The Romantics AO3

Question 1

What book is about a torrid account of unrequited love, gloomy, meditative moonlight walks and suicide?

Answer 1

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Question 2

What was Percy Shelley’s response to the Peterloo Massacre?

Answer 2

His (Shelley’s) response to the Peterloo Massacre of 1819, for example, exhorted the protestors to “Rise like lions after slumber/In unvanquishable number.”

Question 3

Daniel Steady “But in many ways solitude…”

Answer 3

“But in many ways solitude for the Romantics was an escapist condition, a retreat from a rapidly changing world”

Question 4

Rousseau - masters and slaves quote

Answer 4

“Many a one believes himself the master of others and yet he is a greater slave than they”

Question 5

Rousseau - breastfeeding

Answer 5

“Let mothers deign to nurse their children and morals will reform themselves. Nature’s sentiments will be awakened in every heart and the state will be repeopled”

Question 6

Blake on opposites

Answer 6

“Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate are necessary to human existence”

Question 7

Andrew Green

Answer 7

Andrew Green “Blake is aware of the capacity of human beings and their mind to effect great good, but also create evil and pain”

Question 8

Robert Ready Lines Written In Early Spring

Answer 8

Lines Written In Early Spring - Final line is always shorter breaking iambic tetrameter which creates a sense of disharmony Robert Ready - “The blender is really the hearer, he who figures notes” slant rhyme mimics how humanity has fallen out of rhythm with nature

Question 9

Byron letters to Thomas Moore

Answer 9

Wrote to Thomas Moore “Yet I find the sword wearing out the scabbard though I have just turned the corner of 29”
“My way of life has fallen into great regularity”

Question 10

Ode on Melancholy F.R Levis

Answer 10

“represents one of the most obviously decadents developments of beauty - addiction”