English Romanticism

What did the Romantics prefer?

• beauty of nature

• industrial towns

• wealth and power

• travel opportunities

What is typical of Romanticism?

• Stress on individual thoughts and personal feelings

• Stress on universal thoughts and ideas

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge published ...

• I wandered lonely as a cloud

• Lyrical Ballads

• Ivanhoe

Who was regarded as "the father of British Romanticism"?

• Samual Taylor Coleridge

• Sir Walter Scott

• William Wordsworth

• William Shakespeare

What is Romanticism?

• A literary, artistic, and philosophical movement that rejected the industrialism of its time.

• A literary movement that championed spending time in the natural world.

• A belief that traditional forms and structures are confining and artificial.

• All of the above.

Which one of these would NOT be characteristic of Romanticism?

• Going with your heart instead of your head

• Believing that things will all work out if you just believe

• Looking at recent research and data numbers to make a decision

• Moving to the woods for more quiet time because the city is too busy

Which one of these would be characteristic of Romanticism?

• Going with your heart instead of your head

• Believing that things will all work out if you just believe

• Looking at recent research and data numbers to make a decision

• Moving to the woods for more quiet time because the city is too busy

Most writers during the Romantic time period

• abandoned wit and satire and focused on emotions and nature

• abandoned nature and emotions and focused on wit and satire

• died of starvation

• didn't write about nature

Romantics favored ______________ instead of reason and science.

• a. sentiment and idealistic passion

• b. epics

• c. Geoffrey Chaucer

• d. tales of chivalry

What is the main subject matter of Romanticism?

• Quest for beauty

• Escapist literature

• External nature

• All of the above