bloodline to not have a prime-minister
George III
Year George III was declared insane
1811
year George III died
1820
Thousand of French aristocrats and middle class citizens killed; England feared it would happen to them; Poor class tired of problems and blamed upper class
Reign of Terror
Dates for reign of terror
1793-1794
Tory prime Minister; hoped to ease situation between France and Britain with War; Persuaded parliament to pass ACT OF UNION
William Pitt
Act of Union states
Ireland would be represented in the British Parliament and all the British Isles would be joined as Great Britain
Took over French government, established control over continental Europe, lost in the Battle Trafalgar; Invaded Russia
Napoleon Bonaparte
2 major things Napoleon did
Got rid of democracy and Established autocracy
Named himself emperor
How did Napoleon lose to Russia?
To Cold in 1812
Location Napoleon was exiled to
Island of Elba
Determined Europe’s fate after defeating Napoleon and the French Military
Congress of Vienna
Battle in which Napoleon experience final defeat in 1815
Battle of Waterloo
Policy that the economy operates best with zero government interference; Literally means in French “allow to do” Gives people options
Laissez Faire
unemployed factory workers that went around to various countries smashing factory equipment
Luddite Riots
Parliament’s reaction to Luddite riots
outlawed destroying equipment
Reason for the Luddite Riots
machinery taking jobs
Early romantic writers
Willim Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Scottish writers
Robert Burns and Walter Scott
Lake Poets
William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, Robert Southey, Dorothy Wordsworth
Romantic Essayists
Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Thomas De Quincey
How was Jane Austen different
Stuck neoclassical style of restoration, and wrote novels of manners
New Generation romantics
Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, John Keats
Was in the dragoon, considered one of the best poets, studied at cambridge, collaborated with wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
constantly Bullied, Studied at Oxford, mary shelley was wife
Percy Shelley
Poem about a corrupted ego ruler who was arrogant. Said he was going to be the greatest king ever
Ozymandias
Metaphorical poem asking a bird to teach the speaker how to sing and be beautiful
Ode to a Skylark
Poem that describers the beauty of autumn. Asks to lift up his spirit
Ode to a West Wind
poem that makes fun of George the 3rd, hopefully he will be dead soon, ruining everything
Sonnet England in 1819
Read the Bible often, was catholic, parents put him through Drawing school, was engraver and artist
William Blake
Poem comparing Jesus Christ as the lamb; question and answer type
The Lamb
Had many girlfriends and worked on a farm, most successful Scottish poet
Robert Burns
Bug crawling on a wealthy woman ; don’t look outward not inward
to a louse
Athletic, had limp, fell in love with cousin, died of tuberculosis
Lord Byron
Reflection on all missed opportunity
On this day of my 36th year
he and his mother died from tuberculosis, apprenticed a surgeon, abandoned medicine for poetic dreams, died at 25, apothecary
John Keats
jealous of a flower that is free, happy, and has a long life,speaker blacks out in the woods from smoking weed
Ode to a nightingale
