Romantics

Question 1

IR: Enclose Laws

Answer 1

land which was for community free use now turned into large private farms
lead to inc in food production, peasants into city to find work

Question 2

what did the development of capitalism lead to?

Answer 2

rise of a bourgeoisie

Question 3

French Revolution

Answer 3

dissatisfied with monarchy, executed king

Question 4

American Revolution

Answer 4

13 colonies broke from under British rule bc of unfair policies about taxes, etc.

Question 5

Gordon Riots

Answer 5

Protestants angered by the “Roman Catholic Relief Act”
Blake caught in the destroying of Newgate Prison

Question 6

position of women?

Answer 6

degraded in the Enlightenment, Blake was besties with Mary Woolstencroft

Question 7

why was Wordsworth concerned?

Answer 7

the elitism of earlier poets used fancy words that were inaccessible to wc, poet as a prophet

Question 8

what were the first gen of poets? (Blake and Wordsworth)

Answer 8

the Lake poets

Question 9

how did Lady Caroline Lamb describe Byron?

Answer 9

“mad, bad and dangerous to know”

Question 10

what is the Byronic hero?

Answer 10

brooding, melancholic and disillusioned with life, solitary and mysterious

Question 11

Blake was critical of ?

Answer 11

religion
but greatly admired Milton

Question 12

Keats - negative capability

Answer 12

its okay and good not to know everything and understand every complexity of the universe

Question 13

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Answer 13

“man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains”

Question 14

Puritan Beliefs

Answer 14

opposite to Jaques, children are born sinful and need saving

Question 15

the Sublime

Answer 15

nature is so vast and powerful that it inspires both awe and fear

Question 16

Pantheism

Answer 16

God is everywhere, particularly in nature

Question 17

Blake’s poems were categorised into what?

Answer 17

Songs of Innocence, Experience

Question 18

prostitution

Answer 18

“the oldest profession”
rife syphilis

Question 19

Wordsworth: the Pastoral

Answer 19

grew up in the Lakes
French Rev
came home and realised that to be happy and uncorrupted, everyone should live in the country

Question 20

Lyrical Ballads

Answer 20

Wordsworth

Question 21

how was Wordsworth’s radical ideas developed?

Answer 21

took a walking tour of France, saw lots of suffering between 1792 - 1793

Question 22

when did Byron move as a kid?

Answer 22

aged 10, moved into Newstead Abbey and inherited the barony

Question 23

where did Byron attend?

Answer 23

Cambridge

Question 24

how was Byron’s lifestyle described?

Answer 24

hedonistic

Question 25

Byron’s relationships

Answer 25

sexually fluid, having relations with men and women

Question 26

Byron and Greek politics

Answer 26

after being exiled from Britain, he joined the Greek War of Independance, wanted to die heroically

Question 27

Byron’s death

Answer 27

fever

Question 28

Shelley relationships

Answer 28

ran away with Mary
ditched Harriet Westbrook
no contact with his kids

Question 29

Shelley: Peterloo Massare

Answer 29

60 000 Manchester civilians meeting to hear speeches on political reform
17 people died

Question 30

why was Shelley kicked out of Oxford?

Answer 30

The Necessity of Atheism published

Question 31

Keats’ early life?

Answer 31

mam and dad both died (riding accident and TB) when he was 15
surgical apprentice - qualified but didn’t practice medicine, turned to poetry instead

Question 32

how can HT: E be described?

Answer 32

didactic : politically explicit

Question 33

the regular rhythm of HT:I may suggest what?

Answer 33

childhood simplicity
unchanging / consistency of church and HT processions

Question 34

HT:E experiences a breakdown in rhyme bc?

Answer 34

experience

Question 35

the regular rhythm of HT:E shows what?

Answer 35

constrained
unchanging experience of poverty