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Romanticism Flashcards

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When did Romanticism take place?

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At the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century

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Define Romanticisim

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New movement in literature which implied the radical transformation of aesthetics and political principles. Reaction against Enlightment and rationalisim of 18th century

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Name 7 characteristics of Romantic poets

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Imaginative freedom
Expresses feelings of man in solitude
Tendency to be inward looking
Responded vividly to natural environment
Use language with more freedom and informality
Affected by French revolution
Deeply interested in problems of growth and process

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Conception of Romantic Poet

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Artist indiferent by nature to the crude wordliness and materialism of politics and social affairs. Devoted to more substantial sphere of natural beauty and personal feeling

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Lasting effect of French Revolution

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Inspire European mind with belief that change is historically inevitable and static order unatural. Imbued modern ideas of democracy, nationalism and equality

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Who are the most important political thinkers of the time?

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Burke with Reflections on the Revolution of France (1790)

Thomas Paine with The Rights of Man (1791)

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Who are the poets of the First Generation?

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William Blake
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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William Blake was born in ______ and died in _____

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1757-1827

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William Wordsworth was born in ______ and died in _____

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1770-1850

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Samuel Tylor Coleridge was born in ______ and died in _____

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1772-1834

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Oficial beginning of Romanticism

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1798 witht the publication of Lyrical Ballads

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Characteristics of poets of the First Generation

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Took refuge in nature, the ballads from the past and the exotic from the foreign
Abolishment of regular meter, natural linguistic expression
Release of imagination, reviving the short poem
Cultivation of quatrain

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Key points about Blake

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Pioneer of Romanticism
Turned against beliefs of his time: faith in nature, reason and society
Used popular stanzas
Advocated for reign of intuition, insipiration and imagination

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Blake’s works

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Songs of Innocence

Songs of Experience

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Key points about Wordsworth

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More natural and less intelectula language, that of ordinary men and women
Importance of imagination, intuition and feeling
Only in nature can we find peace, truth and beauty
Broadside ballad

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Wordsworth’s works

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Lyrical Ballads

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Key points about Coleridge

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Fond of mystery, the supernatural and the Gothic
His traditional ballad was legendary and magical
Poems show influence of German legends and ballads
Belief of oneness of universe and unity of man’s soul with the divine

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Coleridge’s works

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Kubla Khan

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Who are the poets of the Second Generation?

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Lord Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Keats

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Lord Byron was born in ______ and died in _____

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1788-1824

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Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in ______ and died in _____

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1792-1822

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John Keats was born in ______ and died in _____

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1798-1821

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Characteristics of poets of the Second Generation

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Died fairly young
Acted against British environment
Attracted to the south, Shelley and Keats died in Italy
Expressed disagreement against society of their time
Had arrogant, desperate living attitude
Despised established morality
Had their own aesthetic worries

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Key points about Lord Byron

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Quintessentially Romantic figure
Conception of poetic creation as emotional outlet
Creator of Byronic hero, male character who is gloomy, self-absorbed, passionate and non-conformist

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Byron’s works

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The Siege of Corinth
Childe Harold
Don Juan

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Key points about Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Most lyrical of romantic poets
Believed in perfectibility and goodness of human nature and longed for a world of true love
Poetry brings about moral good
Role of poet as legislator of mankind

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Shelley’s works

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A Defence of Poetry

Prometheus Unbound

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Key points about John Keats

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Poetry should be great and unobstrusive
Negative capability
Apostle of beauty, seeing it as the only source of truth and happines

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Keats’s works

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Odes

Ode to a Grecian Urn

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Romantic Novel

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Also influenced by French revolution, sprung as reaction against Classicism

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Key points about Sir Walter Scott

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Inventor and greatest expert on historical novel
Central theme of his novels is the clahs of cultures
Tried to create the atmophere of the past, portraying man in his public and social aspects

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Scott’s works

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Waverly

Ivanhoe

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