A Beka English Literature Romantic Age – Flashcards
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when did the Romantic Age of English literature begin?
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1798
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one of the most important pieces of English literature criticism
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Lyrical Ballads
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world's supreme poet of nature
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Wordsworth
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one of the greatest poet since Milton
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Wordsworth
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possessed the greatest mind of the Romantic Movement
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Coleridge
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primary literature of the Romantic Period
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Poetry
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five primary poets of Romantic Movement
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Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelly, Keats
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three types of novels created during Romantic Movement
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gothic, historical, and novel of manners
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perfected novel of manners
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Jane Austen
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made historical novel famous
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Walter Scott
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standard emphasis for Romantic Period
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feelings
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four characteristics of the literature of Romantic Period
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mysterious characters, fantastic dreams, unearthly exotic medieval settings, longing for the unattainable
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Why are Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey called the Lake Poets?
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They lived in Lake District.
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three reasons that Coleridge gave for why the common people had clear minds and speech
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owned their own land and worked hard to keep it, solid religious education, Bible gave people a love for nature as God's creation
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characteristics of the familiar essay
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informal, personalized, emphasis on individual tastes, light humor/wit
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very good friend of Coleridge
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Wordsworth
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one of the most accomplished and influential poets
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Wordsworth
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critics believed what work of Wordsworth's was his greatest
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The Prelude
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"Expostulation and Reply"
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Wordsworth
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"Tinturn Abbey"
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Wordsworth
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"I wandered Lonely as a Cloud" written by who
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Wordsworth
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"To a Sky-Lark"
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Wordsworth
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one of the leaders of the Romantic Movement
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Coleridge
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lectures on Shakespeare helped renew interest in Shakespeare
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Coleridge
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"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
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Coleridge
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theme of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
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love that binds together all created things
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opium addict
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Coleridge
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interested in German philosophy
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Coleridge
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"The Story of the Three Bears"
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Southey
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"The Battle of Blenheim"
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Southey
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real name of Lord Byron
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George Gordon
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Lord Byron's first work to get him recognition
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"English Bards and Scotch Reviewers"
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sat in the House of Lords
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Lord Byron
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Lord Byron's greatest poem
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"Don Juan"
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"When We Two Parted"
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Lord Byron
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"Maid of Athens, Ere We Part"
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Lord Byron
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one of the most fervent rebels
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Percy Shelly
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social outcast
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Percy Shelly
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fighter of oppression
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Percy Shelly
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believed education was the means to freedom
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Percy Shelly
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believed oppression was being made to do anything you didn't want to do
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Percy Shelly
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"Ode to the West Wind"
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Percy Shelly
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"Prometheus Unbound"
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Percy Shelly
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"The Necessity of Atheism"
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Percy Shelly
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"To A Skylark" (fashioned after Wordsworth's)
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Percy Shelly
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"A Dirge"
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Percy Shelly
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"Ode on a Grecian Urn"
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John Keats
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most famous ode in English
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"Ode on a Grecian Urn"
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believed art would inspire and console man by offering him a glimpse of his higher destiny
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John Keats
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pursued beauty and truth through imagination and feelings
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John Keats
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apprenticed as an apothecary surgeon
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John Keats
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lived in poverty, guardian blocked his inheritance
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John Keats
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"Rondeau"
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Leigh Hunt
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leader of the "Cockney School"
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Leigh Hunt
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introduction of colloquial style in his poems
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Leigh Hunt
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strong supporter of Shelly and Keats
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Leigh Hunt
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Irish poet remembered for Irish lyrics
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Thomas Moore
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most popular figure after Lord Byron
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Thomas Moore
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"Come, Ye Disconsolate"
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Thomas Moore
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"Ivanhoe and Rebecca"
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Walter Scott
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had polio as a child
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Walter Scott
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translated works from German to English
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Walter Scott
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"The Wizard of the North"
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Walter Scott
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reason why success of Jane Austen hurt Scott
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his works were supposedly thrown together / not good
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created historical novel and public's perspective of Scottish Highlands and culture
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Walter Scott
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"Marmion"
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Walter Scott
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"Waverly"
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Walter Scott
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published under the pen name "The Author of Waverly"
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Walter Scott
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"Schubert's Ave Maria"
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Walter Scott
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wrote during Romanic Era but was not a Romantic writer
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Jane Austen
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female characters showed rational moderation
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Jane Austen
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3 favorite influences of Jane Austen
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Samuel Johnson, William Cowper, and Fanny Burney
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Jane Austen's strength in writing
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her characters
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published several works under the pen name _______ (a woman)
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Mr. Egerton
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refined and simplified English novel, true reflection of English life
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Jane Austen
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one of the first novelists to chronicle the lives of the common people
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Jane Austen
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"Pride and Prejudice"
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Jane Austen
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lived with his sister who killed their mother with a kitchen knife
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Charles Lamb
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whose pen name was Elia
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Charles Lamb
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"Prince of English Essayists"
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Charles Lamb
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best-known collection of essays by Charles Lamb
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"Old China"
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"Essays of Elia"
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Charles Lamb
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leader of the movement to make the literary hymn, wrote 57 hymns
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Reginald Heber
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"Holy, Holy, Holy"
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Reginald Heber
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"God that Madest Earth and Heaven"
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Reginald Heber
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"From Greenland's Icy Mountain"
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Reginald Heber
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wrote three volumes of hymns (765 in all), was a literary and musical genius
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Thomas Kelly
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"Praise the Savior"
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Thomas Kelly
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"Angels from the Realms of Glory"
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James Montgomery
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"Go to Dark Gethsemane"
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James Montgomery
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strong supporter of missionaries, wrote 400 hymns and 3 books
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James Montgomery
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Anglican minister, wrote 80 hymns
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Henry Lyte
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"Abide With Me"
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Henry Lyte
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"Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken"
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Henry Lyte
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"Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven"
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Henry Lyte
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belief that God is everywhere / in nature
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Pantheism
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"Give, oh give me back my heart"
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"Maid of Athens, Ere We Part"
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"If winter comes, can spring be far behind?"
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"Ode to the West Wind"
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"Oh! what a tangled web we weave/ When first we practice to deceive."
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"Marmion"
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
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"Pride and Prejudice""
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"...I wandered lonely as a cloud, that floats on high o'er vales and hills..."
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"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
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"Nor less I deem that there are Powers...that we can feed this mind of ours in a wise passiveness."
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"Expostulation and Reply"
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"Water, water, every where and all the boards did shrink; water, water, every where nor any drop to drink."
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"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
