English Literature Unit 7
The man who possessed the greatest mind of the Romantic Movement
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The five poets who dominated the Romantic Age
Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats
The type of essay developed during the age
familiar essay
Three types of novels produced during the Romantic Age
Gothic, historical, manners
The perfecter of the novel of manners
Jane Austen
The three Lake Poets
Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey
The French Romantic writer who influenced the views of many of the Romatics
Rousseau
The greatest English poet since Milton
Wordsworth
The world’s supreme poet of nature
Wordsworth
Coleridge’s masterpiece
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Coleridge’s dream fragment describing China
Kubla Kahn
the Romantic poet who wrote, “the Story of the Three Bears.”
Southey
The greatest English lyricist
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The only major Romantic poet of humble birth
Keats
The man who initiated the Gothic novel
Horace Walpole
A characteristic that pervades all of Scott’s works
Scottish or English history
Scott’s three greates poems
Lay of the Last Minstrels, Marmion, Lady of the Lake
The authors of the Tales from Shakespeare
Charles and Mary Lamb
Did the head or the heart rule Romantic literature?
heart
What important notion was important to Romantic literature because it allowed readers to accept reading something that was not factual or real?
suspension of reality
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,”–that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Ode on a Grecian Urn by Keats
“If this belief from heaven be sent, If such be Nature’s holy plan, Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?
Lines Written in Early Spring by Wordsworth
The belief that God is not separate from nature but that nature is God.
pantheism
Romantic Age literature celebrated the common man or the king?
common man