William Wordsworth

The Romantic Period

“poetry should express, in genuine language, experience as filtered through personal emotion and imagination; the truest experience was to be found in nature.” 

- Preface to Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Romantic Era Authors

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Multiple Choice

The Romantic Period began roughly around 1798 and lasted until 1837. Which of the following is NOT true about the influences of the Romantic Movement as a literary shift during that time?

• Intellectually, it marked a violent reaction to the Enlightenment.

• Politically, it was inspired by the revolutions in America and France and popular wars of independence in Poland, Spain, Greece, and elsewhere.

• Emotionally, it expressed an extreme assertion of the self and the value of individual experience, together with the sense of the infinite and transcendental.

• Socially, it championed progressive causes, though when these were frustrated it often produced a bitter, gloomy, and despairing outlook.

• None of the options

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ROMANTIC ERA

• Common Man and Childhood over Urban Sophistication

• Emotions over Reason 

•  Nature over Artificial

• The Individual over Society

• Imagination over Logic

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Multiple Choice

William Wordsworth, together with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, brought out a volume of verse, Lyrical Ballads, which _______ English Romanticism.

• started

• ended

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

- used common, everyday language to express profound images and ideas

“Water, water, everywhere,

And all the boards did shrink;

Water, water, everywhere,

Nor any drop to drink.”― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Multiple Select

These three (3) authors are the second generation of Romantic poets.

• Lord George Gordon Byron (Don Juan)

• Percy Bysshe Shelley (Music When Soft Voices Die)

• Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)

• John Keats (Music when Soft Voices Die)

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