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S1: Introduction, Romanticism Flashcards

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What are characteristics of romanticism? (7)

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  • small human beings vs. Great nature
  • turn away from Enlightenment‘s focus on rationality and classicist aesthetics
  • interest in the unusual and irregular
  • emphasis on emotions (individual=emotional being), the irrational, the uncanny
  • focus on the individual and its experience
  • belief in special „prophet-like“ nature of poet
  • nature becomes a central idea
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Whats the historical background of romanticism?

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  • the French Revolution
  • the Industrial Revolution
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The French Revolution

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  • Storm of the bastille (1789, beginning of French Revolution)
  • reign of terror (1793-1794, series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to revolutionary fervour)
  • Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815)
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What are characteristics of the Industrial Revolution? (4)

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  • agricultural society - industrial society
  • new poor working class
  • luddities (rebellion against mechanical looms)
  • Peterborough massacre (1819)
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Edmund Burke (1757)
What’s the beautiful? (7)

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  • Well formed and aesthetically pleasing
  • love
  • harmony
  • smoothness
  • delicacy
  • calmness
  • neo-classical
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Edmund Burke (1757)
What’s the sublime?

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The sublime is often associated with feelings of awe or even fear when one encounters something grand, vast or overwhelming. Often associated with romantic literature, the sublime can be found in the romantic poets descriptions of nature as something that inspires feelings of awe.

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William Galpin (1782)
What’s the picturesque?

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„Like a picture“, rustic, variety of landscape and colours, appreciation of „untouched“ nature

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Who are romantic poets?

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  • William Blake (1757-1827)
  • William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
  • John Keats (1795-1821)
  • George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
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Who is the first generation of romantic poets?

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  • William Blake
  • William Wordsworth
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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By what is the first generation influenced?

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French Revolution

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First Generation:
1. sympathies with ………., but later ………..
2. turn to ……….
3. interest in ……………… (Wordsworth/Coleridge, ………..)

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  1. revolutionary ideas, but later disillusionment
  2. nature
  3. folk poetry and songs (Lyrical Ballds)
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Who are the lake poets?

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Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey

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Who is the second generation of romantic poets?

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  • John Keats
  • George Gordon Byron
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Second Generation:
1. felt that the First Generation had „……..“
2. Anti-………..
3. not conforming to ………..
4. „……“ and excessive lifestyle
5. interest in ………

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  1. sold out
  2. Anti-establishment
  3. societies rules
  4. immoral
  5. darker topics (gothic)
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What were William Blake‘s professions?

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Poet, painter, visionary and printmaker

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What an important work of William Blake?

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„Songs of Innocence and Experience“ (1789/94)
- combination of text and illustrations
- two parts: innocence and experience
- simple lyrical form

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„Songs of innocence and experience“: What does it criticise?

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  • child labour
  • slavery
  • oppression
  • negative influence of the church
18
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Where was William Wordsworth born?

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Lake District, part of the lake poets

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William Wordsworth:
1. Initial admiaration of the ………
2. increasingly ……..
3. ……… as healing force
4. strong connection between poet and ………

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  1. French Revolution
  2. apolitical
  3. nature
  4. nature
20
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What are William Wordsworth biggest works?

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  • The Prelude
  • Lyrical Ballads (together with Coleridge)
21
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
1. strong interest in philosophy and ………
2. introspection, ……. (=…..)

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  1. utopian ideas
  2. dreams (= opium abuse)
22
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What are Samuel Taylor Coleridge‘s major works?

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  • Rime of the Ancient Mariner (LB)
  • Frost at Midnight (LB)
  • Kubla Khan
  • Christabel
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Lyrical Ballads:
1. most poems by …….., only four by ………
2. preface = …………

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  1. Wordsworth, Coleridge
  2. manifesto of Romantic poetry
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Whats a diction?

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the way someone pronounces words

25
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Whats a deity?

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God or goddess

26
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What are characteristics of neoclassical poetry?

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  • poetic diction, different from everyday speech
  • elevated and intellectual subject matter
  • depiction of allegorical figures, deities, etc.
  • focus on order, moderation and rationality
  • focus on form (heroic couplet)
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How is the language in the preface to Lyrical Ballads?

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„A selection of language really used by men“
BUT
„To throw over them a certain colouring of imagination“
Language „purified from what appear to be its real defects“

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Whats the subject of the preface to Lyrical Ballads?

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About „incidents and situations in common life“

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What gets depicted in the preface to Lyrical Ballads?

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  • children
  • farmers
  • poor people
  • mad people
  • etc.
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Whats the focus of the preface to Lyrical Ballads?

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Focus on essential passion of the heart

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Whats the form of the preface to Lyrical Ballads?

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Freer form

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Preface to Lyrical Ballads:
What is a poet?
A poet has a ….

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… more lively sensibility
… more enthusiasm and tenderness
… greater knowledge of human nature
… a more comprehensive soul
… rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life
… contemplates similar volitions and passion in the going-on of the universe
… ability of contouring up in himself passions

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Volition

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Free will

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Lyrical Ballads:
How is a poet created?

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  • spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
  • emotions recollected in tranquility
  • initial subject/emotion is recreated in poet‘s mind
  • a state of enjoyment
  • reader experiences a complex feeling of delight
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Percy Bysshe Shelley:
1. unconventional and scandalous …….
2. drowns of the coast of ….. in 1822
3. ….. inspired writing

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  1. private life
  2. Viareggio
  3. political
36
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What is the poem „Ozymandias“ (by Coleridge) about?

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Discovery and transportation of the statue to the British Museum

37
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Of what name is „Ozymandias“ a variation from?

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Variation of the Greek throne name of Ramesses II

38
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Whats the rhyme scheme of Ozymandias?

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Sonnet, ABAB CDCE EFEF

39
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In the Prelude to Lyrical Ballads, Coleridge and Wordsworth outlined their new approach to poetry that opposed the former Neoclassical style. List three ways in which their style contrasted with the neoclassical style.

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They aimed to:
- write like real people spoke (as opposed to specific poetic diction)
- write about everyday subject matter (as opposed to the highly intellectual subject matter of NC)
- focus on feelings and emotions (as opposed to the rationality and order of NC)
- experiment more with form (in comparison NC)

40
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The uncanny

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the psychological experience of an event or individual as not simply mysterious, but frightening in a way that feels oddly familiar

41
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The Picturesque

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the charm of discovering the landscape in its natural state

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