Romantics context

Question 1

What is romanticism?

Answer 1

• movement
• intellectual orientation
• attitude

Question 2

When and where was Romanticism prominent?

Answer 2

western civilisation from late 18th century to mid 19th cenutry

Question 3

What can the romanticism movement be seen as?

Answer 3

The rejection of precepts (general and established rules) of order

Question 4

What was late 18th cenutry, neo - classicalism a reaction against?

Answer 4

Enlightenment and rationalism and Physical material

Question 5

What did the Romantics emphasise?

Answer 5

• the individual
• the subjective
• the irrational
• the imaginative
• the personal
• the emotional
• the visonary

Question 6

What did the Romantics celebrate?

Answer 6

Intense emotions, imagination and the beauty of nature

Question 7

What was the deemed appreciation of?

Answer 7

The beauties of nature

Question 8

What was the creative spirit more important than?

Answer 8

strict adherence to formal rules and traditional procedures

Question 9

What did the romantics want to experience life through?

Answer 9

emotions and sense rather than through detached and intellectual reasoning

Question 10

What were the major themes of romanticisms?

Answer 10

• relentless
• brooding
• rebellion against authority
• interchange with nature
• pursuit of ideal love
• the power of the visionary
• imagination
• untamed spirit of freedom

Question 11

What and who was the 1st wave of romanticism and the quote?

Answer 11

William Blake - the religious sublime “spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”

Question 12

What and who was the 2nd wave of romanticism?

Answer 12

• keats
• Shelley
• Byron

They focused their appreciation on the aesthetic beauty and personal catharsis

Question 13

What is said about the 2nd wave of romanticism?

Answer 13

English Romantic Poetry had reached its zenith (most successful) - in context most celebrated Romantic poets were at the height of their creative output