Romantic Literature

Romantic Period

• 1798-1838

• 1660-1798

• 1838-1900

During this time Parliament passed all of the following reforms except:

• Economic and religious freedoms were restored to Catholics.

• Slavery was abolished

• Voting rights were given to women.

Which was NOT a romantic composor?

• Schubert

• Mendelssohn

• Turner

All of the following were characteristics of the Romantic Age except:

• imagination over logic

• following classic structure

• free thinking

2 primary types of Romantic literature were poetry and ___

• gothic novels

• short stories

• supernatural essays

Believed man learned more from the common man

than from scholars:

• Coleridge

• Keats

• Shelley

• Wordsworth

most thorough rebel of all Romantics

• Coleridge

• Keats

• Shelley

• Wordsworth

wrote "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

• Coleridge

• Keats

• Shelley

• Wordsworth

free thinker but not a non-conformist

• Coleridge

• Keats

• Shelley

• Wordsworth

felt the world was against human joy

• Coleridge

• Keats

• Shelley

• Wordsworth