Romantics

Question 1

Rob Roy (1817)

Answer 1

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

Question 2

“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan/A stately pleasure-dome decree:”

Answer 2

Kubla Kahn, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

Question 3

Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1817, Sandition unfinished, Lady Susan 1794! (Love and Friendship film by White Stillman, Beckinsale)

Answer 3

Jane Austen (1775-1817)

Question 4

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

Answer 4

Auld Lang Syne, Address to a Haggis (“Great Chieftain o’ the Puddin-race!”), My Heart’s In the Highlands, My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose, “the greatest Scot”

Question 5

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)

Answer 5

Mary Shelley (1797-1851)

Question 6

Adonais: an Elegy on the Death of John Keats (1821)

Answer 6

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1822)

Question 7

Ivanhoe (1819)

Answer 7

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) - robin hood!

Question 8

Pride and Prejudice (1813)

Answer 8

Jane Austen (1775-1817) - Darcy and the Bennets - Kiera Knightly/Matthew MacFayden 2005 film, Colin Firth BBC series 1995

Question 9

“The Corsair” (1814)

Answer 9

Lord Byron (1788-1824)

Question 10

Songs of Innocence (1789), Songs of Experience (1794, “Tyger tyger burning bright”)

Answer 10

William Blake (1757-1827)

Question 11

“Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink”

Answer 11

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

Question 12

ordinary language “really used by men”, famous definition of poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility” (1802)

Answer 12

prelude to Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth & Coleridge

Question 13

Don Juan (1819-1824)

Answer 13

Lord Byron (1788-1824)

Question 14

“Ode to a Nightengale” and “Ode to a Grecian Urn” (1819)

Answer 14

John Keats (1795-1821)

Question 15

Emma (1816)

Answer 15

Jane Austen (1775-1817), Gwyneth Paltrow ‘96 film, 2020 Anya

Question 16

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1822)

Answer 16

The Necessity of Atheism (1811), “Ozymandias” (1818), “If Winter Comes, can Spring be far Behind? (1819), “Hail to Thee, Blithe Spirit” (1819), “Music, When Soft Voices Die” (1821), Adonais: an Elegy on the Death of John Keats (1821), ‘Defense of Poetry” (1821 - “poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world”), “died in a boating accident in Italy at 29, close with Byron

Question 17

Mansfield Park (1814)

Answer 17

Jane Austen (1775-1817)

Question 18

Mary Shelley (1797-1851)

Answer 18

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)

Question 19

The Lady of the Lake (poem, 1810)

Answer 19

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

Question 20

Lyrical Ballads w/Coleridge (1798, launched Romantic Age in English Lit, “Tintern Abbey”), Poems In Two Volumes (“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”/Daffodils 1807), The Prelude (1798-1850, autobiographical)

Answer 20

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Question 21

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Answer 21

Lyrical Ballads w/Coleridge (1798, launched Romantic Age in English Lit, “Tintern Abbey”), Poems In Two Volumes (“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”/Daffodils 1807), The Prelude (1798-1850, autobiographical)

Question 22

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

Answer 22

Scottish, Rob Roy 1817, Ivanhoe 1819 (Robin Hood!), The Lady of the Lake (poem, 1810)

Question 23

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

Answer 23

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (“Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink”) Christabel, and Kubla Khan (“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan/A stately pleasure-dome decree:”)

Question 24

“She Walks in Beauty” (1814)

Answer 24

Lord Byron (1788-1824)

Question 25

Lord Byron (1788-1824)

Answer 25

The Corsair, Don Juan, She Walks in Beauty, Irish Avatar (supporting Irish independence), actually George Gordon, spent much time w/Shelleys in Italy, died in Greek War of Independence and is a hero there, daughter Ada Lovelace (computing forebear), idolized Napoleon, club foot, detested the Lake Poets, opposed Elgin Marbles removal, “Byromania,” “Byronic Hero,” SODOMY

Question 26

William Blake (1757-1827)

Answer 26

Songs of Innocence (1789), Songs of Experience (1794) w/”Tyger tyger burning bright,” iconoclast, saw visions, visual artist, illustrated his poems, Red Dragon/Hannibal inspiration for Dolarhyde, His Dark Materials, Dead Man Depp character is “William Blake”, opposed to organized religion, sexual repression

Question 27

Wordsworth & Coleridge

Answer 27

Lake Poets, Lyrical Ballads 1798

Question 28

prelude to Lyrical Ballads

Answer 28

ordinary language “really used by men”, famous definition of poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility” (1802) Wordsworth & Coleridge

Question 29

“Music, When Soft Voices Die” (1821)

Answer 29

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1822)

Question 30

Jane Austen (1775-1817)

Answer 30

anonymously published Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813, best), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1816, 2nd best). Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1817, Sandition unfinished, Lady Susan (1794, Love and Friendship film by White Stillman, Beckinsale)

Question 31

“A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever” (1818, Endymion)

Answer 31

John Keats (1795-1821)

Question 32

Sense and Sensibility (1811)

Answer 32

Jane Austen (1775-1817) - Dashwoods - 1995 film Winslet/Emma Thompson/Rickman/Hugh Grant

Question 33

Auld Lang Syne, Address to a Haggis (“Great Chieftain o’ the Puddin-race!”), My Heart’s In the Highlands, My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose, best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, “the greatest Scot”

Answer 33

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

Question 34

Ozymandias (1818)

Answer 34

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1822)

Question 35

Lake Poets

Answer 35

Wordsworth & Coleridge

Question 36

John Keats (1795-1821)

Answer 36

“Ode to a Nightengale,” Ode to a Grecian Urn,” “A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever” - his work is “heavily loaded with sensualities,” died of tuberculosis at 26, close with Shelley